Billecart Salmon, Blanc de Blancs

Billecart Salmon, Blanc de BlancsVery pretty peaches, apple blossoms, honey and chalk on the nose. The palate is chalky and minerally but well integrated and rounded, with silky bubbles and delicious salt and pastry notes lingering. 100% chardonnay with stainless steel vinification. Based on the 2018 vintage, with 37% reserve. 3. 9 g L dosage. Drink now.

with racy acids and a sapid finish

but that's what gives this its spice

the 2009 The Gradient Pinot Noir envelops a core of red cherries and red currant aromas with notes of stems

the Roagna 2014 Barbaresco Albesani opens to a medium ruby color with pretty garnet highlights

and black fruits intermixed with spice and incense

showing power but no coarseness

with a good concentration and a ripe

balanced and overtly austere finish

The second Riserva personally overseen by Franco Biondi Santi arrived in a moderate season

this is a structured wine

A more deeply pitched and slightly more complex nose offers up notes of dark pinot fruit

(from one-third Beugnons and two-thirds Châtains)