Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 penetrating finish

penetrating finish

painfully young Cristal that will require considerable patience

with honeyed impingement both aromatically and on the palate reinforcing the sense of relative opacity and rounded richness that the other Graachers in this year s collection displayed

a refined and silky quaff redolent of ripe red cherry and rose petal aromas and flavors

Readers should expect a pretty big Champagne

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 penetrating finishDisgorged 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