2013 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  4/19/2024 - Alex Barbera Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Großartig- Blockbuster-Unterhaltung? Nein, eher ein richtig guter, tiefgründiger Film mit wohlbedachter Handlung und spannenden Wendungen und Überraschungen.

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  3/2/2024 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Assessing 2021 Burgundy-La Paulée de Los Angeles Grand Tasting (Fairmont Miramar, Santa Monica): Pale, fine bead, frothy. Herbal aromas. Precise lemon fruit, great acidic drive and stoniness. Embryonic but clearly a fantastic year for Salon. This was the one wine at the tasting that was impossible to retry, LOL.

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  3/2/2024 - TheFoodieTraveler Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Tasted at La Paulee Los Angeles and the Ponsot Dinner. Superb.

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  2/29/2024 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Nice bright yellow color, light bubbles. Very intense nose with butterscotch, yeast, lemon peel. The palate is very elegant, with just the right amount of acidity - I would say medium - nice, refined mousse, brioche, lemon peel, basil too I would say; this is very young still, still primary overall and with full body and white pepper balanced by the nice, oaky ending. The reductive nose is intense, while the palate is absolutely elegant. This will last for 2 decades and will likely improve quite a bit, but it's an outstanding, gorgeous wine already.

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  2/18/2024 - mflesh wrote: 95 Points

  So, I really happened to step in at just the right time to see this guy open! Enjoyed with some freshly shucked oysters, this was a treat. Very small bubbles on this beautifully colored and rather youthful Salon Champagne! The entry was still rather youthful and somewhat tart pear, green apple, and white peach flesh. Reductive style. Sort of made you pucker a little bit at first, but then this just explodes into a bouquet of fruits and wildflowers, lemon oil, a little herb foccacia, rosemary, white pepper and fennel. If I drank this even somewhat regularly, I'm rather certain I could probably nail this every time as it is just so unique but definitely not your daily or even quarterly drinker! Enjoyed with an 08 Piper Rare which was quite a bit different but really balanced out the playing field no doubt. A great Champagne as these are always a treat when they are served.

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