Essi Avellan | Intense pale lemon-green color. Gorgeous toast-lined nose, on the reductive side, with gunpowder, lemon confit, pineapple, and white flowers. Great tension on the lightweight, zingy palate of fine fruit intensity. Creamy mousse, and silky texture on the long, purely fruity palate. Already sublime but will improve further. | 97

Simon Field | Modest luminosity, self-assured, bubbles composed, effortless. Then an immediately seductive nose: gunflint, apricot kernel, quince, and a hint of lanolin. The reduction is assuaged, the quality pours out, mealy, biscuity, figs, almond, macadamia, sour honey, but all discreet, measured. More to give, in other words, despite an incalculable appeal in the shorter term. | 96

Anthony Rose | A pale lemony gold in color, this has a sweet, grilled almondy aromatic and leesy solids character. Very pure Chardonnay in style, and the purity is reprised when you taste. The ripe honeycomb and nutty Chardonnay fruit is lifted by a finely textured mousse that’s bisected by a nicely balanced, trenchantly fresh, and crisp acidity, tapering to a balanced, dry finish. | 95