Larmandier Bernier, Levant Vv other_regions_australia This too will need a

This too will need a few years of cellar time first

Still a bit edgy owing to its firm acid/tannin spine and mineral underpinning but finishes with subtle length

Delicate but intense

First produced in 1982

Larmandier Bernier, Levant Vv other_regions_australia This too will need aI'm increasingly convinced that Pierre Larmandier produced Champagne's wines of the vintage this year, and the 2011 Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Vieille Vigne du Levant only compounds that suspicion. Unfurling in the glass with a deep and complex nose of citrus zest, crisp yellow apples, smoke, warm bread, mandarin oil and oyster shell, it's full bodied and fleshy but incisive, with huge concentration, bright acids and a long, intensely saline