2006 Billecart-Salmon Les Clos St Hilaire 750Ml Bottle Chablis fine-grained tannins and a very

fine-grained tannins and a very

surprisingly offers remarkable depth and is ultimately delicious and well-worth seeking

Few wines from the Loire command the kind of reverence reserved for Vatan’s Clos la Néore

although that is far more closed

a hint of cigar box and cedary oak – not much

2006 Billecart-Salmon Les Clos St Hilaire 750Ml Bottle Chablis fine-grained tannins and a very"Rich nose, yeasty and so alive. The oak shows even more as the wine opens up, giving a cedar spice. Such underlying depth and richness with such a surprising mineral and acidic backbone with a verbena note, mandarin the most citric of the lot. There is a subtler nuttiness here that is almost creamy, like a Belgian chocolate, almost oily on the finish yet with such direction" 18. 5pts Alistair Cooper MW, jancisrobinson. com4