1996 Billecart-Salmon Champagne Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart

Community Tasting Notes (109) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  4/25/2024 - hargy Likes this wine: 90 Points

  quite golden now and certainly mature with an edge of oxidation - a bit too much for me but I am sure some will love it

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  3/24/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Nose of delicious complexity: blend of citrus, orange peel, tropical fruits, chalk and jasmine.
  
  In the mouth, the effervescence caresses and awakens the taste buds with a beautiful touch, the juice is ample but with a beautiful fullness. The dosage is perfectly integrated and the wine unfolds its entire palette of patinated champagne with magnificent density and delicacy. Jasmine largely dominates, with crusts of baguette, a herbaceous hint, a zest of spice, sweet almond, pear, quince… The whole thing is perfectly regulated like on music paper. Large, intense and long finish, chalky and saline which stretches delicately.
  
  Great champagne.

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  3/1/2024 - Burgundy Al wrote: 92 Points

  Some Wine Tasted at the Acker La Paulée Auction (Maybourne Hotel - Beverly Hills CA): Tasted at auction. Very rich, fully mature. Very good volume.

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  11/1/2023 - KeithAkers wrote: 94 Points

  Post-Prelude 25-Nebbiolo B sides (DP's, Goose Hollow, Portland OR): This is so giving, generous, and balanced as it permeates in the glass with mature tones of honeydew, caramel apples, toasty notes, brioche, bosc pears, yellow flowers, and some almond paste. The Medium bodied feel is balanced and deft in the way that only a mature champagne can be along with integrated and crisp, high acidity. This is a beautifully mature champagne that is just sexy. That’s really all there is to it!

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  10/1/2023 - JulianSkeels wrote: 96 Points

  So much better than the 2002 rendition, brioche and chalk sour from the glass. Whilst not as deep looking as expected, in the mouth it is very broad and there is tonnes of fruit with a very dry chalky finish. Just lacks a long a detailed tail. Excellent fine mouse. Whilst great now I think this will actually improve further to almost 2030. An unexpected hit. 96+pts

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