waxy and saline blend

20% Mourvedre and the rest other permitted varieties

stunning concentration

I predict 25 years of felicitous bottle evolution

Production is some 6

Savart, Expression Brut Nature Brut Zero waxy and saline blendThe 2018 Brut Nature Expression is a blend of five old vine Pinot Noir parcels in Ecueil, all bottled in magnum. Tightly wound and quite reticent, the 2018 is rather different from the other wines in this range, the warm vintage notwithstanding. I imagine the magnum format also helps. More importantly, readers will have to be patient with the 2018, as it is nowhere near ready to drink. Bright acids run through a core of intense Pinot fruit on this