2004 Billecart-Salmon Brut Vintage
- Producer:
- Billecart-Salmon
- Origin:
-
Champagne,
Champagne/sparkling wine,
FRANCE,
- Wine colour:
- white
- Wine style:
- dry
- Dominant grape:
- Pinot Noir
- Closure style:
- cork
- Maturity:
- drink or keep
Uncorked:
Antonio Galloni:
The 2004 Brut Vintage is 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, partially fermented in barrel (20%) and bottled with no dosage. The wine reveals excellent up-front intensity in its ripe yellow fruit and broad-shouldered frame but then falls a bit short on the mid-palate. Compared to the finest wines here, the 2004 Brut Vintage offers a two, rather than three-dimensional sense of aromatic and flavor complexity. This is Lot. L 556997 32009J. Drink 2010-2016.
Scores
88 points, Antonio Galloni, Wine Advocate #186, Dec 2009