A blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from Grand and Premier Cru vineyards, this Champagne is impressively rich. Still young, its taut texture and minerality are imbued with elegance as well as freshness. This is a style of wine that can age for many years so, although it could be drunk now, it will improve at least until 2025. ROGER VOSS

92+ The 2014 Taittinger Brut Millésimé is made from a fifty-fifty blend of chardonnay and pinot noir, with seventy percent of the grapes hailing from grand cru villages. The wine was aged five years sur latte prior to disgorgement. The nose wafts from the glass in a vibrant and youthful blend of lemon, apple, chalky minerality, bread dough, a nice touch of salinity and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and impeccably balanced, with a fine core, lovely mineral drive and grip, elegant mousse and a long, zesty and nascently complex finish. This is approachable today, but it is still a young wine and four or five more years in the cellar will really allow the wine to blossom fully. A lovely vintage bottling from Taittinger.

The newly released 2014 Brut Millésimé from Taittinger is showing very well, offering up aromas of white peach, green apple, nougat and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, bright and incisive, with a charming core of fruit and a delicate mousse, this is a pretty, expressive vintage for Taittinger. Sufficiently open and fruit-driven to be enjoyed, toasty complexity with come with a few years on cork. - WK