2013 Billecart-Salmon "Cuvée Louis" Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne
97
Vinous
Review Date: 04/2025The 2013 Brut Blancs de Blancs Louis Salmon is an exceptional follow-up to the 2012. Naturally, the 2013 offers a bit more tension, cut and drive, all signatures of this late-ripening vintage. Chalk, slate, crushed rocks, citrus confit and hazelnut all race across the palate as the 2013 sizzles with tension from start to finish. This is still a baby. Give it time. Dosage is 4 grams per liter. Disgorged: January 2024. (AG)
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96
James Suckling
Review Date: 07/2025
Notes
Always one of the last to release their top wines, Billecart-Salmon aged this champagne for 114 months on the lees before disgorgement. It is all grand chardonnay from a roll call of the best villages in the region; 44% Cramant, 26% Chouilly, 25% Mesnil and 5% Oiry. They wanted to preserve the direct, fresh style of the 2013 vintage (the only October harvest in a generation) and vinified this wine entirely in stainless steel. It is dosed at 4g/l. -Gary Westby, K&L
Product Details
Origin: Champagne, France
Type/Varietal: Chardonnay
Alcohol Content: 12.5%
SKU: #1944124