Billecart-Salmon Brut Reserve 750ml NV (750ml)

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Producer	Billecart-Salmon
Country	France
Region	Champagne
Varietal	Champagne Blend
Sku	FR-SPK15
Size	750ml

 

A wine with serious structure, this Brut Reserve Champagne reminds you of a freshly sliced peach cobbler, dusted with candied orange peel and touched with cream. A blend of 40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, and 30% Chardonnay that's sourced from the Champagne region's finest vineyards, this tangy, precise and energetic Brut Reserve offers tiny bubbles and a beautiful mousse that lingers on the finish. The bouquet is floral and fresh, bursting with notes of pear, apple, white peach, citrus, and hints of ginger and biscuit, and the wine's refreshing, clean palate offers a profusion of ripe apricot, pineapple, pear, and Meyer lemon. A wine of power, finesse and balance, with a satisfying flinty finish, this Champagne suits all occasions, and it will pair perfectly with a range of dishes, from appetizers to roasted chicken to brunch.

Billecart-Salmon Champagne was the very first wine IWM carried that comes from outside Italy. It's a testament to this Champagne house that it was the first, and that all these years later IWM still champions it. One of the few remaining family-owned-and-operated, medium-sized Champagne houses, Billecart-Salmon, which got its name when Nicolas Francois Billecart married Elisabeth Salmon, is located in the renowned Champagne area of Mareuil-sur-Ay, France. Billecart-Salmon has a discernable house style, one that relies heavily on really excellent grapes, most of which they grow themselves on 15 hectares of vineyards, the rest deriving from very trusted farmers. Billecart-Salmon harvests its grapes early to ensure an elegant, acidic and structured Champagne, suitable for aging, and it uses a process known as double cold settling, by which it rests the first press in cold tanks before racking it again to let it settle and precipitate again, thus naturally removing unwanted solids, and wil