2016 Billecart-Salmon Vintage

Secondary Description
Extra Brut
66% Pinot Noir/34% Chardonnay
Producer
Origin

Champagne, Champagne/sparkling wine, FRANCE

Colour
white
Wine Style
dry
Dominant Grape
Pinot Noir
Farming Style
conventional
Closure Style
cork
Maturity
drink or keep
Bottle size
75cl
Case Quantity
6
Alcohol
12%
Score
93 points, Tom Hewson, decanter.com, January 2024
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Billecart-Salmon Vintage

Media Reviews

Tom Hewson

Billecart-Salmon`s 2016 vintage continues the house`s drive to creatively lower dosage levels, coming in with just 1.9g/L in this year of extreme weather. The 2016 will be at its best from mid-2024 but is already showing a mature clementine and juicy apricot fruitiness, warmed up with ground nuts and fragrant raspberry. Neat and slightly reticent on release, there is a subtle insistency here, and it will lengthen and unfurl with more time on cork. The most impressive of Billecart`s recent vintage releases. Made with 100% grand cru fruit, 25% of which was vinified in small and large oak. 93 points