Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 especially when you add in

especially when you add in the mature mouth feel and taste

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pillowy and enveloping

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

Casa, Lapostolle Vintage:2017 especially when you add inI 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