Essi Avellan: Pale lemon color. An appealingly clean and fresh nose of cool fruitiness. Fresh peaches, yellow apple, and strawberries, with a light, toasty undernote. Zesty palate, with intense juicy fruit. Lovely creaminess to the mousse. Delicious, pure, and sweetly fruity finish. 91

Simon Field: Buckwheat color, a playful bead, and assertive aromatic; yeast, sourdough, then hints of baking powder; power on the palate maintains the assertive leitmotif, grip and Pinot red fruit in evidence, white chocolate and quinine; the acidity runs though the piece with an iron grip; stylistically this is faithful to its southern red-fruit origins and has gastronomic potential beyond any presumption of autolytic complexity. 89

Anthony Rose: Mid-gold, a tad shy in aroma, but fresh and subtly fragrant, with a hint of bruised apple and malty sweetness, this is rich and full-bodied, with nicely concentrated stone-fruit and apple flavors, an expansively textured creamy quality of bubbles, whose immediate fruit sweetness tapers gradually to savory, finishing with a light phenolic grip that adds to the feeling of balance and freshness. 92