Marguet Extra Brut Champagne Ambonnay Grand Cru 2011

94 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The Ambonnay bottling is now Benoît Marguet’s sole vintage-dated bottling from a blend of parcels, as the remainder of his lineup is composed of single vineyard wines. However, as I mentioned last year in the note on the 2010, the 2009 vintage was the last where this wine included any fruit from the family’s small parcel in the neighboring village of Bouzy and this is now one hundred percent Ambonnay fruit. This is an amazingly good 2011, with a blend of two-thirds pinot noir and one-third chardonnay, no dosage and disgorgement back in September of 2017. The bouquet jumps from the glass in a youthful mix of apple, white peach, patissière, chalky soil tones and a gently smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, nascently complex and racy, with a superb core, fine focus and grip, very refined mousse and a long, zesty and very, very promising finish. I would give this another three years in the cellar to really blossom. 2021-2050. (Jan/Feb 2018)"