2007 Champagne Billecart-Salmon, Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon, Rosé, Brut

2007 Champagne Billecart-Salmon, Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon, Rosé, Brut

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2007 Champagne Billecart-Salmon, Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon, Rosé, Brut

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Created in 1988 as a tribute to one of the houses founders, Elisabeth Salmon, Billecart-Salmon's iconic 2007 Millsime Brut Ros Cuve Elisabeth displays a beautifully radiant, shimmering orange-salmon color. The bouquet of this Pinot Noir/Chardonnay blend is as intense as it is delicate and vinous, displaying red and yellow-fleshed fruit intertwined with floral, chalky and citrus notes as well as a noble sur lie character. Round, lush and delicate on the palate, this is a highly elegant, charming, beautifully balanced ros with great finesse and amazingly fine grip on the long yet pure, tensioned, well-structured and stimulatingly salty finish. This ros Champagne is close to perfection! A small percentage of the Pinot Noirfrom old vines in the south-facing Valofroy parcel in Mareuil-sur-Awas vinified as red wine and added to give this unique color and vinosity. The other Pinots are sourced in the grand crus Verzenay and A, and the Chardonnay comes from grand crus in the Cte des Blancs, namely Chouilly, Avize and Mesnil-sur-Oger. Tasted in November 2018, from lot L 298A826 46572 that was disgorged in May 2018.
Stephan Reinhardt - 07/12/2018

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Created in 1988 as a tribute to one of the houses founders, Elisabeth Salmon, Billecart-Salmon's iconic 2007 Millsime Brut Ros Cuve Elisabeth displays a beautifully radiant, shimmering orange-salmon color. The bouquet of this Pinot Noir/Chardonnay blend is as intense as it is delicate and vinous, displaying red and yellow-fleshed fruit intertwined with floral, chalky and citrus notes as well as a noble sur lie character. Round, lush and delicate on the palate, this is a highly elegant, charming, beautifully balanced ros with great finesse and amazingly fine grip on the long yet pure, tensioned, well-structured and stimulatingly salty finish. This ros Champagne is close to perfection! A small percentage of the Pinot Noirfrom old vines in the south-facing Valofroy parcel in Mareuil-sur-Awas vinified as red wine and added to give this unique color and vinosity. The other Pinots are sourced in the grand crus Verzenay and A, and the Chardonnay comes from grand crus in the Cte des Blancs, namely Chouilly, Avize and Mesnil-sur-Oger. Tasted in November 2018, from lot L 298A826 46572 that was disgorged in May 2018.
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About this WINE

Champagne Billecart-Salmon

Champagne Billecart-Salmon

Champagne Billecart-Salmon was founded in 1818 in the village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ near Epernay. It remains family-owned and run; Mathieu Roland-Billecart represents the seventh generation here, following in the footsteps of founders Nicolas-François Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon.

A family tasting committee meets weekly, joined by chef du cave Florent Nys. The eight-person panel includes three generations of the family, notably including Jean Roland-Billecart (who alone has over 75 vintages of experience). Not one cuvée is released until every member of the committee agrees on the blend.

Billecart-Salmon is a large Champagne House, with around 100 hectares of vines of its own. The process of organic conversion for the vineyards was started in 2019. The house also buys fruit from growers covering another 300 hectares of vines. Most of the fruit comes from the Champagne sub-regions of Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne and Côte des Blancs.

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Rosé Champagne

Rosé Champagne

Rosé wines are produced by leaving the juice of red grapes to macerate on their skins for a brief time to extract pigments (natural colourings). However, Rosé Champagne is notable in that it is produced by the addition of a small percentage of red wine – usually Pinot Noir from the village of Bouzy – during blending.

Recommended Producers : Billecart Salmon (Elizabeth Salmon Rose), Ruinart

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Champagne blend

Champagne blend

Which grapes are included in the blend, and their proportion, is one of the key factors determining the style of most Champagnes. Three grapes are used - Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier.

26% of vineyards in Champagne are planted with Chardonnay and it performs best on the Côtes des Blancs and on the chalk slopes south of Epernay. It is relatively simple to grow, although it buds early and thus is susceptible to spring frosts. It produces lighter, fresher wines than those from Burgundy and gives finesse, fruit and elegance to the final blend. It is the sole grape in Blancs de Blancs, which are some of the richest long-lived Champagnes produced.

Pinot Noir accounts for nearly 40% of the plantings in Champagne and lies at the heart of most blends - it gives Champagne its body, structure, strength and grip. It is planted across Champagne and particularly so in the southern Aube district.

The final component is Pinot Meunier and this constitutes nearly 35% of the plantings. Its durability and resistance to spring frosts make the Marne Valley, a notorious frost pocket, its natural home. It ripens well in poor years and produces a soft, fruity style of wine that is ideal for blending with the more assertive flavours of Pinot Noir. Producers allege that Pinot Meunier lacks ageing potential, but this does not deter Krug from including around 15% of it in their final blends.


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