With some of the most flamboyant labels in Champagne, this series of bottlings celebrates Rodolphe’s son Victor and his somewhat unusual take on the world of art. This label, the sixth in the current series, is based, somewhat loosely, on the painting by Dali; The Temptation of St Anthony. The wine is posited as ‘the best of the best’ – that is to say, the blend of the best tank of wine from the base year (2014 in this instance) which comes from Le Chétillon en Haut, with the best of the reserve wine. Once again the idea is to juxtapose the fresh and youthful with the mature and complex; this is very successfully rendered, luxuriant honeycomb and generous fruit at its core (tangerine and mango come to mind) yet with a marked oyster shell salinity on the finish. A bittersweet wine of symphonic proportions. (SF)