BILLECART-SALMON RELEASES 200TH ANNIVERSARY CUVÉE
Champagne Billecart-Slamon has released its limited edition ‘Bicentenary Cuvée’ exclusively in magnums as it marks its 200th anniversary and has opened new cellars.
The launch of the limited edition wine was marked by a garden party in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ in June and the wine is now available in selected retailers around the world.
The Bicentenary Cuvée is a blend of wines from eight grand ...
It all began in 1818 when Nicolas François Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon founded a Champagne House that was above all conscious of the excellence of its wines. Since then, every member of the Billecart family has been committed to perpetuate the family tradition through standing by the immutable oath: ‘Give priority to quality, strive for excellence’. Proof of this eternal demand: the family garden at the Billecart-Salmon estate. This garden ...
The excellence of Champagne Billecart-Salmon is above all due to the knowledge of its men who cultivate with rigour an estate of 100 hectares and obtains its grapes from an area totalling 220 hectares, in 40 crus of Champagne region. The majority of the grapes used for vinification come from a radius of 20km around Epernay, where the Grand Crus of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier co-exist, in the mythical lands of the Montagne de Reims...
The House of Billecart-Salmon has preserved ancestral vinification methods handed down from generation to generation and constantly perfecting them. Always conscious to improve the quality of their champagne, in the fifties the House established the technique of chilling the must combined with the use of stainless steel tanks for a longer fermentation at a lower temperature. Over time, the wines conserve their freshness, the aromas intensify, ...
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