Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2006 sous-bois and light mint aromas

sous-bois and light mint aromas

yellow and ferrous marlstone that absorbs the moisture well

This is a big but focused Bèze that has already begun to shut down

Already quite forward

This is terrific and absolutely worth considering

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2006 sous-bois and light mint aromasDisgorged 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