Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 Look for four decades or

Look for four decades or more of luxuriant satisfaction

The tannins are dry and polished

quite earthy and resinous

all wrapped in a mouth coating

austere and incredibly persistent finish

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 Look for four decades orDisgorged 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