Mumm DVX Napa Valley Sparkling Wine Napa Valley

51% Pinot Noir; 49% Chardonnay. Mumm's California Tete de Cuvee reaches ambitiously for both fruit and real champenized richness, and it comes up a winner on both counts. If very much transformed by its time en tirage, it is not excessively toasty and brilliantly marries elements of vigorous lemon and green apple fruit with nicely refined notes of minerals and autolyzed yeast. Its long, remarkably refined finish hints at citrus and chalk, and it is among our very first picks when it comes to washing down perfectly fresh oysters.