2007 Billecart-Salmon "Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart" Brut Champagne
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James Suckling
Reviewed December 2020This is a laser-guided Champagne with fabulous energy and intensity with a tight palate, racy acidity and super fine phenolics. It goes on and on. Fine bubbles. Light pine and praline character. One for the cellar.
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Professional Reviews
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Wine Advocate
Disgorged with six grams per liter dosage, the 2007 Brut Cuvée Nicolas François 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 complemented by a pretty pinpoint mousse, this is a real success (WK).
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Vinous
The 2007 Brut Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart is positively stellar. Elegant, polished and sophisticated, the 2007 dazzles with effusive aromatics and gorgeous balance. It's not an obvious wine, though, but rather a Champagne built for long, patient cellaring. The 2007 is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay taken from Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Ambonnay, Verzenay and Verzy for the Pinots and Chouilly, Avize, Cramant and Mesnil for the Chardonnays. In other words, as good as it gets for villages. The wine was done mostly in tank with about 15% of the lots vinified in oak. Dosage is 6 grams per liter. (AG)
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Wine Enthusiast
This beautiful Champagne is amazingly at its peak. Not too mature, not too young, the wine is in fine balance, showing some nervy edge as well as touches of toast. With a small amount of wood vinification, the wine has extra fullness (RV).
Staff Reviews
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This masterful blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay is the quintessential Billecart-Salmon; creamy yet vivacious, generous yet elegant, toasty yet refreshing. The barrel fermentation was increased by 10% for this vintage and now a full 15% of the total sees large oak barrels, giving this very bright vintage a supple texture to go with its focused finish. This is spectacular Champagne for tonight at 14 years old, but will keep for decades if you choose to cellar it.
Details
| Type | Sparkling Wine |
|---|---|
| Origin | Champagne, France |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| SKU | 1529461 |