Nicolas Feuillatte Brut Réserve Champagne

In the last few years, I have been quite impressed with how the quality of the Nicolas Feuillatte lineup has risen, and the current release of their Brut Réserve is another strong effort that is a step or two up from what this maison used to produce a decade ago. The bright and complex nose offers up a mix of lemon, apple, bread dough, complex, chalky minerality and a topnote of spring flowers. On the palate the wine is fullish, crisp and nicely balanced, with quite good, but not great depth at the core, elegant mousse, bright acids and really very nice complexity on the long, minerally and quite poised finish. This is really quite a good bottle of bubbly and an excellent value.