Billecart Salmon, Vintage Vintage:2009 Matt Dees is the winemaker

Matt Dees is the winemaker on a property originally invested in by Charles Banks and Stan Kroenke (in the same stable as Screaming Eagle at one stage)

An unobtrusive note of wood highlights the perfumed

There is a lovely sense of underlying tension to the tautly muscular flavors that are also shaped by relatively fine-grained tannins on the balanced and lingering finale

There are usually four vintages a decade of La Rioja Altas Gran Reserva 904

Billecart Salmon, Vintage Vintage:2009 Matt Dees is the winemakerThe newly released 2008 Extra Brut Vintage from Billecart Salmon is still predictably quite youthfully reticent, opening in the glass with a lively bouquet of citrus oil, crisp white peach, white flowers, cardamon and nutmeg. On the palate, it's medium to full bodied, chiseled and precise, with a tight knit core, lovely underlying chalky extract and a tensile finish. This is a vintage Billecart with more than usual upside, and it will be worth