Lombard et Cie Blanc de Noirs Extra Brut NV (750ML)

90 Points, John Gilman, View from the Cellar: "The current release of Lombard "Blanc de Noirs" Extra Brut is from the base year of 2012 and is composed entirely of pinot noir. The wine spent more than three years aging sur latte and was finished with a dosage of four grams per liter. The wine offers up an excellent bouquet of white peach, patissière, a fine base of soil tones, dried flowers and a hint of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a good core, slightly coarse mousse, brisk acids and fine focus and grip on the long and complex finish. This needs just a bit more bottle age to round into prime drinking mode, but it has depth and dimension on both the nose and palate and will be very tasty when it fully blossoms. 2018-2030." Disgorged 7/16