Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 painfully young Cristal that will

painfully young Cristal that will require considerable patience

plenty of patience will be required

suave and concentrated

Readers should expect a pretty big Champagne

The vineyards are certified organic and biodynamic and are manicured like few vineyards in Spain

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 painfully young Cristal that willDisgorged 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