"Lieu Dit Les Collinardins" Blanc de Blancs 1er Cru Brut Nature

Score

94+

"The 2019 Champagne Premier Cru Cumieres Blanc de Blancs Les Collinardins Brut Nature pours a bright golden yellow color and boasts a fantastic nose with notes of candied lime and lemon, key lime, white pear, smoky stones, tropical fruit (such as quince and pineapple), and fresh cream. The palate is vertical and compact, with nervous tension and energy, and requires some patience and time in this vintage. Give this another year or more to flesh out and show its underlying texture, which is hiding underneath. Currently, it has a crystalline and angular nature, but more nuanced and tropical notes are also shining through, accompanied by a frothy mousse that expands and builds the wine's natural volume further. It's ripe and long on the palate, with toasty notes and building richness."

Score

94

"Fragrant and enticing, with chalk, mineral, spice, apple blossom and graphite aromatics lacing flavors of tangerine, lime peel, poached quince and pear, and blanched almond and toast point. This mouthwatering version is firm and finely meshed, with a satiny texture and long, long finish. Disgorged April 2024. Drink now through 2040."A.N."

Score

93

"Pastry aromas dominate with lemon curd, butter and spring flowers. Pinprick bubbles with crisp acidity, a lean yet elegant palate, light body and a toasty mineral finish. Drink or hold."

Score

90

"Geoffroy™s 2019 Blanc de Blancs Les Collinardins is sourced from a 0.5-hectare, southwest-facing parcel in Damery planted between 1990 and 2007, on the border of Cumieres. The wine undergoes elevage for a full two years, predominantly in 600-liter demi-muids and 350-liter barrels, averaging five to six years of age. Disgorged without dosage in April 2024, this cuvee reveals aromas of nashi pear, honeysuckle and nuts, with a whisper of volatile acidity. On the palate, it is medium- to full-bodied, textural and incisive"vinous in character with a pinpoint mousse. Its racy acidity and lime-tinged finish underscore the wine™s no-malolactic vinification"a stylistic stamp that will not be present in the 2020 rendition of this cuvee."