Toast, honey, peach and citrus flavors come together in this balanced, elegant wine. A round, generous style, offering peach, candied lemon and honey flavors on a creamy texture.
The first release from Champagne Armand de Brignac, the Brut Gold remains the most iconic cuvée in the range. Rich with the old-world tradition of champagne blending, it is a trio of vintages from some of the most lauded terroirs of the region, resulting in a cuvée expressing vibrant and fresh fruit character with a soft texture.Part owned by Hip Hop artist Jay Z, the iconic Ace of Spades Brut Gold and Rose have become one of the most popular champagnes in the world.
La Rue des Noyers is the core of Benoît Déhu’s philosophy. Named after a former walnut grove, this single-vineyard Champagne expresses terroir in its purest, most unfiltered form.
Tasting Review Tense, precise, and quietly intense. This Champagne balances bright fruit with mineral tension and a serious, almost contemplative structure. It’s juicy yet strict — with a pulse you feel more than taste.
Aromas Yellow apple, pear, white stone fruit. Hints of almond, lemon peel, chalk, dried herbs, and a touch of smokiness.
Taste Fresh and vibrant on the attack, then evolves into a creamy, mineral core with a hint of grapefruit zest. The finish is long, structured, and quietly powerful.
Food Pairing • Scallop or sea bass carpaccio • Ash-covered goat cheese • Grilled fish with olive oil • Turkey fillet with citrus glaze • Orange tart or sugar-free almond biscuit
Plenty of ripe strawberries and wild raspberries on the nose here. Really attractive and vibrant in the mouth with fresh wild strawberries. It also shows a fleshy, fresh-fruit texture.
Fine bubbles which rise slowly, persistent mousse. Straw-colored. A nose of ripe pear with some touches of cut hay. Full fruit, but clean in the mouth. All wines from the best sites in the department of the Marne, from more than twenty top vineyards in Champagne. The overall composition of this cuvée has not changed much for almost fifty years.
Fresh and long tasting, the Brut Réserve may be drunk on all occasions.
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Champagne Billecart-Salmon 2008 Nicolas Francouis Brut
A beautiful golden yellow, glinting with bright sparkles, is set off by an eruption of finely chiseled bubbles. Both complex and refreshing on the nose with fine, intense notes of orchard fruits, combined with nuts and stone fruit (lightly roasted flaked almonds, frangipani, candied mandarin peel) and accentuated by the radiance of a floral persistence (acacia flower and rose petal). The fullness of the wine (fresh yellow raspberry, fresh quince, honey biscuits, and lemon caviar) is symbolized by fresh fig, licorice, and pigeon heart tomato. It has a texture with a strong personality, limestone and an incredible intensity curbed by its fully integrated low dosage. The finish develops towards notes of toasted bread and bergamot. This is an impressive vintage with great depth. Tense and mineral, it is characterized by an elegant vinosity and offers you all the distinction of a well-aged champagne.
Served at cellar temperature (11°C to 12°C), this cuvée will bring out the flavors of an excellent sole in lemon butter or a delicious veal chop with chanterelle mushrooms.
The Anniversary Cuvee is a blend of Pinot Noir from only Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in the Montagne de Reims, and Grand Cru Chardonnay in the Cote des Blancs fermented in (nearly) all stainless steel, and aged on the lees for more than five years. The final result is at once serious and a touch baroque, bursting with yellow peach and red berry fruit, sandy shortbread, and honeysuckle, before curling around an intensely chalky finish. There is terrific density to the material here, and good acidity. This is tremendous now and will keep for years to come.
Pale yellow colour. Constant and small bubble. Foam of great persistence. Very fruity aromas, especially of white fruit (acid apple and pear) on shades of peel of citrics and white flowers. In the background, some spicy notes owed to ageing (cinnamon) and cookies. It is a well-structured "cava" in the mouth. Well picked up over its acidity that tenses it overall from beginning to end. The bubble lends a creamy feeling, and it gives volume and softness to the structure that returns acidity and widens the aromas of white fruits and spices that are repeated in the mouth. Its balanced end harmonizes its acidity, and leaves a memory of freshness and volume owing to its light sugar content
Bollinger's 2008 La Grande Année is superb, wafting from the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit, ripe lemons, honeycomb, warm biscuits, dried white flowers and a delicate top note of walnuts and fino sherry. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and vinous, with a beautifully refined mousse, superb concentration at the tightly wound core, incisive acids and a supremely elegant intermingling of Bollinger's oxidative stylistic signatures with fresh, vibrant fruit. The finish is long, precise and chalky. This is a Grande Année built for the cellar—the real excitement will come with a bit more bottle age—but this is already a thrilling Champagne in the making. Finished with eight grams per liter dosage, it was disgorged by hand in July 2018. This is also the first vintage of Grande Année to be bottled in Bollinger's new narrower-necked 1846 bottle, which should make for a slower evolving wine.-William Kelley, Mar 2019 Reviewed by: The Wine Advocate- 97 pts
