Delamotte : Collection Blanc de Blancs 2007

Reminiscent of Puligny-Montrachet with bubbles, with sleek acidity and a pronounced vein minerally chalk and brine enmeshed with flavors of baked melon, smoke, peach and hazelnut. Fine and creamy, it glides across the palate, with latent lemon curd and pastry accents on the finish. Drink now through 2037.

This is a racy and intense, late-released blanc de blancs that spent 15 years in the bottle on yeast. Aromas of flint, iodine, brioche, butter, chalk and dried lemons with some apple. So complex. Full-bodied with round, creamy bubbles and a dense, very long finish. Rather chunky. Pristine and transparent. Disgorged in 2022. 5,000 bottles released at the beginning of 2024. Drink or hold.

The 2007 Collection is a rich, heady wine, displaying apricot, mango, yellow flowers, crushed rocks, spice and tropical inflections. At the time, Delamotte sourced from four villages in the Côte des Blancs: Le Mesnil, Oger, Avize and Cramant. The 2007 was finished with no dosage, as is often the approach here for the Collection releases. Disgorged: October 2023.

The 2007 Blanc de Blancs Millésimé Collection is simply stunning at this stage, offering aromas of white flowers, lemon oil, confit citrus, brioche, ripe orchard fruits and caramel. Medium to full-bodied, rich and concentrated, it's round and enrobing, with a fleshy, vinous core of fruit and bright acids, leading to a long, mouthwatering and saline finish. It will drink at its peak in five to eight years.