"The 2012 “les Bouquets” Brut Nature Millésime from Hugues Godmé is made from a cépages of sixty percent chardonnay and forty percent pinot noir. Forty percent of the vins clairs were barrel-fermented for this wine, which was aged fully nine years on its fine lees prior to disgorgement in April of 2023, It and was finished non-dosé. The wine offers up a deep and stunning bouquet of white peach, apple, fresh-baked bread, caraway seed, a superb foundation of chalky minerality, dried flowers, just a hint of oak and a topnote of distant smokiness. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a great core of fruit, superb mineral drive and grip, elegant mousse and a very long, vibrant and impeccably balanced finish. The very 148 extended aging sur latte has allowed the acids to relax beautifully and this is one of the most lovely non-dosé wines I have tasted in quite some time. "