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Billecart Salmon Cuvee Nicolas-Francois Billecart 1995

HED99772 75cl 12%
£350.00
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Billecart-Salmon Cuvée Nicolas-Francois is a vintage, prestige-cuvée Champagne produced by Champagne Billecart-Salmon. This renowned Champagne House cultivates an estate of 100 hectares and obtains grapes from around 300 hectares across 40 crus of the Champagne region, spanning the vineyards of the Montagne de Reims, the Vallée de la Marne and the Côte des Blancs. Cuvée Nicolas François was created in 1964 as a tribute to the House’s founder. It is a blend of around 40% Chardonnay and 60% Pinot Noir, 83% from Grands Crus and 17% from Premiers Crus. Vinified, partially in traditional oak casks then given extended lees aging, this wine is a testament to the wine making and vineyards, giving great longevity. Now reaching full maturity the wine shows notes of butterscotch, cream and lemon citrus tart.
The 2007 Brut Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart is positively stellar. Elegant, polished and sophisticated, the 2007 dazzles with effusive aromatics and gorgeous balance. It"s not an obvious wine, though, but rather a Champagne built for long, patient cellaring. The 2007 is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay taken from Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Ambonnay, Verzenay and Verzy for the Pinots and Chouilly, Avize, Cramant and Mesnil for the Chardonnays. In other words, as good as it gets for villages. The wine was done mostly in tank with about 15% of the lots vinified in oak. Dosage is 6 grams per liter. (Originally published in May 2021) - Antonio Galloni - Complex aromas of strawberry, toast, toffee and earth. Concentrated, intensely flavored and dense, but also backward and refined. Very pinot noir today. This has excellent structure to support further development in bottle. Still a bit of unabsorbed acidity on the long finish. Showing much better than the bottle I sampled a year ago.
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Billecart-Salmon

Billecart-Salmon

This renowned Champagne House cultivates an estate of 100 hectares and obtains grapes from around 300 hectares across 40 crus of the Champagne region, spanning the vineyards of the Montagne de Reims, the Vallée de la Marne and the Côte des Blancs. WIth a history that stretches back to 1818, today the illustrious Maison Billecart Salmon is in the hands of 7th generation, Mathieu Roland-Billecart.

Offering a superb array of cuvées, from Brut Nature to Brut Réserve, Rosé to Vintage, this is a truly historic Champagne house. In 2018 the House celebrated 200 years since its establishment in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, producing a limited edition Bicentenary Cuvée from a special blend to mark the occasion. Purity of fruit, delicacy and terroir expression are key to the Billecart Salmon philosophy, using the traditional Champagne varietals - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier to create stand out traditional method sparkling wines.

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