The palate offers all of the textured richness you might expect from a champagne of this calibre where harmony and completeness exist. It’s spicy and saline with an overriding profile of Tarte au Citron where there’s a sense of concentrated sugar, melted butter and mouth-watering lemon zest. On the finish, flavours of sourdough crust, lending a reductive, tangy and sour edge which provides the strongest indicator of its 1996 origins. In coming together, it makes a powerful and deeply concentrated wine, with a driving freshness, that is absolutely delicious and exciting to drink. This is one of the leading examples of champagne from this vintage, which is now complete in the fullness of time.