Champagne Franck Bonville Les Belles Voyes 2012

"Medium to deep straw-gold colour. A very complex and very mature, developed bouquet loaded with vanilla, toffee, nut, resin and bruised apple aromas, plus some dried apricot. Building roast hazelnut. The wine is rich and full-bodied, the balance very dry and savoury, appetising and demanding food. There is richness and breadth as well as tightness and focus, and extra-long persistence. The apparent forward-development may be due to barrel usage. It's multi-layered and seems more evolved than expected for a 2012, showing quite a lot of barrel maturation character. A superlative wine of lip-smacking dryness."

"Full in colour and amplitude, this is a cuvée at the far extreme of Côte des Blancs concentration, exploding with the full, voluptuous, exotic presence of Oger and the creamy texture and biscuity complexity of barrel fermentation. It's intensely spicy, full bodied and firm in structure, uniting dry tannin grip with the stony mineralty of Oger"