2010 Deutz Blanc de Blancs

With sweetly toasty brioche pastry, grilled white peaches and grapefruit citrus notes, this has a gently chalky edge, too. The palate has a fine acid line that lights up ripe white peach fruit flavor. Extremely elegant and even with attractively pithy grapefruit at the finish. Drink now.

The 2010 Blanc de Blancs is a very pretty, finely-knit wine with striking Chardonnay purity but also the textural depth that makes the best wines here so compelling. Lemon confit, white flowers, vanillin and spice all open up nicely in the glass. This is an especially generous, fleshy style of Blanc de Blancs, although brighter, chalkier notes emerge with time in the glass. All the elements are in the right place. Disgorged: February 24, 2016.

Deutz's 2010 Blanc de Blancs Brut (LR114D05516) opens quite clear, fresh and fruity on the open, elaborate and very fine nose from which I pick up some popcorn, burnt milk, toast and yeasty notes but also stewed seed fruit and a possibly a hint of botrytis. On the palate, this is a round, finessed and elegant Chardonnay with a firm, mineral structure, grip and good length. Tasted June 2018. Jun 2018, www.robertparker.com