Billecart Salmon, Le Clos Saint-Hilaire Vintage:2006 beautifully ripe tannins and bold

beautifully ripe tannins and bold freshness

with bits and pieces from Aux Saints Jacques

fruitcake and sandalwood over a core of preserved plums

opulently perfumed fruit followed by medium weight

I would again be inclined to allow it another few years of cellaring first

Billecart Salmon, Le Clos Saint-Hilaire Vintage:2006 beautifully ripe tannins and boldDisgorged in November 2020 with two grams per liter dosage, Billecart Salmon's newly released 2006 Brut Le Clos Saint Hilaire is showing well, unwinding in the glass with aromas of pear, mirabelle plum, dried fruits, walnuts, bee pollen and spices. Full bodied, layered and vinous, it's a concentrated, muscular young wine, allying maturing flavors with broad structural shoulders and racy acids and concluding with a long, resonant and slightly mordant