Impressively aromatic, showing honeysuckle, violets and lavender with bread dough and just a hint of light caramel as well as dried apples, cooked pears and tarte tatin. Reductive with graphite, stone and iodine. Some chalk too. Full-bodied but not at all heavy, turning almost weightless. Nine years on the lees and 7 g/L dosage give energy, length and form. Goes on for minutes. This will age beautifully but is already fascinating, evolving in the glass. Available in the US market in November. Drink or hold.

Pouring a bright silver-yellow hue, the NV Champagne Grand Siècle Iteration No. 27 is very pretty on the nose, with notes of wet stone, delicate smokiness, apricot, and lavender. Medium-bodied, it’s long on the palate, with silky complexity and pillowy mousse, offering key lime, lemon meringue, green apples, and a salty spice. With its silky, long finish, it reveals a sunny but refined elegance and is a very pretty edition. The complementary vintages are a blend of 2015, 2013, and 2012, with 65% from 2015 and 10% from 2012. The blend is 60/40 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, sourced from Mesnil-sur-Oger. Drink 2027-2057. It is less obvious than No. 26, but it has a lot of delicate almond and tertiary nuances hiding underneath.

The newest release of Laurent-Perrier’s “Grande Siècle”, Iteration No. 27, is composed from a three vintage blend of 2015, 2013 and 2012. In the end, sixty-five percent of the bottling is from 2015, twenty-five percent from 2013 and ten percent from 2012. The wine’s final cépages ended up being sixty percent chardonnay and forty percent pinot noir, all sourced from grand crus in either the Côte des Blancs or the Montagne de Reims. The wine was aged fully ten years sur latte prior to disgorgement. It is just being released and is still a young wine, but its pedigree is already very easy to see, as the wine wafts from the glass in a complex bouquet of apple., white peach, fresh-baked bread, a lovely foundation of chalky soil tones, almond, dried flowers and gentle smokiness in the upper register. On the palate the wine is crisp, full-bodied, focused and classy, with great depth of fruit at the core, fine soil inflection and grip, a lovely girdle of acidity, elegant mousse and a very long, impeccably balanced and complex finish. This is certainly approachable already, but it is still quite youthful and will be an even better drink with five to ten years’ worth of additional cellaring! Fine, fine juice

The NV Grande Cuvée Grand Siècle No. 27 is a gorgeous, complex wine. Pear, dried flowers, chamomile, mint, sage and ginger are all wonderfully dynamic in the glass. Floral and savory notes build with a bit of time in the glass. The No. 27 is a wonderfully complex Grand Siècle that can be enjoyed on release. The blend is 65% 2015, 25% 2013 and 10% 2012. There's a touch of vintage 2015 savoriness, but those notes add character rather than overpowering the wine. Dosage is 7 grams per liter. - Antonio Galloni

With hot, dry 2015 the backbone of this edition (with fresher 2013 and 2012 in support), it's no surprise that this edition of Grand Siècle is a relatively forward, open one at first. It shows yellow plum, bittersweet orange citrus, creamy nougat and a beautifully deep, ember-smoky vein of ageing complexity and candied-fruit richness lurking through its glossy, silky texture. The style remains true to the cuvée in its polish and fluency, although a little more grip and structure from 2015 marks this edition out as a relatively substantial one. With the elongating, freshening power of 2013 and 2012 in the blend, it's a fine argument for Grand Siècle's tri-vintage composition.

95+ Disgorged in January 2025 with a dosage of seven grams per liter, the forthcoming NV Grand Siècle N°27 already demonstrates considerable promise. A blend of the 2015, 2013 and 2012 vintages—predominantly anchored in the youngest—it draws from eight villages, comprising 60% Chardonnay and 40% Pinot Noir, with an intentional emphasis on Chardonnay to counterbalance the concentration of Pinot Noir. The 2015 imparts expressiveness, echoing the 2012, while the cool, late-ripening 2013 contributes freshness and cut. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of pear, peach, lemon confit and freshly baked bread, framed by a subtle smoky reduction, it is full-bodied and concentrated, built around a generous and charming core of fruit, underpinned by tangy acidity driving toward a long, resonant finish. Slightly fleshier and broader shouldered than the Grand Siècle N°24 tasted alongside, it indicates yet another distinguished Grand Siècle in the making.