Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Le Clos St. Hilaire 2007 (750ML) Vouvray

Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Le Clos St. Hilaire 2007 (750ML) VouvrayA rare vintage treasure, Billecart Salmon Clos St Hilaire 2007 is a Blanc de Blancs Champagne that embodies prestige. Sourced from a single vineyard, this wine boasts a complex and age worthy profile, with notes of citrus, toast, and a lingering minerality. Critical Acclaim 98 Points, James Suckling, www. jamessuckling. com "Beautifully complex and mineral with notes of chalk, blanched almonds, dried raspberries, rose petals, pink grapefruit, nutmeg

Wine is fine

Great acidity and a round finish makes this a versatile wine for an aperitif and with first courses including grilled octopus

red-toned fruit

Vibrant acidity bring energy to the mid palate while complex flavors of white truffle and Seville orange mingle with dark berry fruit on the finish

24% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc

This sees six months in French oak

The intention with Castello di Monsanto’s Riserva is to make a wine with immediate accessibility as well as serious cellaring potential

There’s a luxurious texture I aim for with our Jayson Cabernet

the juice was left to settle down

with tints of silvery green

hints of baking spice

"A bit cedary and dry