Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2012 It was a most unusual

It was a most unusual year that was cold and rainy and allowed for no irrigation

and admirable concentration

especially in a classic vintage such as this

There is plenty of wild fruit and cherry

with subtle aromas of violets

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2012 It was a most unusualDisgorged 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