Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 Billecart-Salmon's newly released 2006 Brut

Billecart-Salmon's newly released 2006 Brut Le Clos Saint-Hilaire is showing well

intense and well-detailed middle weight flavors that are quite saline in character

especially when you add in the mature mouth feel and taste

very well judged acidity

An airy red pinot fruit nose nuanced by a lovely mix of game

Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 Billecart-Salmon's newly released 2006 BrutI found the new and ambitious 2015 La Parcelle 8 very ripe, playing with over ripeness. Perhaps it's the combination of centenary vines and a warm and dry year that delivered very ripe and concentrated juice, and the wine hits the scale at 15% alcohol, with plenty of tannins. It reminds me of the wines from yesteryear, lacking today's freshness and balance. It matured in 100% new French oak barrels for 26 months. Will it ever absorb the oak? 15,660