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1997 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Chardonnay

  • France
  • Champagne
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Community Tasting Notes 271

  • TWSA Likes this wine: 93 points

    March 18, 2024 - Nose: honey, brioche caramel, mature apple, fig, cream, pineapple, white flower
    Notes: some beautiful aroma upon opening, this wine is demonstrating the best possible from a blanc de blanc with excellent finesse and balance. This Salon started to show its best after 1 hour of opening and it is indeed quite ready for consumption. Showing great purity and preciseness this is probably as good a Blanc de Blanc can get. I don't think one should anticipate too much upside from cellaring this wine and in fact I think this might be a little more advanced than I originally imagined but there's also no rush to finish up right away, there should be another good 5-7 years to go in terms of optimal drinking time.
    Drink: now - 2031
    Rating: 93

  • Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 points

    March 18, 2024 - Very elegant and focused with an alluring nose. Not as nutty and expressive on the palate compared to a bottle I recently had. 92-93

  • Genghis88 Likes this wine: 91 points

    February 16, 2024 - Mom's 82 birthday at Joe Fortes, then home to Breka Breads London Fog Donuts

    Clean, and clear, faint yellow in color.
    Lemon poppy seed cake, brioche, nice salinity. The nose is beautiful!
    Still tight and astringent. Bracing acidity. Still incredibly youthful. Needs more time. Lovely bottle. Is it worth the price???? I am not sure. (-1) point for price.

  • wineton.mee wrote: 94 points

    January 28, 2024 - I didn’t expect this to show this young, hardly any signs of age at all. Searing acid and bright fruit, lots of intensity and concentration framed with deft touches of creamy vanilla oak. There is no doubting the quality here. Legs to go for another decade where l think it’ll show even better than today.

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  • Burgnick Likes this wine: 93 points

    January 26, 2024 - Lovely bread crumb, brioche and nut fruit. A leaner vintage but very alluring.

    1 person found this helpful Comment
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    9/18/2016 (link)

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    6/12/2016 (link)

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  • By Julia Harding, MW
    4/13/2016 (link)

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Vinous

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    Four Decades of Champagne Salon and Delamotte: 1970-2004 (May 2014) (link)

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JancisRobinson.com

  • By Richard Hemming, MW
    11/28/2012 (link)

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Champagne Warrior

  • By Brad Baker
    June 2011, Issue #11, Top Wines from 1997 and 1998: A Look Back at Two Overlooked Vintages

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    Cruising in HK, 12/5/2010

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Vinous

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  • By John Gilman
    Sep/Oct 2010, Issue #29, The Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Addendum

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Burghound

  • By Allen Meadows
    October 2009, Issue #36 (link)

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  • By John Gilman
    Sep/Oct 2009, Issue #23, The Champagne and Sparkling Wine Addendum- Another Round of Fashionably Late-Arriving Bubbles

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Champagne Warrior

  • By Brad Baker
    July 2009, Issue #3, Champagne Tasting Notes

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RJonWine.com

  • By Richard Jennings
    4/13/2014 (link) 98 points

    (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Light medium lemon yellow color with few, steady, tiny bubbles; aromatic, savory, autolytic, hazelnut, sauteed mushroom nose; rich, gorgeous, creamy textured, complex, autolytic, lemon peel, ginger, mineral, almond palate; long finish (disgorged in 2009)

  • By Richard Jennings
    2/27/2011 (link) 94 points

    (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Light green-tinged yellow color; nice yeasty, light mushroom, tart citrus nose; tight, tasty, baked lemon, yeasty, mineral, white chocolate palate, needs 2-3 years; medium-plus finish 94+ points

  • By Richard Jennings
    10/23/2010 (link) 94 points

    (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Light yellow color; yeast, mineral nose; tasty, toasty, yeasty, mineral, tart apple palate; medium-plus finish

  • By Richard Jennings
    6/13/2010 (link) 95 points

    (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Light golden yellow color; toasty, yeasty, baked lemon nose; delicate and delicious, tart lemon, mineral, kumquat palate; medium-plus finish 95+ pts.

Garagiste

  • By Jon Rimmerman
    12/31/2009 (link)

    (SALON BdB Champagne) Salon Dear Friends, Our final offer of the year highlights the disparity of wine pricing across the United States with an exclamation mark. As a punctuation on 2009, this wine deserves a special mention. I considered yesterday's Penfolds offer our best deal of 2009 but I'm sure many of you will will vote for this. While in NY for the Blue Hill event a few weeks ago, I was fortunate to try the 1990 Krug, 1995 Krug, 1996 Krug, 1996 Salon and several examples from Jacques Selosse (reported on a few weeks ago) - I also sampled this wine and immediately set out to find a parcel for you. While the 1996 Salon is a magical wine, the 1997 left an indelible impression on my gustatory memory and it may actually be worth the price. I attempted to establish a tariff of $199 but this was as close as I could get (the cellar door price is nearly $350). There is a sense of whimsy and frivolity, even a dose of the flamboyant in the 1997 Salon but do not be fooled - under the obvious surface lie layers of mineral swathed, nearly perfect fruit that is suspended in a buoyant frame of the old and new. It is a gorgeous, lilting and festive example of Salon that combines a sense of the exotic with an Alice in Wonderland-like presence that is in direct opposition to the more compact and endless 1996. This wine is drinking beautifully now but it will also age for another decade with ease and probably longer. While the 1996 version may last longer, tasted side-by-side, the 1997 will undoubtedly be preferred at this stage by a wide range of astute palates. A glorious and fanciful experience that titillates the senses and reminds the jaded palate of how exciting wine can be. While readily available a few weeks ago, the 100pt score (albeit from The Wine News, but it's still 100pts) has caused an interesting rush on this wine (by contrast, they gave the fabulous 1996 Salon 95pts). I was going to wait to offer the 1997 until mid-January but time is now of the essence - especially at this price (less than half of what many NY merchants were charging when I tasted it a few weeks ago). I realize this is still quite costly so I will reprint a number of critical reviews below for a second, third and fourth opinion: It would have been delightful to have this in stock for this evening (it will be here in approximately one week) but there is certainly no rush to consume it. With that, we bid adieu to 2009 and look very forward to 2010... FIRST COME FIRST SERVED up to 96/person until we run out - we cannot ship this wine back to France This parcel has impeccable provenance - it is set to arrive in a week or so: 1997 Salon Champagne (Blanc de Blancs) Le Mesnil-sur-Oger 750ml(BH95)(WN100) Thank you, Jon Rimmerman Garagiste Seattle, WA Champ8410

RJonWine.com

  • By Richard Jennings
    10/18/2008 (link) 93 points

    (Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut) Pale yellow color; light floral, honeysuckle, lemon and brioche nose; delicate, tart peach, lemon and mineral palate with good acidity and balance; medium finish 93+ pts.

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 1997
  • Type White - Sparkling
  • Producer Salon
  • Varietal Chardonnay
  • Designation Blanc de Blancs Brut
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Champagne
  • SubRegion n/a
  • Appellation Champagne
  • UPC Codes 3418760000890, 3418769670001, 3700092712719

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 77 (2%)
  • In Cellars 2,640 (62%)
  • Consumed 1,531 (36%)

Food Pairing

Community Recommendations

Foie Gras, Breka Breads baked goods, Duck Mousse, Oysters, Poultry, Queso Roncal Soufflé

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99% Like It  96 votes

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