1999 Billecart Salmon Blanc de Blanc
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Hailing from a richer, softer vintage, Billecart’s 1999 Brut Blanc de Blancs is now fully mature and drinking with notable generosity, emerging from the glass with a deep bouquet of dried apricot, sweet peach and tangerine, mingled with dried flowers, brioche and a top note of roasted cacao bean. On the palate, it is medium- to full-bodied, ample and fleshy, offering an enveloping, textural profile underpinned by ripe yet racy acidity and enlivened by a pinpoint mousse, concluding in a lemon-inflected finish, its brightness accentuated by largely blocked malolactic fermentation. Highly expressive yet comparatively low in acidity, it is showing beautifully today, even if it is somewhat less harmonious than the 1998 rendition. Composed of fruit from Chouilly, Cramant and Avize, with three-quarters vinified in stainless steel, it was disgorged in April 2012 with a dosage of six grams per liter.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Antonio Galloni, Vinous
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The 1999 Brut Blanc de Blancs is another deep, multi-dimensional wine from Billecart-Salomon, Here the fruit shows slightly more burnished tones, along with greater textural richness and weight, all while retaining surprising verve and cut. Roasted hazelnuts, smoke and pastry crust add complexity on the suave finish. This is Lot 265048 25010J. Disgorged May 14th, 2010.
The 1999 Brut Blanc de Blancs is another deep, multi-dimensional wine from Billecart-Salmon. Here the fruit shows slightly more burnished tones, along with greater textural richness and weight, all while retaining surprising verve and cut. Roasted hazelnuts, smoke and pastry crust add complexity on the suave finish. The vintage Blanc de Blancs is made from parcels in Avize, Chouilly and Mesnil. This is Lot 265048 25010J. Disgorged May 14, 2010. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2024. ||This is a fine set of new releases from Billecart-Salmon. I admire these Champagnes for their trademark crystalline purity and exceptional sense of balance. Wine Advocate.December, 2010
About the producer
Founded in 1818, Billecart-Salmon is one of the region's oldest continuously family-owned Champagne houses and has a fine reputation for crafting exceptionally elegant and pure Champagne wines.
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Blanc de Blancs