Light yellow-gold. Ripe peach and poached pear on the deeply perfumed nose, with complicating notes of iodine, truffle and musky flowers. Smells a lot like a Chassagne. Round, chewy and expansive, offering intense orchard fruit flavors and bracing notes of lemon pith and smoky minerals. Plays richness off vivacity and finishes with outstanding clarity and mineral-driven persistence. Disgorged in May, 2014.

The 2005 Extra-Brut Millésime is creamy, layered and deeply expressive, with a good deal of texture and complexity that make it an excellent choice for drinking over the next few years. The 2005 is not especially complex, but it is absolutely delicious and a terrific effort for a vintage that has turned out to be irregular. The slightly forward aromatics suggest the 2005 is best enjoyed sooner rather than later. Dosage is 4 grams per liter. Disgorged: March 2016.