🏅James Suckling 94pts
Sliced apples, wildflower honey, jasmine and sliced almonds on the nose, followed by a creamy palate with soft bubbles. Pretty honey flavors combined with fresh acidity and chalky minerality come through at the end. 50% chardonnay, 45% pinot noir and 5% meunier. 8 g/L dosage.
🏅Wine Enthusiast 94pts
Luminous pale gold with a stream of ultra-fine bubbles. The nose marries bright white peach, elderflower and lemon verbena with nutty brioche and a whisper of beeswax. The palate is creamy yet taut, juicy pear and apricot flavors framed by chalk mineral and vibrant citrus acidity. Soft honeyed undertones linger on the lengthy, refined finish, with persistent floral lift. An effortlessly balanced prestige cuvée, ideal for seafood feasts.
🏅Wine Advocate 93pts
The 2016 Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque Brut opens with bright scents of mirabelle plum, confit citrus, butter brioche and white blossom. Medium to full-bodied, pillowy and seamless, it delivers pinpoint fine mousse and a fleshy core of ripe orchard fruit, lifted by zesty citrus acidity and lingering chalk mineral tension. The dosage is perfectly integrated, lending gentle honeyed sweetness without weighing down its floral, airy character.
🏅Wine Spectator 93pts
Pale straw-gold with a persistent, lace-like mousse. Aromas of white anemone flower, poached pear, lemon curd and toasted hazelnut unfold gently, touched by subtle green spice and flinty mineral. Silky and balanced on the palate, with layered orchard fruit, brioche cream and saline chalk minerality. Bright, poised acidity carries the long, elegant floral finish.
🏅Vinous 93pts
The 2016 Belle Époque is floral, delicate and impeccably balanced, true to Perrier-Jouët’s house identity. White flower, pear and citrus aromas lead, followed by almond, toasted bread and chalk on the palate. The mousse is light and airy, acidity bright but not aggressive, and the finish mineral-driven with quiet honeyed fruit. It’s a cuvée of grace rather than power, built for extended drinking pleasure over the next 10–15 years.
🏅Jeb Dunnuck 93pts
Bright pale gold with fine bead. Attractive aromatics of jasmine, green apple, apricot and toasted almond, plus subtle brioche and flint. Medium-bodied, silky texture, well-integrated acidity and chalky mineral backbone running through the midpalate. Flavors of ripe pear, lemon tart and wildflower honey carry to a clean, lingering finish. It’s elegant, not overly rich, with terrific length and precision.
🏅Decanter 93pts
A beautifully expressive vintage Belle Époque with the house’s signature floral charm front and centre. Delicate white blossom, poached pear and pink grapefruit on the nose, underscored by hazelnut praline and chalk dust. The palate is soft, creamy and harmonious, with fine persistent mousse and zesty citrus acidity countering gentle honey fruit. Mineral saline notes define the long finish. Approachable now, but will gain deeper toasty complexity through 2032+.
