Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 elegant and lush

elegant and lush

there is another dimension present here

The tannins are dry and polished

wet stone and liqueur of red berry fruit

quite earthy and resinous

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 elegant and lushDisgorged with six grams per liter dosage, the 2007 Brut Cuve Nicolas Franois is showing very nicely, offering up aromas of fresh bread, citrus oil, crisp yellow orchard fruit, white flowers, verbena, macadamia nut and hints of biscuity complexity to come. Full bodied, chiseled but fleshy, its vinous core of fruit cloaks the vintage's brisk acids to achieve real plenitude in a year that's sometimes rather tautly austere. Long and penetrating and