
2013 Billecart-Salmon Louis Salmon Blanc de Blanc
2013 Billecart-Salmon Louis Salmon Blanc de Blanc
6904 Miramar Road
6904 Miramar Road
San Diego CA 92121
United States
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97 Points - Vinous: The 2013 Brut Blancs de Blancs Louis Salmon is an exceptional follow-up to the 2012. Naturally, the 2013 offers a bit more tension, cut and drive, all signatures of this late-ripening vintage. Chalk, slate, crushed rocks, citrus confit and hazelnut all race across the palate as the 2013 sizzles with tension from start to finish. This is still a baby. Give it time.
97 Points - James Suckling: A restrained wine with aromas of lemons, chalk, lemon leaves and minerals. An elegant and Intense palate with bright flavors of green apples, citrus and toast. Fine pinprick bubbles. It’s zesty and long with white chocolate notes. Disgorged January 2024. Drink or hold.
96+ Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The reference point of Billecart-Salmon’s contemporary direction, the 2013 Blanc de Blancs Louis Salmon, disgorged in January 2024 with four grams per liter dosage, stands as the most characterful wine of the new lineup, expressing itself from the glass with aromas of early-blooming white flowers, lemon oil, nashi pear and almond paste mingled with cardamom, oyster shell and freshly baked bread. On the palate, it is medium- to full-bodied and elegantly muscular, with a tensile core of crystalline purity, racy acids and ample chalky extract. Harvested in October, it derives from the communes of Cramant, Chouilly, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oiry and was vinified entirely in stainless steel with full malolactic fermentation in pursuit of greater harmony in a cool-profile vintage such as this. It is slightly more elegant and simultaneously less powerful than the 2012 rendition, yet it remains equally compelling.
