Winery Billecart-SalmonClos Saint-Hilaire 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 Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne of the Winery Billecart-Salmon is in the top 50 of wines of France and in the top 10 of wines of Champagne.
Taste structure of the Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne from the Winery Billecart-Salmon
Light | Bold | |
Soft | Acidic | |
Gentle | Fizzy |
In the mouth the Clos Saint-Hilaire 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 Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne of Winery Billecart-Salmon in the region of Champagne often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, cream or citrus and sometimes also flavors of smoke, apples or peach.
Food and wine pairings with Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne
Pairings that work perfectly with Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne
Original food and wine pairings with Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne
The Clos Saint-Hilaire 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 rabbit with hunter's sauce, sea bass in mustard and rosemary wrappers or mussels with beer.
Details and technical informations about Winery Billecart-Salmon's Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne.
Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay
Whites with many faces: mineral and taut at Chablis (lemon, green apple, flint), opulent and buttery at Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet (hazelnut, brioche, yellow fruits), tense and chalky in Champagne (Blanc de Blancs). Also vinified sparkling and widely exported (Sonoma, Margaret River, Casablanca). A Burgundian variety, a cross of Pinot Noir × Gouais Blanc, half-sibling of Aligoté.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Clos Saint-Hilaire Brut Champagne from Winery Billecart-Salmon are 1995, 2002, 2008, 2006 and 1998.
Informations about the Winery Billecart-Salmon
The Winery Billecart-Salmon is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 28 wines for sale in the of Champagne to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Champagne
World benchmark sparkling wines: fine bubbles, citrusy tension, notes of brioche, toasted almond, white flowers and white-fleshed fruits after ageing on lees. Three grapes blended or solo: fleshy Pinot Noir (38%), fruity Meunier (33%), chiselled Chardonnay (28%). From straight Blanc de Blancs to vinous Blanc de Noirs, from non-vintage Brut to age-worthy Millésimé. AOC since 1927, 34,300 ha on chalk, 17 Grands Crus and 44 Premiers Crus.
The word of the wine: Tasting
Sensory analysis of the wine according to a precise procedure and steps, using an appropriate vocabulary.
