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2007 Billecart-Salmon Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon Brut, 3-bottle Lot

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2007 Billecart-Salmon Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon Brut

750ml

RATINGS

97The Wine Advocate

Aromas of red berries, orange rind, dried flowers, warm brioche and spices... It's full-bodied, broad and vinous, with an enveloping attack and a bright underlying spice of acidity, revealing plenty of chalky dry extract and concentration, concluding with a long and precise finish...

94Wine Spectator

An elegant rosé Champagne, fresh and focused, with the silky mousse carrying a fine range of nectarine and white cherry fruit, underscored by grated ginger, marzipan and saline flavors. Offers a lingering, creamy finish.

94James Suckling

Beautifully toned red fruit with background mushroom and spice aromas, too. This is very fresh and gently complex. The palate has a vibrant array of zesty and succulent red berries and delivers an impressive, fluid and gently tart, strawberry finish.

94Wine Enthusiast

This palest of rosés is ethereal, with a light texture that floats over the acidity and red-fruit flavors...fresh and poised...

17.5Jancis Robinson

... Lots of impact and savoury fruit on the palate. Real orange peel zest...very serious...

PRODUCER

Billecart-Salmon

Billecart-Salmon was founded in 1818 by Nicolas Francois Billecart and his wife Elisabeth Salmon in Mareuil-sur-Ay, Marne, which is in France’s Champagne appellation. Today the estate is run by Francois-Roland, the seventh generation of the founding family. Billecart-Salmon makes numerous Champagnes, but is especially known for its rose and the Clos St.-Hillaire, which is made from a single Pinot Noir vineyard.

REGION

France, Champagne

Champagne is a small, beautiful wine growing region northeast of Paris whose famous name is misused a million times a day. As wine enthusiasts and all French people are well aware, only sparkling wines produced in Champagne from grapes grown in Champagne can be called Champagne. Sparkling wines produced anywhere else, including in other parts of France, must be called something besides Champagne. Champagne producers are justifiably protective of their wines and the prestige associated with true Champagne. Though the region was growing grapes and making wines in ancient times, it began specializing in sparkling wine in the 17th century, when a Benedictine monk named Dom Pierre Pérignon formulated a set guidelines to improve the quality of the local sparkling wines. Despite legends to the contrary, Dom Pérignon did not “invent” sparkling wine, but his rules about aggressive pruning, small yields and multiple pressings of the grapes were widely adopted, and by the 18th and 19th centuries Champagne had become the wine of choice in fashionable courts and palaces throughout Europe. Today there are 75,000 acres of vineyards in Champagne growing Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. Champagne’s official appellation system classifies villages as Grand Cru or Premier Cru, though there are also many excellent Champagnes that simply carry the regional appellation. Along with well-known international Champagne houses there are numerous so-called “producer Champagnes,” meaning wines made by families who, usually for several or more generations, have worked their own vineyards and produced Champagne only from their own grapes.