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2006 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart

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5/23/2024 - Terroir59 wrote: 93 points

This wine is in such a great drinking window now that I'll be drinking my remaining bottles sooner than later. With medium golden color, some orchard fruit aromas and flavors and some yeasty and vanilla notes, this wine is not blockbuster, but so balanced. In general, I've been disappointed with the well-regarded 2006 vintage in Champagne, but this bottle hit the mark. My only nit is that the finish, while long, has a touch too much lingering sweetness.

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2002 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François

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5/20/2024 - Cailles wrote: 94 points

Tasted blind. No detailed notes taken. This Champagne is all about finesse, like to drinking a cloud. Yet, it possesses sufficient acidity and tension to maintain balance. It exudes a very romantic character. While it may not be my preferred style, its greatness is undeniable. 94/95pts.

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2002 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François

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5/22/2024 - N.Bonaparte wrote: 94 points

2 years since my last bottle and way more accessible this time with large Riedel somm red burg glasses. This needed 20 min in the glass to fully open up. Very well balanced with nice depth and finish. Quite tart. This is certainly in its prime with a decade plus left of optimal drinking. This still falls short of the 2002 Krug and Cristal. However, given the price difference, this provides way better value. Revisit 2025

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1996 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Grande Cuvée

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5/22/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 points

Nose of hazelnut, mushroom and marzipan.

Beautiful palate, with fine and elegant effervescence and dense juice with very nice acidity. The fresh mushroom dominates, but the whole remains elegant and terribly tasty. Very nice maturity with a complexity that appears with aeration, apple and pear baked in the oven, pastry and always this dominant mushroom. Great finish, creamy and elegant with a length of undergrowth.

Very beautiful champagne, which will gain nothing from being kept longer.

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2008 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Millésimé

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5/19/2024 - BLam Likes this wine: 90 points

Eric served this Champagne of 3L in Maggie's BD party, together with other 16 bottles of wines, for total 18 persons. What a party!

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2008 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Millésimé

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5/19/2024 - AboveAvgBro wrote: 93 points

Color of dark(er) golden straw. Definitely a color of aged champagne

Nose of Parmesan rind, salinity, and lemon zest

Taste of green apple, honey suckle, lemon zest, brioche, and a good streak of salinity.

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2012 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Grand Cru Cuvée Louis Salmon

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5/18/2024 - affordableCollector wrote: 97 points

rapid bubble stream. white gold, in color. chamomile, tangerine, tangelo, lime, peach, apple, yellow pear, spice, brioche, cream, nougat, chalk, mineral. lively citrus, cream, buttered toast, mineral, on the finish.

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2007 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon

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5/13/2024 - tastark Likes this wine: NR

Absolutely stunning, world class rose. Bright strawberry and apple on the nose. Very fine mousse. On the palate, lots of texture, dry extract, and chalkiness. Acidity for days. Presents very dry, but not sure on the dosage. Long, lingering finish. Exceptional.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Rosé

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5/13/2024 - andrewdodd86 Likes this wine: 95 points

Just the GOAT for NV rose champagne under $100

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Réserve

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5/13/2024 - diffwine wrote: 88 points

2019 Base Q3 2022 disgorgement.

I love Billecart’s wines and I’ve been hearing nothing but good things about this release of the Brut Reserve. I found it to be austere.

Might’ve been shut down, to me it didn’t offer much.

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2002 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François

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5/12/2024 - Collector1855 wrote: 94 points

Parker 100 Pointer Lunch, tasted blind: Lovely nose of bruised apples, spices. Solid, but outshined by the 2004 Clos de Goisses.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Rosé

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5/12/2024 - StewartWent wrote: 89 points

My 50th (from magnum)

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2008 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Millésimé

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5/9/2024 - The_Cat wrote: 93 points

Pale golden very complex lots if brioche. Full bodied with fine bubbles and very long finish.

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2006 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart

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5/8/2024 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 points

"Rousseau is for drinking" (La Trompette): Although I wasn't thoroughly ravished, and don't normally love this house, I was definitely a fan of this wine. Some gentle lime and buttered toast on the nose, which broadened out to become incresingly mealy. Nicely evolved on the palate - more than I had expected, in fact - with a touch of vanilla, some salted caramel, and a soft fizzy finish reminiscent of lemonade. This mature, elegant wine was delightful start to the lunch.

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2000 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart

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5/7/2024 - geraldsng wrote: NR

Wasn’t terribly convinced by the Billecart. First impression was a nice sensation of richness on the nose, but then the high dosage hits the palate out of whack. But it was enjoyable for the middle 30 minutes once you ignore the sugar, there’s probably a good amount of PN in it to give some tannins and red fruit character. Dense and long. But then I left a glass to track through dinner and as it warmed it turned more and more oxidative and ended up smelling like sherry.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Rosé

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5/6/2024 - thalver wrote: NR

This bottle was purchased about 4 years ago and laid down at proper cellar temp. Pale salmon in color, drinking well. This was surprisingly crisp and acidic. In no way was it troublesome, but this bottle drank like a very low dosage blanc de blanc.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Réserve

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5/5/2024 - Dobrie10 wrote: NR

Warm bread, almond, apple, and lemon. A bit of everything. Not overly complex, but enjoyable.

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1996 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Le Clos Saint-Hilaire

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5/4/2024 - Elvis1969 Likes this wine: 93 points

Mogen doft, honung på näsan, skönt söt beska, polkagris, choklad lång eftersmak.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Extra Brut Meunier Rendez-Vous No.3

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5/5/2024 - NTP718 wrote: 90 points

Good, not spectacular. Served ice cold. More fruit forward than I prefer.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Réserve

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5/3/2024 - bisky wrote: NR

Great balance between the yeasty notes and fruits. Acidity and fine bubbles all there, great for aperitif.

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Réserve

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5/4/2024 - Tgood wrote: NR

Leavened bread with a pretty good soak of lemon juice and hard twist of the peel - creamy density

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NV Billecart-Salmon Champagne Extra Brut Meunier Rendez-Vous No.3

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5/4/2024 - The_Cat wrote: 93 points

Very elegant red berry driven nose brioche fine bubbles well balanced acidity and very good length

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1996 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Le Clos Saint-Hilaire

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5/1/2024 - Juliansi Likes this wine: 93 points

Right after everyone was surprised that my bubbles aperitif was a Blanc de Noir.. this showed up!

Bottle 2,920 of 6,500 ever produced. When most large makers are doing 1 to 2 million bottles of their NV bubbles, this makes the BS CSH very rare indeed.

This iconic Clos St-Hilaire from Billecart Salmon is an old-vine, single vineyard Blanc de Noirs or 100% Pinot Noir. 1996 is a well regarded and phenomenal vintage. Whilst delicate, there is such great balance and depth in this champagne especially with the honey and white pear notes.

Complex nose which was somewhat fleeting at times, bursting out with florality then slightly closed. I did get hints of mature red apple which to me is a tell-tale of this being Pinot dominant, or even all Pinot!

Minerals and flowers appear after you give this some time to evolve, there is a light textured mouthfeel with the finest of bubbles. Drink up, I feel that this is towards the back-end of its best drinking plateau.

The appearance is between clear gold and caramel-like deep gold, with a fine mousse that quickly dissipates. There is still a light tickle of fine bubbles on the palate.

Some element of oxidisation is clearly there, as are the yeast type brioche notes which seem to grow increasingly complex.

Very interestingly, a 2009 Robert Parker review describes:
Billecart-Salmon’s 1996 Le Clos Saint-Hilaire has lost some of its youthful exuberance and the fruit now is a touch softer than it was a few years ago. The aromatics and overall balance remain seductive and utterly compelling.

The Clos Saint-Hilaire is the most delicate, ethereal of the three, and this old-vine, single-vineyard Blanc de Noirs, is another of the more accessible 1996s.

I also loved this HK review from Finewineexperience.com, which describes the vintage really well.

I recall that when good 1996s began appearing on the market in the early 2000s, there was a lot of excitement for this vintage.

Richard Juhlin exclaimed in 2002 that 1996 was ‘Probably one of the great vintages of all time. Such acidity, allied to such high alcohol potential, had not been seen since 1928, which should guarantee an unusual longevity.’

1996 Champagnes reminded me a bit of Germany’s much-prized Eiswein style Rieslings .. What you get is a luminous, vibrant, crystal clear but super concentrated expression of Riesling and place, as all the water-ice is left in the wine press, and only the essence is vinified.

Summer had been mostly warm to hot, while critically the northerly winds blew (concentrating the sugars, but also the acidity), and September nights were cold, further ensuring acids didn’t drop too far.

Champagne writer Peter Liem describes the result, 1996 ‘was essentially unique—nobody had ever seen a vintage with the same combination of high ripeness and high acidity. Producers were thrilled with the extraordinary phenomenon of “10/10” (10 degrees of potential alcohol and 10 g./l. of acidity), which involved sugar levels comparable to those of 1989 and 1990 but also acidity levels of vintages such as 1986 or 1980.’

The north wind concentrated the acidity, the flavors, the sugars in the berries. But the pitfall of ’96 was that it concentrated the oxidative compounds in the bad grapes, and these have evolved very rapidly.

This is why some wines are not yet ready to drink, while others are already over the hill. This is also why there are not many rosés from ’96, because of this oxidation in the pinot noir.

Thanks for your immense generosity, brother LMC. What a massive bottle to kick-start our evening celebrating RN's birthday and a belated repeat get-together for DQ's as well. Wonderful dinner over 5 hours at Stoked.

Stoked, KL, Malaysia
1st May 2024

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2013 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Brut Millésimé

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5/1/2024 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 93 points

Having enjoyed many of the Cuvée Nicolas Francois and Louis Salmon bottles from Billecart-Salmon, I was excited to dive into this rendition from the producer. Originally thinking this would still be quite early in its drinking window as far as vintage champagne goes, this proved to be an extremely approachable bottle after giving it some air time. Drinking it out of a Gabriel-Glas Universal glass, the nose was extremely expressive, boasting scents green apple, brioche, hazelnut and even a powerful white chocolate scent (possibly coming out of the majority of the blend being Pinot Noir?). The palate was packed with energy as orchard fruits - red apple - medlied with peach and grapefruit in the upfront before a lovely mid-palate packed in strength through brioche, smoke and flint notes. The finish had a distinct white pepper note that arose, which played well with the bottle's youthful acidity. Approachable now, but primed for shorter-term aging as well.

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2012 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon

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4/23/2024 - Sean Tay Likes this wine: 95 points

Pronounced nose intensity with notes of lemon, apple, pear, cherry biscuit and toast. 55% Chardonnay and 45% Pinot Noir.

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