2019 Vouette Blanc d'Argile

100% Chardonnay. Dosage 0 g/l. Disgorged November 2022. The nose is a festival of white citrus and citrus blossom and cool, aromatic lemongrass. Verbena. Very very pretty. Like a song of spring. Lilting and lacy and looping and yet with these superbly mouth-watering wet-clay, cold-earth undertones. Clay soused in lemon juice. Finishes with wheatgerm savoury sweetness, which ends up framing the entire wine firmly and deftly as well as giving it a beautiful slightly smudgy structure to contrast with the precision of the bubbles. (TC)