DESCRIPTION
Delamotte's 2007 Blanc de Blancs is an excellent choice for drinking now and over a handful of years because of its immediacy and welcoming, open-knit personality. Yellow orchard fruit, brioche, vanilla and spices flesh out, along with pretty tropical-inflected notes that appear later. The rich, creamy finish only adds to the wine's considerable allure today. The Delamotte vintage Champagne is a blend of fruit from four villages: Le Mesnil, Oger, Avize and Cramant, as is rendered with full malolactic fermentation, which gives the wine its soft contours and overall resonance. Vinous/Galloni 92
The 2007 Delamotte Blanc de Blanc Brut Millésimé is comprised of grapes from the
villages of Mesnil-sur-Oger, Cramant, Avize and Oger. The wine wafts from the glass in a deep
and still quite youthful blend of lemon, apple, chalky minerality, spring flowers, gentle
smokiness and a touch of the crème patissière to come with further bottle age. On the palate the
wine is pure, full-bodied and still youthfully snappy, with a fine core, lovely soil signature,
refined mousse and a long, brisk and very promising finish. This is certainly approachable today,
but it really deserves three or four years in the cellar to blossom a bit more from behind its racy
structural attributes. Fine juice. 2018-2030+. 92.