The 2005 Henriot Brut Millésime is comprised of a fifty-fifty blend of chardonnay and
pinot noir and is made up entirely of fruit from either grand cru or premier cru vineyards. The
wine spent six years on its lees...
The 2005 Henriot Brut Millésime is comprised of a fifty-fifty blend of chardonnay and
pinot noir and is made up entirely of fruit from either grand cru or premier cru vineyards. The
wine spent six years on its lees prior to disgorgement and has a dosage of 9.5 grams per liter.
The wine is still youthfully reticent, but offers up a complex mélange of green apple, tart orange,
smoke, bread dough, stony minerality and citrus peel. On the palate the wine is deep, fullish,
young and tightly-knit, with a fine core of fruit, superb focus, elegant mousse, and plenty of
nascent complexity poking out from behind the brisk acids on the long and racy finish. This
definitely needs some time in the cellar to blossom, but it will be excellent. 2017-2040.