Vinous - Score: 96 (2013 June)

Oliver Collin's NV (2008) Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs Les Perrières leaves the room speechless. What a wine! A warm, toasty bouquet fleshes out into deep, expressive fruit in a big, large-scaled, vinous Champagne of the highest level. All the elements are very much in place in a wine that captures the best in small production, artisan Champagnes. Fermentation and aging in French oak barrels give these wines distinctly Burgundian overtones to match fruit from impeccably farmed vineyards. I think it is safe to say that, on this day, the 2008 Les Perrières stole the show.