NV Christian Bourmault Brut Blanc de Blancs 'Lettre a Terre'

"Christian Bourmault’s Lettre à Terre bottling hails from vines that range from forty-five to sixty-seven years of age, all situated in the village of Cuis, and the current release is from the base year of 2014, but includes forty-nine percent of the previous vintage as reserve wine. It was disgorged in October of 2018 and finished with a dosage of three grams per liter. The wine offers up a lovely bouquet of apple, pear, fresh-baked bread, chalky minerality, a dollop of white flowers, a smoky topnote and a discreet foundation of buttery oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full- bodied and zesty, with a fine core of fruit, good mineral drive and cut, frothy mousse and a long, nascently complex and very classy finish.