Picked before

Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut is typically aged for around 24 months in the cellar

offering both richness

Classy and long

Black Forest cake and oolong tea scents with touches of pencil shavings and dusty soil

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Champagne, 2006, 75cl Løse flasker Picked beforeThe 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is showing beautifully out of the gates, offering up demonstrative aromas of sweet golden orchard fruit, buttery croissants, peach and hazelnuts. Medium to full bodied, pillowy and enveloping, it's a rich, textural, vinous Comtes somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant 2002. If it gains in tension and cut (as the 2002 did and as I suspect the 2012 will) with more time on cork , it will make this initial