Veuve Cliquot la Grand Dame 1989 - 75cl bt (presentation box)

Made by Jacques Peters. Very rich year. The original disgorgement. Dosage 8 g/l. 60% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay. Orange gold. Not that fizzy but an amazing deep colour and some autolysis quality. Very rewarding burnished bronze sort of aromas. Biscuits and coffee-cream chocolates. Very rich but still appetising and rather gorgeous. Playful but multi-layered, embroidered and intense. Very long. But it didn’t grow in the glass. Drink immediately. Jancis Robinson

score: 18 / 20