Champagne Billecart-Salmon Brut Rosé NV

Description

This is unquestionably the bench-mark for Rosé Champagne and certainly a Philglas & Swiggot favourite. Billecart-Salmon is one of the few remaining Champagne houses to be owned by the original family and was established in 1818 by Nicolas-François Billecart. Unusual in Champagne, most of Billecart-Salmon's fruit comes from its own vineyard holdings. There is real flavour and weight to this wine, a delicious creaminess brought to the blend by the unusually high Chardonnay component of 50%. A seductive and elegant champagne perfect as an aperitif but built with the weight to segue onto the first course.

Based on the 2018 vintage, Billecart’s new NV Brut Rosé incorporates 40% reserve wines and some 6% still red wine. Bursting with scents of sweet red berries, peonies, stone fruits, white cherries, freshly baked bread and spices, it’s medium to full-bodied, pillowy and charming, with a seamless and enveloping core of fruit and a lively, fine-boned profile. Drink 2022 - 2030, William Kelley, Wine Advocate.