Essi Avellan: Deep lemon-gold. Mild, smooth, flower-dominant nose, with creamy-leesy complexity. Zesty, energetic, rich, opulent palate. Long and winey, with well-integrated light oak influence. Succulent palate, with some complexity but little elegance. 16

Simon Field: Gentle mousse, fine citric profile with a stone-fruit backdrop. Palate has phenolic grip from the oak, its potential underscored by a linear, crisp finish. Better to assess in a coupe of years… 15

Tom Stevenson: Rich, ripe, and oaky, and deliciously so. Oak in Champagne is not my style, but within the category, some oak fights and some does not, no matter the stylistic preferences of the taster, and here the oak does not fight. 17