Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2012 with plenty of dark red

with plenty of dark red cherry

and admirable concentration

delicious and saline-inflected flavors that display good focus and sneaky persistence on the balanced finish

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Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2012 with plenty of dark redDisgorged 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