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Wines tasted
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Tasting notes
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Billecart-Salmon, founded in 1818, holds the longest unbroken run of family ownership of any Champagne house — the result of a marriage between Nicolas François Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon, both of whom now lend their names to the prestige cuvées.
Two centuries in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, one family, and the rosé most other houses are quietly measured against.
Here is a lovely Blanc de Blancs, showing notes of white flowers and white stone fruit, with yellow plums and a taut minerality underneath.
The nose is complex, giving clear notes of autolytic character, clean fruit and minerality, with floral tones alongside and light touches of beeswax and baked lemons.
The nose is rich, and nicely balanced between ripe fruit, mature notes of ageing, autolytic character and a fantastic minerality.
A stunning salmon-pink colour. The nose is complex, with ripe red berries — wild strawberry and garden strawberry — alongside a clear note of blood orange and citrus blossom.
Chalk, immediately and unmistakably. A lovely nose with light floral notes lifted by citrus zest and a touch of stone fruit.
A lovely, open nose offering plenty of orchard fruit: crisp apple, bright citrus and ripe plum, drawn together by a chalky, mineral edge that carries through to the finish.
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