Based on the 2020 vintage, the NV Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Lieux de Vie now incorporates some fruit from Avize lieux-dits Les Maladries and Le Champ Bouton (which will debut as a standalone bottling next year), while the percentage of reserve wines is a touch reduced, to 25%. Disgorged in January 2023 with only two grams per liter dosage, it offers up a deep and complex bouquet of freshly baked bread, crisp stone fruit, pear, buttery pastry, orange oil and clear honey, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and fleshy palate that's satiny, suave and chiseled, concluding with a long, penetrating finish. - WA
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