100% Chardonnay. 2008 base vintage; 15% reserve wines.  All estate, grand cru fruit (seventeen hectares!) from Cramant.  Raised in stainless steel.  Dosage: 6 g/l.  Aged minimum 36 months on the lees.

White-gold. Estery and assertive: hedgeflowers to a chalky backdrop up front. Abundant pencil lead and stone fruit to follow. Fine autolytic character. Extract-rich fabric of quince and mirabelle. The finish is old-school white farmer fizz, a minerality so incisive it sizzles. Now – 2018+.