Name: Billecart Salmon Blanc de Blanc
Type: Blanc de Blancs Champagne
Grape variety used: 100% Chardonnay
Appellation: Champagne
Aromatic and taste description: Billecart Salmon Blanc de Blanc is an elegant and fine champagne with a pale golden color. The nose is fresh and floral, with notes of citrus and white fruits such as peach and pear. On the palate, the champagne is fresh and delicate, with flavors of ripe fruit and refreshing acidity. The finish is long and slightly saline.
Recommended food and wine pairings: This champagne is ideal as an aperitif, but it also goes perfectly with seafood, grilled fish and roast poultry.
Recommended serving temperature: 8-10°C
Shelf life and aging potential: This champagne can be consumed now, but it can also be kept in the cellar for several years for optimal aging.
Technical information :
- Alcohol: 12%
- Total acidity: 4.5 g/L
- pH: 3.15
- Residual sugar: 8 g/L
Expert commentary and tasting notes:
Wine Spectator: 92/100 points "Refined and creamy, with a delicate acidity that finds beautiful harmony with the layers of poached apple and pear, lemon cake, ground ginger and hazelnuts, all highlighted by a mineral touch of salted chalk. Drink now until 2024."
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 91/100 points "The Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Brut Nature, 100% Chardonnay and not vintage, is a lively, fresh and sparkling wine. It reveals a precise, ripe and rich but delicate bouquet of ripe apples, lemons, brioche and chalk dust. Medium-bodied, refined and elegant on the palate, this is a pure, dry, fresh and taut Blanc de Blancs which reveals a chalky, salty and perfectly balanced finish with a beautiful purity, finesse and tension.
Wine Enthusiast: 91/100 points "This wine is crisp, tight and fruity with a good balance between citrus flavors and toasted notes from bottle aging. The acidity and a mineral character add a nervous and mineral dimension that passes through the creamy texture.