Aromas of Italian croissant, cooked apple and tarte tatin. Medium-bodied with a roundness and freshness. Steely. Floats on the palate like you are in the clouds. 75% from 2019 and 25% perpetual reserve. 5g/L dosage. Drink now.

Firm and minerally up front, with well-honed acidity and notes of smoke, chalk and oyster shell transitioning as they're integrated with a creamy range of crunchy pear, ripe green apple, pink grapefruit pith and almond skin flavors, which expand through the midpalate and lightly spiced finish. Elegant, but with good complexity and focus throughout. Disgorged May 2023. Drink now through 2028. – AN

The reserve wines bring a delicious, savoury sense of sourdough richness to fresh clementine, lemon and pale stone fruit, the tension of classic chalky villages still present but rounded out into a wine of impressive persistence. A benchmark NV Blanc de Blancs. 100% Chardonnay from grand cru villages in the Côte des Blancs. Based on the 2018 vintage with 50% reserves from a perpetual reserve going back to 1988.

Based on the 2019 vintage (which Péters declares "the best of the decade") and disgorged this year, the NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Cuvée de Réserve bursts with aromas of crisp stone fruit, orange zest, freshly baked bread and beeswax. Medium-bodied, ample and pillowy, with a fleshy core of fruit, racy acids and a saline finish, it's animated by an attractive pinpoint mousse. - William Kelley

This delivers its richness and intensity with gentleness an impressive trick for a completely dry wine. The scent of fresh cream of meadow flowers and lime transforms into a darker minerality as the wine turns from juicy to saline in the finish. Frisky in its youth this will age with grace.

The current release of Pierre Péters “Cuvée de Réserve” Blanc de Blancs non-vintage Brut was disgorged in February of 2015 and includes forty percent reserve wines, from the domaine’s solera, which was started in 1988. This is primarily base year 2012 and the wine was finished with a dosage of just over six grams per liter. The bouquet is deep and fairly youthful, wafting from the glass in a blend of pear, delicious apple, pastry cream, chalky soil tones, spring flowers and fresh almond. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite powerful in style in the classic Mesnil profile, with a rock solid core, brisk acids, slightly coarse mousse, fine focus and nascent complexity on the long, crisp and well-balanced finish. This is still a puppy, and while it is quite approachable today, it really needs at least a few years in the cellar to blossom more fully. It will be a very good bottle in the fullness of time, but never the most elegant of bubblies. 2018-2035+.

The NV Brut Cuvée de Réserve Grand Cru (base 2021) is a fine introduction to this range. Soft, open-knit and creamy, the Cuvée de Réserve is wonderfully engaging right out of the gate. Lemon confit, dried flowers, chamomile, baked apple tart and spice are front and center. All the elements are so well put together. This is an exquisite Champagne from Rodolphe Péters. Dosage is 5.5 grams per liter. Disgorged: January 4, 2023. -- Antonio Galloni