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Billecart-Salmon - Brut ReserveNV

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March 2025
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Billecart-Salmon - Brut Reserve label
  • Producer Billecart Salmon
  • Blend Chardonnay
    Pinot Meunier
    Pinot Noir
  • Country France
  • Region Champagne
  • UPC 0 15643 82088 5

Reviews

Wine Enthusiast 90

This producer's nonvintage cuvée showcases a blend of grapes from all the regions of Champagne. Rich with white stone fruit, it balances ripe acidity and a taut texture. This complex wine is ready to drink.

by RV, Wine Enthusiast , 2018

Wine Spectator 90

A firm and focused Champagne, with a minerally, chalk-tinged overtone and a lively mix of crushed black cherry, toast, candied pink grapefruit peel and apple blossom flavors.

by AN, Wine Spectator , 2018

Wine Advocate 90

The Billecart-Salmon NV Brut Réserve is a blend of 40% Pinot Meunier (sourced in the Vallée de la Marne and the Coteaux Sud d'Epernay), 30% Chardonnay (from different villages along the Marne) and 30% Pinot Noir (from the Montagne de Reims and the Grande Vallée de la Marne). The recent disgorgement from January 2018 is straw-yellow in color and based 40% on the 2015 harvest, with 60% of reserve wines. The result is a light and delicately fruity flavored cuvée with aromatic and spicy Pinot Meunier and redcurrant aromas intertwined with chalky expressions and notes of ripe pears and yeast. Round and fresh on the palate, this is a light, finessed, elegant, very delicate and harmoniously fruity Brut with a stunningly intense, persistent, well-structured and purely salty finish. Very stimulating as a soloist, aperitif or with lighter dishes.

by SR, Wine Advocate , 2018

Technical Details

Estate

The Champagne firm of Billecart-Salmon in Mareuil-sur-Äy was established in 1818 when Niçolas François Billecart married Elizabeth Salmon; it has remained independently controlled by the family ever since, even though the Frey Group have owned a 45 percent share since 2005. Today the house is managed by brothers François and Antoine Roland-Billecart, who represent the sixth generation. Production averages 1.7 million bottles per year.

Tasting notes

Fine bubbles which rise slowly, persistent mousse. Straw-colored. A nose of ripe pear with some touches of cut hay. Full fruit, but clean in the mouth. This cuvée contains 40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. All wines from the best sites in the department of the Marne, from more than twenty top vineyards in Champagne. The overall composition of this cuvée has not changed much for almost fifty years. Fresh and long tasting, the Brut Réserve may be drunk on all occasions.

Technical data

Dosage : 8g/l
Vinification in stainless steel tanks
Malolactic fermentation
50% to 60% reserve wines
Ageing on lees : 30 months