2019 Jérôme Arnoux Cremant "ZD"

Zero dosage - 100% Chardonnay. Aged for 60 months before release much of that time on lees. Taut & crunchy but no shortage of fruit here either. From the superb & very low yielding 2019 vintage.

94 Points, Kasia Sobiesiak (The Wine Front) – “This has a deeper shade of yellow, golden territory perhaps. It looks ripe and it smells ripe too; with peanut brittle, peach mousse and crunchy apple pastry, golden oats, in two words: salivatingly delicious. The palate has the weight but also the crunch. It’s lightly toasted, red apple, baked ricotta, swirls of honey on a toast, kind of nut and fruit muesli bar feel with green apple and brown lime to balance. The ripeness here does the trick, it gives the wine a satisfactory weight at no sugar expense. All comes together nicely with plenty of flavour. Very good sparkling.”

Superb value - Vintage Champagne of this quality & complexity would be 2-3 times the price.