1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Decanter

• By Charles Curtis MW
  Miscellaneous tasting notes, 11/21/2020, (See more on Decanter...)

  (Salon, Cuvée S, Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs, Champagne, France, White) Login and subscribe to see review text.

• By Charles Curtis MW
  Miscellaneous tasting notes, 11/21/2020, (See more on Decanter...)

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• By Yohan Castaing
  Salon, 1/22/2020, (See more on Decanter...)

  (Salon, Cuvée S, Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs, Champagne, France, White) Login and subscribe to see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  Vinous Table: Ristorante Osteria Carletti, Bedano, Switzerland (Mar 2018), 3/18/2018, (See more on Vinous...)

  (Salon Cuvée S Sparkling White) Login and sign up and see review text.

View From the Cellar

• By John Gilman
  Sep/Oct 2016, Issue #65, The Bi-Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Review Autumn 2016

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JancisRobinson.com

• By Jancis Robinson, MW
  6/22/2016, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Salon, Le Mesnil Blanc De Blancs Brut Champagne White) Subscribe to see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  Champagnes Salon & Delamotte 1959-2007 (Jun 2016), 6/1/2016, (See more on Vinous...)

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JancisRobinson.com

• By Julia Harding, MW
  4/13/2016, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Salon, Brut Champagne White) Subscribe to see review text.

JamesSuckling.com

• By James Suckling
  3/30/2016, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)

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Burghound

• By Allen Meadows
  Oct-15, Issue #60, (See more on Burghound...)

  (Salon Brut "Le Mesnil" Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Champagne/Sparkling) Subscribe to see review text.

View From the Cellar

• By John Gilman
  Jan/Feb 2013, Issue #43, Another Round of Champagne and Sparkling Wine More Superb Releases from Small Growers and Grand Marques

  (Salon “Le Mesnil” Brut) Login and sign up and see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  9th Annual Wine Dinner and Auction to Benefit The Mount Sinai Hospital (Feb 2012), (See more on Vinous...)

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Vintage Tastings

• By John Kapon
  Happy New Year 2012 - Juhlin Takes New York, 1/11/2012

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JancisRobinson.com

• By Jancis Robinson, MW
  10/14/2010, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Salon Champagne White) Subscribe to see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  Checking in on the 1996 Champagnes (Sep 2010), (See more on Vinous...)

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Vintage Tastings

• By John Kapon
  Let's Play Two, 11/2/2009

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• By John Kapon
  Hong Kong Diaries, 10/4/2009

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Champagne Warrior

• By Brad Baker
  January 2009, Issue #1, The Top 50 Champagnes of 1996

  (Salon Blanc de Blancs) Login and sign up and see review text.

• By Antonio Galloni
  The 1996 Champagnes Revisited (Jan 2009), (See more on Vinous...)

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Vintage Tastings

• By John Kapon
  La Paulee 2008 III, 3/30/2008

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• By John Kapon
  New Year's Eve 2007, 1/2/2008

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• By Antonio Galloni
  A Holiday White Truffle Lunch, 12/1/2007, (See more on Vinous...)

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Vintage Tastings

• By John Kapon
  A Week of Golden Cellar Drinking, 11/3/2007

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• By John Kapon
  La Paulee Part One, 3/19/2007

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• By John Kapon
  New Years Eve 2006, 1/12/2007

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• By Josh Raynolds
  November/December 2006, IWC Issue #129, (See more on Vinous...)

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ChampagneGuide.net

• By Peter Liem
  (See more on ChampagneGuide.net...)

  (Salon Brut Blanc de Blancs) Subscribe to see review text.

Decanter

• By Michael Edwards
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  (Salon, Cuvée S, Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs, Champagne, France, White) Login and subscribe to see review text.

RJonWine.com

• By Richard Jennings
  7/18/2010, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 96 points

  (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Bright light yellow color; lovely, autolytic, lemon, dried lemon, mineral nose; tasty, yeasty, tart lemon, baked lemon, mineral, clementine palate; long finish

• By Richard Jennings
  9/18/2009, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

  (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Light yellow color; nice apricot, citrus, mineral nose, with lift; tight, tart, chiseled citrus, mineral palate; medium-plus finish 93+ pts.

Rockss and Fruit

• By Lyle Fass
  11/25/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

  (Salon) Had two spectacular wines at my birthday party that were brought kindly and unexpectedly. The first was the finest bottle of 1996 Salon I have had up to this point. So clean and so perfect. Delicate as a feather. Truly Chevalier-like. Wistful wine with amazing delicacy, detail and finesse. Has years to go but is a linear, perfect beauty now.

• By Lyle Fass
  10/29/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

  (Salon) This wine was truly breathtaking as it had everything I look for in a profound wine. It was made from Chardonnay, it was Grand Cru and it was 1996. Nose of yeast, toast, some green apple and spice. But the story here was the palate. This was dense, ripe, yeasty, toasty and so full of flavor intensity it morphed with your mouth and all of a sudden your mouth turned in to 1996 Salon and there was no going back. Piercingly mineral with ripe, crunchy acids, some nice green fruit (by green I mean young) and an amazing finish that has multiple layers and when you think its done it is not. Keeps on giving. Obviously this wine is young and will knock you on your ass in twenty years but it is awfully tasty today. What a wine. I need to taste the 1996 Krug though as I hear it's the other contender for best of vintage.