Essi Avellan | Intense lemon color. Gorgeous, coffee- toned, burned sugar, and cotton-candy nose, with exotic fruit and baking spices. Sumptuous, super-silky palate, with oily smoothness and perfectly integrated crisp acidity. Truly elegant, creamy mousse, and pristinely pure fruit finish. Complete and complex. | 97

Simon Field | Viscose, jewel-like, soft, well-polished gold; or a brass instrument that has been played with great diligence over the years. Tight and still reticent on the nose; peonies, spring flowers, apples and pears; most attractive. A firm, quite compact palate, the savory inclinations assuming control, dried fruit and flowers soon to be subsumed by the intimations of development. | 95

Anthony Rose | Pale gold in color, subtly complex in aroma, with sweet almond and light toasty notes and a nutty autolytic character. This is a finely wrought vintage blend, showing richness of textured bubbles on the one hand, with excellent intensity of flavor and real finesse on the other, thanks to an expansive mousse of bubbles that explode in a profusion of full-flavored, mouthwateringly tangy fruitiness and taper stealthily toward a satisfyingly citrusy crispness. | 96