Roger Manceaux

This is a delicious, fresh and delightful champagne made with Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay suggesting aromas and flavours of strawberry and apple, spiced pear and a fine yet intense leesy quality. It is both elegant and refreshingly new and youthful. As the wine touches the palate the flavours of lees and strawberry arrive first then pear and apple with some old grapfruit and white spice layers. There’s a distinctive chalky mineral quality and vibrant core of energy and youthfulness. The mousse is refreshing and moderately fine with a slightly salty note and delivers the flavours and acidity with ease. Balanced and well made with a lengthy aperitif finish. Best drinking from day of purchase and through 2029.

Colour intensity is medium-high, light golden I would say. With a youthful mousse, with medium sized bubbles. Nose is quite intense, ripe, displaying notes of ripe pear, yellow apple, plum. I suppose this is rather a classic blend of the three varieties, perhaps with a slight dominance off Pinot. Palate is quite full, with noticeable dosage, however not too high. Good freshness with high acidity there. And quite generous fruit like crushed apple, plum and pear. Mousse is giving a quite creamy mid-palate. The finish is medium to long, with a real emphasis of fruit with those pear, plum and apple notes. Rather youthful, but a style which is probably made to be consumed in its very youth.