Billecart Salmon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru NV 750ml
The Wine Advocate | RP 93
Published: Oct 24, 2024
Drink: 2024-2040
The NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru is showing beautifully today, with aromas of confit citrus, pear, herbs, orchard fruits, pastry and brioche. Medium to full-bodied, it is round and supple with the delicate, bright tension that is the signature of Billecart-Salmon. Perfectly balanced and offering a vinous, toasty and elegantly long finish, it's based on the 2017 vintage with 23% from 2016. Vinified and matured in stainless steel, it spent five years on the lees in bottle before being disgorged with a dosage of 1.7 grams per liter.
Billecart-Salmon’s style is characterized by elegance, purity and delicate freshness. Low fermentation temperatures are employed to preserve the purity and expressiveness of the fruit, while malolactic fermentation is systematically blocked to maintain the wine’s vibrant acidity. Since Mathieu Roland-Billecart’s arrival in 2018, the estate has expanded its barrel program, focusing on the best terroirs for cuvées like Brut Réserve and Brut Sous Bois, and has initiated biodynamic viticulture in Le Clos Saint-Hilaire.
Jamessuckling.com | JS 93
Published: Jul 19, 2024
A biscuity, silky blanc de blancs that has very fine bubbles and aromas of lemon peel, sliced apple, fresh croissant and chalk. It’s elegant and beautifully balanced. Drink now.
Decanter | D 90
Published: Jun 11, 2019
Drink: 2019-2023
Bold and robust, with attractive mineral, yeast and bready aromas. Showing some leesy evolution, a refined and rather lovely wine.
Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17.5
Published: Dec 2, 2022
Drink: 2022-2028
An exceptionally elegant, silky and surprisingly delicate champagne. I was expecting power, but this is like a mouthful of shimmering ribbons. An unusual floral fragrance, like the elusive scent of lily of the valley in an early-morning garden. Rich citrus woven into baked pear, tingling with green-apple sherbet. The bubbles float over the wine like cashmere lace. Tremendous purity. And the wine develops in the glass in a way I was not expecting, becoming richer, more dense, beginning to taste of violets and fresh-churned pink clay, of bread-yeast starters and sleepy pools of candlelight. A poet's champagne.
Champagne-billecart.fr
This cuvée is a blend of two different years revealing the special quality of the Chardonnay. Its complexity, its great vinosity and the surprisingly fresh finish is particularly appreciated by the most informed wine lovers.
APPEARANCE
An ultra-delicate effervescence with a rich mousse and lively, fine bubbles. A stunning luminous gold hue with sparkling green reflections.
AROMA
A pure, mineral intensity with an uncommon typicity, releasing notes of brioche, fresh butter, and white flowers. A distinguished and subtle realm that delicately evolves with a remarkable finesse.
PALATE
A creamy sensation with a chalky and meringue texture, associated with nuances of fresh almonds, citrus zest, and lemony notes. An exquisitely refined and persistent smoothness, finishing with a delicate touch of salinity.
TASTING
An exceptional fermentation with a mineral, chalky style, perfectly complementing Osciètre caviar or select noble fish served as carpaccio or ceviche.
Serve at: 10°C