Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 quite earthy and resinous

quite earthy and resinous

(from 4 separate parcels totaling 4

wet stone and liqueur of red berry fruit

elegant and lush

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 quite earthy and resinousDisgorged 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