Disgorged in 2022, the latest rendition of Lamblot's NV Brut Nature Intuition Nature is based on the 2019 vintage, and it represents a step up from its 2018 predecessor. Offering up aromas of crisp orchard fruit, bread dough, warm spices and toasted nuts, it's medium to full-bodied, with a pillowy attack that segues into a fleshy, elegantly vinous and nicely concentrated mid-palate that's framed by chalky dry extract. Located in Janvry, with vines in Vrigny and Gueux, Alexandre Lamblot continues to push forward with his ambitious project. Organic conversion began in 2016, and Lamblot is testing the limits viticulturally, planting hundreds of fruit trees throughout his 3.8-hectare estate, pruning late in cordons, rolling the canopies instead of hedging and cultivating the soils using a small caterpillar-tracked "chénillard" instead of a heavy tractor, as well as experimenting with permaculture. Such methods mean that, thus far, yields have been very low. Harvest occurs in the small hours, when temperatures are lower, and fruit is picked into 14-kilogram cases. Pressing is classic in an old Coquard; musts descend by gravity to the cellar, fermented in wood and matured for between 11 months and three years on the lees. Lamblot credits Jérôme Prévost, for whom he worked, for helping him have the confidence to take risks in the winery. His first releases were very promising, and with more time on the lees before disgorgement, his more recent wines are more complete and harmonious: concentrated but incisive, produced from physiologically ripe fruit and patinated by their maturation in wood on the lees, before disgorgement without dosage; they introduce us to the potential of a sector of Champagne that remains largely "terroir incognita." Drink 2023 - 2033 William Kelley, Wine Advocate (December 2023)