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Subregion | France > Champagne |
Colour | White |
Type | Sparkling |
Much as I wrote last year, the 2014 Brut Vintage opens in the glass with notes of crisp orchard fruit, freshly baked bread, lemon oil and light reduction. Medium to full-bodied, deep and tightly wound, with racy acids and chalky grip, it continues to display a pinpoint mousse and concludes with a long, dry finish. As it unwinds with time in the cellar, it's revealing more potential.
Bright straw colour and lively mousse. A broad nose of citrus curd, brioche and fresh cream here. The palate has an oyster shell salinity that sits against a creamy, full-bodied mousse. Tangy acids refresh the smoky, silky texture and rich autolytic, bready tones. A refreshing but complex Champagne, this has an immediacy that can be enjoyed now, with a lick of sweet fruit providing real drinking pleasure. Fresh with acids to the finish, it will age gracefully for a decade in bottle.
The 2014 Champagne Millésime Brut is 65% Pinot Noir and the rest Chardonnay and is fresh with aromas of yellow plum, pear, honey, and light toast. The palate is fresh and approachable, with starberry and bread dough. Drink 2022-2032.
Piper Vintage 2014 is going from strength to strength, with its sublime coffee-toned toasty complexity and sweet, exotic-fruit extravaganza. This is an underrated cuvée that brings immediate pleasure but can also be kept for further expression. There is voluptuous fruit of welcoming overtness on the mid-palate, but soon a sensation of acidity enters, impressing with its energising raciness and drive. Really long and saline, bursting with pristine fruit. Rewards further cellaring.
A bright, silky and vinous Champagne with aromas of dried apricots, walnuts, seashells, preserved lemons, raspberry tart and frangipani. Very fine bubbles here, with succulent citrus and berry fruit. Why wait? Drink now.