This is a new release from Champagne Tarlant, replacing the higher dosage Brut Réserve. The Extra Brut has just 3g/l residual sugar, much closer to Benoît and Melanie’s preferred dry style of Champagne. Their wines have all the textural depth of flavour you could want without the softening dosage sugar, thanks to their long ageing before release. Although this is their ‘entry level’ cuvée, it has 2016 vintage at its base. It’s a blend of 51% Pinot Noir, 34% Pinot Meunier, and 15% Chardonnay from the Tarlant’s vineyards around Oeuilly. It is chalky, chiselled, mineral, and moreish. And it offers a brilliant level of quality, and huge character, for its price.

The Zéro Brut Nature is the signature cuvée of the Tarlant family. They place great emphasis on maturity: in the vineyard (with a proliferation of old vines); in barrel (using long ageing in old oak), and in bottle, sur lattes (long lees ageing before disgorgement and release). As a result the most recent release of their wonderful Zéro Brut Nature has 2016 at its heart, where most other Champagne houses are on 2019 or 2021. The wine shows fabulous complexity and depth thanks to its unusually long ageing. It is tightly-wound, with a vinous concentration and length. Its extended ageing in bottle before disgorgement adds depth and creaminess. Blind, you'll trip over yourself saying it's Krug. If we had a 'house' grower champagne, this would be it.

There is a real sense of classicism to the 2024 VCC. It is serene, supple, classic but with modern refinement. Dark cherry fruit, wild herbs with violets and crushed rocks it is very expressive and charming. There is structure and freshness which shows this is a wine that will go the distance - it finishes with a real focus and intensity.

A blend of 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, this is such a beautiful and expressive Pomerol this year. It begins restrained with subtle notes of pepper, violets, incense so full of detail. It is a tense, saline and vibrant wine which is full of energy just with a fine, caressing texture. There are accents of oyster shell, kelp and soy around the ripe dark cherry fruit. A wine of purity and focus it numbers among the best wines made this vintage.

This is a charming GPL that combines the freshness and vibrancy of the vintage with the fingerprint gravelly core of the estate. There are aromas of cedar, violets and graphite on the nose with vibrant and detailed dark cherry fruit on the palate. It is supple and mid-weight with fine-grained tannins with a lift of spice on the finish.

An elegant and detailed Evangile this year, the Cabernet Franc in the blend speaks through. There are aromas of violet, kelp, dark cherry fruit and wild herbs with a subtle oak spice. This is fleshy through the mid-palate with freshness and salinity at its core. The finish is refreshing and harmonious with a sense of class.

A blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc, there is a lot of detail here with excellent definition of aromatics - violets, fresh earth, liquorice, and white pepper. There is dark cherry fruit here, wild herbs, and a kelp and saline energy. It is bright and with enormous energy with supple and well framed tannins.

A wine of really beguiling aromatics it offers notes of violets, lavender, cherry blossom, iris, and hints of dark cherry fruits. It almost belies the vintage with a real sense of completeness and elegance. Transparent and pure, this is seamless but so mineral and focused. There's intensity and silkiness with a tension that runs from start to finish.

This is the second vintage to be made in the new winery. This is a bright and focused l'If offering aromas of violets, peony, oyster shell and crushed rocks. There is a tension through the palate with sinewy and fine-boned tannin that frames the dark cherry fruit. The finish is expressive, fresh with accents of wild herbs.

A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc, the Grand Vin from this estate represents 52% of the production. It is a gravelly, tightly coiled, sinewy and sculpted style with a fine mineral core with notes of kelp, graphite, and black tea. There are accents of incense and Five Spice with a floral lift of violets too. The tannins form a lattice around the dark cherry fruit with a real sense of direction through the palate.