Billecart-Salmon - Brut Rose Cuvee Elizabeth Salmon 2012

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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.

Tasted from magnum. Alongside the main release in 75cl, a limited number of magnums of 2012 Elisabeth Salmon have been released simultaneously. The differences are marked – the magnum presents a hugely engaging sparky, spicy and charry energy that lifts up the Chardonnay presence in the wine and plays beautifully with the allspice, pepper and rose detail that sits above peach melba, raspberry and black cherry fruit. There is plenty of immediate pleasure in what is a medium-bodied, restrained take on 2012, although this is a wine that – especially in magnum – looks set for a long window of enjoyment with its delicately insistent tension. 55% Chardonnay from Chouilly, Avize, Cramant and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger with 45% Pinot Noir from Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Ambonnay, with 8.3% red wine addition from Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. 2.9% fermented in barrel, and released after 115 months on lees with a dosage of 3.8g/L. - Tom Hewson

The 2012 Brut Rosé Cuvée Elizabeth Salmon offers up hints of red berry fruit, ginger, spice, rosewater, mint and crushed flowers. There is a feeling of classic austerity that runs through the 2012. I would prefer to cellar this for at least a few years, as it is quite reticent at this stage. Chalk, mint, white pepper and bright saline accents linger on the pointed finish. Dosage is 3.8 grams per liter. Disgorged: first trimester 2023. - Antonio Galloni

 

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Producer	Billecart-Salmon
Country	France
Region	Champagne
Varietal	Champagne
Vintage	2012
Sku	21929
Size	750ml