Lelarge-Pugeot

2008 was such a precious, generous vintage in Champagne, translated here in equal measures of Meunier, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir. This trinity is perfectly balanced, showing the rounded edges and nuanced intensity acquired over a decade and a half ageing. The Millésime 2008 reveals bewitching, raisinated, almost port-like oxidative notes jewel-set in a soaring structure of bright citrus fruits too numerous to recount. Fans of well aged, tertiary, rich Champagnes will adore the molasses like minerality and lofty curviture of this wine’s orbit over the palate, lingering on the back-palate horizon with a precious sherry-like nuttiness like a west-coast sunset.