Winery Billecart-SalmonGrande Cuvée Brut Champagne
Sparkling wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Chardonnay and the Pinot noir.
In the mouth this sparkling wine is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
This wine generally goes well with pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
The Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of the Winery Billecart-Salmon is in the top 60 of wines of Champagne.
Taste structure of the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne from the Winery Billecart-Salmon
Light | Bold | |
Soft | Acidic | |
Gentle | Fizzy |
In the mouth the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Billecart-Salmon in the region of Champagne is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Billecart-Salmon in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of cream, cherry or citrus and sometimes also flavors of smoke, apples or peach.
Food and wine pairings with Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne
Pairings that work perfectly with Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne
Original food and wine pairings with Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne
The Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne of Winery Billecart-Salmon matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of bare-assed cockerel (ardennes), sushi cake or chicken with scampi for christmas.
Details and technical informations about Winery Billecart-Salmon's Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Grande Cuvée Brut Champagne from Winery Billecart-Salmon are 1990, 1998, 1996
Informations about the Winery Billecart-Salmon
The Winery Billecart-Salmon is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in the of Champagne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Champagne
Champagne is the name of the world's most famous Sparkling wine, the appellation under which it is sold and the French wine region from which it comes. Although it has been used to refer to sparkling wines around the world - a point of controversy and legal wrangling in recent decades - Champagne is a legally controlled and restricted name. See the labels of Champagne wines. The fame and success of Champagne is, of course, the product of many Complex factors.
The word of the wine: Effervescent
Any wine loaded with CO2 (carbon dioxide), which is revealed in the form of bubbles, reinforcing the freshness effect in the mouth. This gas production is the result of what is called the second fermentation in the bottle. It occurs in champagnes and sparkling wines such as crémants.
