Billecart Salmon - Cuvee Elisabeth Salmon Brut Champagne Rose 2012 (750ml)
Price: $224.00
#86 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2024
| Producer | Billecart Salmon |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Champagne Blend |
| Vintage | 2012 |
| Sku | 8684 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 97 Points
This has a lovely copper color with aromas of cloves spiced apples raspberries gingerbread and pastries. Delicious yeasty and spicy undertones. Excellent density and focus with fine and firm bubbles yet it?s light on its feet and so fresh. Long chalky and salty at the end. Chardonnay and pinot noir. 3.8g/L dosage. Drink or hold.
twiThe Wine Independent: 96+ Points
Vibrant light coral colored with glints of rose gold the 2012 Elizabeth Salmon Brut Rosé is a youthfully exuberant 55% Chardonnay and 45% Pinot Noir blend coming from 85% Grand Cru and 15% Premier Cru vineyards in the exceptional 2012 vintage. 97% cold-fermented in stainless steel with a small 3% barrel vinified red it underwent partial malo-lactic fermentation and was finished to Extra-Brut with a 3.8 grams per liter of dosage. Aromatically coy at first it opens to alluring notes of dried blood orange slices apricot coulis Meyer lemon wafers with a whiff of butterscotch and white cardamom. Crisp and finely textured the light to medium-bodied palate laces up a subtle intensity of citrus peel morello red cherry and hints of ruby red grapefruit with an exuberant acid vibrancy that animates the pinpoint shimmery mousse. No doubt a very bright coquettish 12-year-old at the moment this 2012 Elizabeth Salmon is enjoyable but will take on more grace and even more personality with age. Disgorged in the first quarter of 2023. Drink now to 2040. Tasted June 2024. Reviewed by: Sarah Mayo Review date: 2024-06-20
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twiWine Enthusiast: 95 Points
#86 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections of 2024 First produced in 1988 and made only in top years this Champagne is named after the producer's founder. With age (more than nine years on lees) it has developed a patina of toastiness and roundness. There is a toasty character that chimes with this fine wine's crisp texture. Drink now. ? Roger Voss
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
Sleek and elegant with a seamless knit this is finely textured with the raw silk?like mousse carrying flavors of peach skin white cherry and toast point that show hints of white blossoms pickled ginger and oyster shell through the lasting finish. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Disgorged winter-spring 2023 (My Origin 121234). Drink now through 2035.?A.N.
