Larmandier Bernier Longitude Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Extra Brut NV (Label Damage)

Larmandier Bernier Longitude Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru Extra Brut NV (Label Damage)It shows a clear, fresh and precise bouquet with flinty mineral and even floral rather than fruity aromas. The wine blends the fruit of different plots on poorer, chalky soils along the Cte des Blancs. It delivers a lot of vitality and freshness but also ripe and juicy fruit. This Longitude is quite pure and precise on the palate, very linear and finessed, revealing stimulating acidity and vitality.

followed by gorgeously rich

youthfully austere and beautifully long finish

The mid-palate of the broad-shouldered flavors is pliant yet intense and muscular while the driving finish possesses breathtakingly good depth and persistence on the imposingly structured but not really rigid or unduly austere finale

Here too the middle weight flavors possess a highly seductive texture thanks to the velvety mouth feel that continues onto the serious

floral and stone elements that confer serious depth onto the red

it exhibits an impressively saturated dark purple color

) and then releases light flavours of honeysuckle and white jasmine

This too is really quite impressive for a Nuits villages

we decided to lay down the 250 cases of Nacional 2001

and loads of sweet raspberry

seeming duller

An absolutely compelling wine