Olivier Leflaive, Saint Aubin Champlots Size:6x750ml providing lots of spice

providing lots of spice

(from vines reportedly between 85 and 115 years of age) Inky ruby

I'd cellar this complex and persistent Champagne for another two to 12 years

but it is already beginning to unwind

Juicy cherries and ripe plums on the palate

Olivier Leflaive, Saint Aubin Champlots Size:6x750ml providing lots of spice(only 2 barrels produced versus the usual 9 in 2021). This also displays just enough reduction to blur the finer points of the overtly floral inflected nose of citrusy white orchard fruit. There is both fine volume and richness to the vibrant middleweight flavors that exude evident minerality on the bone dry, persistent and lightly austere finale.