Larmandier Bernier Latitude Extra Brut NV

Larmandier Bernier Latitude Extra Brut NVThe wine offers a clear, fresh, precise and intensely fruity bouquet of ripe fruits and elegant terroir notes. Very fine and elegant on the palate, this is a linear and expressive style with a beautifully juicy finish with fresh pineapple flavors. Excellent as an aperitif or with white meat.

super-pure

There is almost painful intensity to the super-sleek big-bodied flavors that possess a positively gorgeous mouthfeel due to a mid-palate that brims with sappy dry extract that coats the mouth on the hugely long and impeccably well-balanced finale

The old vines are very much in evidence as there is a true abundance of palate soaking dry extract that imparts a velvety mouth feel to the mid-palate and buffers the very firm tannins on the youthfully austere

McIntosh apple

This is notably ripe with its expressive and attractively cool nose of black cherry and raspberry

It's going to be interesting in 25 or 30 years' time to see which of these is the better wine

blackberry preserves

A restrained but attractively fresh

and Sangiovese

The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Paradise Hills Vineyard (1

weight and power to the medium weight plus flavors that brim with mouth coating dry extract that buffers well the firm tannic spine on the strikingly long finish

Still tight