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salon, le mesnil-sur-oger grand cru, limited edition oenotheque assortment case 1000
ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE
100

1000 salon, le mesnil-sur-oger grand cru, limited edition oenotheque assortment case

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The Salon Cuvee 'S' Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut Oenothèque Set represents the best of Salon. It contains seven bottles from 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. It captures the unmistakable style that made Salon the Champagne titan it is today. Anyone interested in Champagne's first, finest, and most exclusive blanc de blancs should make space for this assortment case in their collection.

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ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Disgorged in January 2019 with six grams per liter dosage, Salon's 2008 Brut Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil is a striking wine, unwinding in the glass with scents of citrus oil, fresh bread, crisp green apple, white flowers, smoke and oyster shell. Full-bodied, layered and incisive, it's deep and concentrated, with a tightly coiled core of fruit that's underpinned by a racy spine of acidity. Seamless and unerringly precise, it concludes with a long and penetratingly mineral finish. Immense though its potential for aging is, its intensity and balance make it pleasurable as well as persuasive, even today. Given the eye-watering price of this magnum-only release, I was determined to hold the wine to the highest possible standards, but it surpasses even the prodigious 1996 and surely ranks as the finest Salon since at least the 1970s. In short, this is a Blanc de Blancs that admits no argument.