TASTING NOTES:
This has impressive ripe stone fruits on the nose with peaches, mangoes, melon and cherries. Really upbeat and attractive purity. The palate follows the same thread of fruit characters with a clever balance of flesh and crunch, a bright finish and good balance. Drink now. A blend of roughly equal thirds of pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier.
- James Suckling, 92pts
This bright champagne is sleek and mouthwatering, with tightly knit flavors of apricot glaze, biscuit, nectarine and verbena.Cut-cut and lacy on the finish.
This brilliant Billecart-Salmon is elegant and appetizing, with flavors of glazed apricots, biscuits, nectarines and verbena, with a beautiful freshness and a lace finish.
- Wine Spectator, 91pts
In the crisp, balanced style of the producer, this nonvintage Champagne is light, poised and elegant. It is satisfyingly mature with good acidity and minerality. Lively and perfumed, it is ready to drink. Editors' Choice.
- Wine Enthusiast, 90pts
WINEMAKER'S NOTES:
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. This cuvée contains 40% Pinot Meunier, 30% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. 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.
