Salon 2007 75cl

Description

New Listing. Price £725.00 + FREE Mainland UK Delivery.

Introduction:
The legacy and achievement of one man, the idiosyncratic Eugène-Aimé Salon, this is a wine forged in singularity. The fruit of a single grape: chardonnay; a single terroir: the Côte des Blancs; a single grand cru village: Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. And of course, a single vintage, declared only when certain, exacting conditions – those prescribed by Eugène-Aimé himself – are met.
Produced in minuscule quantities with meticulous care, Salon is as rare as it is refined. The ultimate insider’s champagne, Salon stands alone.
The 2007 vintage is the 41st Salon to be released from this tiny champagne house in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Blanc de blancs in its purest form, the wine bears all the hallmarks of a classic Salon – the unmistakeable bone structure, the delicate-decadent fragrance, the elegance belying power beneath. The 2007 also marks the last vintage for some time to be released in the 75cl bottle format. As a result, quantities are necessarily limited.
Tasting Notes:
The challenges of the 2007 growing season led to significant heterogeneity in style and quality across the Champagne region. Indeed some prominent houses did not even declare the vintage. The weather conditions favoured Chardonnay and the Côte des Blancs.
Salon has the bone structure, finesse and underlying power of the world’s greatest white wines. Much of this comes from its unique vineyards, their soils, aspect and meticulous viticulture; part comes from prevailing weather conditions, then there is winemaking expertise. In a vintage such as this, with its firm acid backbone, prolonged lees ageing is fundamental to quality and longevity; there can be no shortcuts.
Salon 2007 spent 10 years on its lees prior to disgorgement in Autumn 2017.
Didier Depond, the inimitable President of Champagne Salon, has called Salon 2007 ‘une lumière vive’ – a shining light – and there is indeed a radiant, uplifting quality to this vintage. On first tasting of the wine in May 2018, the wine showed the familiar Salon scent of jasmine, warm brioche and the signature twist of ginger. Tantalising with its complex flavours, its tiny bubbles rise forever in the glass. The palate is focused and pure, crystalline in form and sensation, the expression of Salon’s uncompromising terroir. Salon sur pointes, balletic in its simultaneous power and poise, this is a captivating wine with vitality and élan.