JOHN GILMAN 91 POINTS -"The current release of Rodolphe Péters’ “Cuvée de Réserve” Blanc de Blancs is from the
base year of 2018. It includes reserve wines in the blend all the way back to 1988! Seventy-five
percent of the vins clairs go through malo for this bottling, with the wines raised in a
combination of stainless steel, cask and concrete. It was disgorged [in November] of 2021 after
aging sur latte two years. The bouquet is deep and refined, wafting from the glass in a mix of
apple, pear, fresh almond, brioche, chalky soil tones and a topnote of white flowers. On the
palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and still quite youthful, with a good spine of acidity,
fine depth at the core, good mineral drive, pinpoint bubbles and a long, still fairly brisk and
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promising finish. I love the expressiveness of this wine on the nose, but it is lagging behind on
the palate and could do with a year or two in the cellar to blossom more properly from behind its
acids and start to drink with generosity. It is going to be a lovely non-vintage bottling of Blanc
de Blancs. 2024-2040."
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