Salon
Champagne Brut Le Mesnil 2015
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| Denomination | AOC Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Brut |
|---|---|
| Alcohol content | 12.0% by volume |
| Area | Champagne region (France) |
| Grape varieties | 100% Chardonnay |
Description
"The first cult wine of the twentieth century", was defined by the writer Jay McInerney. Its history runs parallel to that of the twentieth century. It is a symbol of the hedonist years of the Belle Époque. The bottle seems to come out of a painting by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was only drunk by Maxim, between actors and intellectuals.
«Salon - said Depond - is a Blanc de Blancs unique in the world: only one vine, Chardonnay, from the only area of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, just one year. In the twentieth century it was produced 37 times. An average of 60 thousand bottles every 3 years. In the same period a billion bottles of other Champagne are sold. We are a drop in an ocean of bubbles. ».
Producer
Salon
From this winery
- Start up year: 1905
- Hectares: 11
Salon was founded in 1905 by the whim of a fur trader, Eugène-Aimé Salon, who bought a hectare in Le Mesnil-sur-Orger, on the Côte des Blancs. He died in 1943, a year before the Normandy landings. Among the partisans who help the Allies is Bernard de Nonancourt, who then joins the Abbé Pierre and General Leclerc.
Bernard enters the Nest of L'Aquila, Hitler's Alpine residence, in the Bavarian Alps, in Berchtesgaden. He arrives there crossing the mountain for 139 meters on an elevator covered with Carrara marble, brought by Mussolini, together with a red fireplace. And he discovers, together with many treasures stolen from France, 500 thousand bottles. Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne: Hitler's private cellar. There is a 1928 Salon match, stolen by the Nazis. Bernard tastes it and swears that Maison Salon will one day be his. Forty-three years later, in 1988, he succeeds. The former partisan, who became famous with the family business, Laurent Perrier, thus becomes the custodian of the orthodoxy of the most elite label of Champagne.
Salon is so evocative of the interweaving of history and society (when he hears the name McInerney thinks of "George Sand who entertains Flaubert and Turgenev, or Gertrude Stein who welcomes Picasso and Hemingway") that it is inevitable to associate him with great occasions. As was the Pandolfini auction at the Swiss Center in recent days (99% of the lots sold, € 420 thousand collected). To coax collectors willing to spend, with a nod to the batter, up to 6,930 euros for a bottle of 1971, there was Didier Depond, the president. With the ad of Ceretto Giacolino Gillardi, Paolo Baracchino and the ambassador of Champagne Andrea Gori. And above all there were sips of Salon 1983, 1987, 2002 (and also of Delamotte 1970 and 1999, sister cellar, identical territory, guide and property, Laurent Perrier). Read more
Bernard enters the Nest of L'Aquila, Hitler's Alpine residence, in the Bavarian Alps, in Berchtesgaden. He arrives there crossing the mountain for 139 meters on an elevator covered with Carrara marble, brought by Mussolini, together with a red fireplace. And he discovers, together with many treasures stolen from France, 500 thousand bottles. Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne: Hitler's private cellar. There is a 1928 Salon match, stolen by the Nazis. Bernard tastes it and swears that Maison Salon will one day be his. Forty-three years later, in 1988, he succeeds. The former partisan, who became famous with the family business, Laurent Perrier, thus becomes the custodian of the orthodoxy of the most elite label of Champagne.
Salon is so evocative of the interweaving of history and society (when he hears the name McInerney thinks of "George Sand who entertains Flaubert and Turgenev, or Gertrude Stein who welcomes Picasso and Hemingway") that it is inevitable to associate him with great occasions. As was the Pandolfini auction at the Swiss Center in recent days (99% of the lots sold, € 420 thousand collected). To coax collectors willing to spend, with a nod to the batter, up to 6,930 euros for a bottle of 1971, there was Didier Depond, the president. With the ad of Ceretto Giacolino Gillardi, Paolo Baracchino and the ambassador of Champagne Andrea Gori. And above all there were sips of Salon 1983, 1987, 2002 (and also of Delamotte 1970 and 1999, sister cellar, identical territory, guide and property, Laurent Perrier). Read more
Champagne region
Fish
Shellfish
| Name | Salon Champagne Brut Le Mesnil 2015 |
|---|---|
| Type | White biodynamic classic method sparkling wine brut |
| Denomination | Champagne AOC |
| Vintage | 2015 |
| Alcohol content | 12.0% by volume |
| Grape varieties | 100% Chardonnay |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne region |
| Vendor | Salon |
| Allergens | Contains sulphites |