Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 The 2014 Châteauneuf du Pape

The 2014 Châteauneuf du Pape Cuvee Marie Beurrier is an already complex

plenty of patience will be required

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

with honeyed impingement both aromatically and on the palate reinforcing the sense of relative opacity and rounded richness that the other Graachers in this year s collection displayed

Billecart Salmon, Nicolas Francois Vintage:2002 The 2014 Châteauneuf du PapeDisgorged 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