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Wine Description
The Story
This Champagne is produced from a one-hectare parcel owned by Salon: "Salon’s garden", and from 19 other smaller parcels in Mesnil-sur-Oger, chosen by Aimé Salon at the beginning of the century. The wines are cellared in the bottle for an average of 10 years, gaining in complexity and finesse.
The proof that memory and history are important is shown by the bottles in the cellars from nearly all the vintages that have ever been produced at S...
Wine Information
1988 / After a mild and particularly rainy year, dry months alternated with wet months until ripeness.
The vegetative period of the vine was thus favoured by normal rainfall and rather high pressure. Harvesting took place in good weather, apart from a few scattered showers. Although words like "commonplace" and "average" were often employed to illustrate the development of 1988, the wines surprised by their strong and assertive personality. 1...
Vintage 1988
CHAMPAGNE: From this year, the most classic and refined champagnes were produced. Champagnes are long-lived and mature slowly to their peak.
Winter and spring were fairly mild. Inflorescences began in good weather in June. Already during the next month, the cloud masses swarmed to the Champagne province. Finally, the sky broke right before harvest. The harvest remained smaller than in the previous year. Even though the weather was unstable,...
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Average Bottle Price
| 2015 | 2012 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 583€ +38.5% | 421€ +5.8% | 398€ +167.1% | 149€ +58.5% | 94€ |
This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.