2007 Charles Heidsieck Blanc de Millenaires, Champagne

Cyril Brun considers the 2007 vintage more interesting for Chardonnay than 2008, and Charles Heidsieck's 2007 Brut Blanc de Blancs Blanc des Millénaires is certainly a compelling wine. Unwinding in the glass with scents of crisp stone fruits, honeycomb, buttered pastry, yellow apples, pear and freshly baked bread, it's full-bodied, ample and seamless, with a concentrated core of fruit and a chiseled, racy profile. Combining generosity and tension, it's a terrific new release.

95 points William Kelley robertparker.com

This atypical vintage which suits Chardonnay so well is promised a bright future: Charles Heidsieck will choose it as the 7th cuvée of a Blanc des Millénaires radically different from its 2006 predecessor.

Because if each cuvée is the exclusive product of great Chardonnays exceptional by their incomparable texture, their aromatic complexity and their capacity for maturation, each will develop its own personality, linked to the organoleptic profile of its year of birth.