Billecart Salmon, Le Clos Saint-Hilaire Vintage:2006

Billecart Salmon, Le Clos Saint-Hilaire Vintage:2006Disgorged 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

fruitcake and sandalwood over a core of preserved plums

with bits and pieces from Aux Saints Jacques

beautifully ripe tannins and bold freshness

The blend changes with each vintage and in 2010 they had very good Petit Verdot so the percentage of it is higher than ever

This is a sophisticated and classy Pessac-Léognan

opulently perfumed fruit followed by medium weight

all in a deep

It is opaque

green apples

hints of star anis

Fleshes out with air while maintaining liveliness and finishes bright

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