Egly-Ouriet, Brut Millesime Vintage:2009 This is the first vintage

This is the first vintage of Yalumba s new Cabernet/Shiraz-based flagship wine

But hard work does pay off

I would not mark it down as a top tier Petrus

It also reveals thin to medium texture

which features a very strong note of cloves and smoke

Egly-Ouriet, Brut Millesime Vintage:2009 This is the first vintageRevisited from the July 2019 disgorgement, Egly's 2008 Brut Grand Cru Millsime was showing as brilliantly as ever. The wine seemed to shut down a little in early 2020, but it is already beginning to unwind, and this was the most expressive bottle that I've drunk to date. Offering up an incipiently complex bouquet of orchard fruit, citrus oil, pralines and freshly baked bread, now complemented by hints of iodine, clear honey and mirabelle plum, it's