2014 looks like a vintage to remember for the Laetitia sparkling program — here’s the second sparkler in the line that I’ll call my favorite to date. The Cuvée M started as a millennium bottling, and has continued into the present — thankfully so. It seems to aim at a pear-focused profile each year, and this offering is squarely in that camp, with spiced pear joined by golden apple and granite aromas and flavors that carry power and weight in the mid palate, and finish cleanly with a brightly integrated push of flavor.
Laetitia, Arroyo Grande Valley (Monterey County, California) 2014
By Rich Cook