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1996 Salon Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Chardonnay

  • France
  • Champagne
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Community Tasting Notes 594

  • aquacongas wrote: 97 points

    March 24, 2024 - not blind
    It starts to open now. Some honey notes and milk chocolate. Fresh. Same level as the Krug Clos d'Ambonnay 96 we had before. But completely different champagnes. 97

  • SimonG wrote: 93 points

    March 8, 2024 - Lunch at Noizé: Mid straw. Not many bubbles, made slightly worse by a detergent-tainted glass. Gains more energy and aroma when decanted into a different glass. Nicely rich now, the sharp cut of its youth transformed to a vanilla crème pat richness of middle aged chardonnay. A mineral line with some tang. Stylistically this is essentially pettilant white burgundy — B de M Corton Charlemagne from a ripe vintage. Twelve years on from my last encounter, and obviously the wine has evolved, become richer and less vibrant, but maybe lost some of its energy too. ****

  • BradE wrote:

    February 11, 2024 - Outstanding as usual.

  • KenK Likes this wine: 98 points

    January 12, 2024 - Another magnificent experience. Still very bright and clean with plenty of lively effervescence and brightness. Well defined and wonderful depth of fruit and stony vibrancy. Likely at peak, but should live on for at least another decade. Perfect wine for a perfect evening.

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  • jhngo Likes this wine: 93 points

    December 30, 2023 - strange one a bit chalky and tannic.

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    1/2/2024 (link)

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    Miscellaneous tasting notes, 11/21/2020 (link)

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    Salon, 1/22/2020 (link)

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    Vinous Table: Ristorante Osteria Carletti, Bedano, Switzerland (Mar 2018), 3/18/2018 (link)

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View From the Cellar

  • By John Gilman
    Sep/Oct 2016, Issue #65, The Bi-Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Review Autumn 2016

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    6/22/2016 (link)

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    Champagnes Salon & Delamotte 1959-2007 (Jun 2016), 6/1/2016 (link)

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JancisRobinson.com

  • By Julia Harding, MW
    4/13/2016 (link)

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JamesSuckling.com

  • By James Suckling
    3/30/2016 (link)

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  • By Allen Meadows
    Oct-15, Issue #60 (link)

    (Salon Brut "Le Mesnil" Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Champagne/Sparkling) Subscribe to see review text.

View From the Cellar

  • By John Gilman
    Jan/Feb 2013, Issue #43, Another Round of Champagne and Sparkling Wine More Superb Releases from Small Growers and Grand Marques

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    9th Annual Wine Dinner and Auction to Benefit The Mount Sinai Hospital (Feb 2012) (link)

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    Happy New Year 2012 - Juhlin Takes New York, 1/11/2012

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    10/14/2010 (link)

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    Checking in on the 1996 Champagnes (Sep 2010) (link)

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    Let's Play Two, 11/2/2009

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  • By John Kapon
    Hong Kong Diaries, 10/4/2009

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Champagne Warrior

  • By Brad Baker
    January 2009, Issue #1, The Top 50 Champagnes of 1996

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    The 1996 Champagnes Revisited (Jan 2009) (link)

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    La Paulee 2008 III, 3/30/2008

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  • By John Kapon
    New Year's Eve 2007, 1/2/2008

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Vinous

  • By Antonio Galloni
    A Holiday White Truffle Lunch, 12/1/2007 (link)

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Vintage Tastings

  • By John Kapon
    A Week of Golden Cellar Drinking, 11/3/2007

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  • By John Kapon
    La Paulee Part One, 3/19/2007

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  • By John Kapon
    New Years Eve 2006, 1/12/2007

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Vinous

  • By Josh Raynolds
    November/December 2006, IWC Issue #129 (link)

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ChampagneGuide.net

  • By Peter Liem
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Decanter

  • By Michael Edwards
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Rockss and Fruit

  • By Lyle Fass
    11/25/2007 (link)

    (Salon) Had two spectacular wines at my birthday party that were brought kindly and unexpectedly. The first was the finest bottle of 1996 Salon I have had up to this point. So clean and so perfect. Delicate as a feather. Truly Chevalier-like. Wistful wine with amazing delicacy, detail and finesse. Has years to go but is a linear, perfect beauty now.

  • By Lyle Fass
    10/29/2007 (link)

    (Salon) This wine was truly breathtaking as it had everything I look for in a profound wine. It was made from Chardonnay, it was Grand Cru and it was 1996. Nose of yeast, toast, some green apple and spice. But the story here was the palate. This was dense, ripe, yeasty, toasty and so full of flavor intensity it morphed with your mouth and all of a sudden your mouth turned in to 1996 Salon and there was no going back. Piercingly mineral with ripe, crunchy acids, some nice green fruit (by green I mean young) and an amazing finish that has multiple layers and when you think its done it is not. Keeps on giving. Obviously this wine is young and will knock you on your ass in twenty years but it is awfully tasty today. What a wine. I need to taste the 1996 Krug though as I hear it's the other contender for best of vintage.

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 1996
  • Type White - Sparkling
  • Producer Salon
  • Varietal Chardonnay
  • Designation Blanc de Blancs Brut
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country France
  • Region Champagne
  • SubRegion n/a
  • Appellation Champagne
  • UPC Codes 089419365993, 3418769690009, 3700092712719

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 382 (2%)
  • In Cellars 8,842 (56%)
  • Consumed 6,527 (41%)

Food Pairing

Community Recommendations

Caviar, Oysters, Appetizer, fresh seafood platter, Grilled lobster stuffed with crabmeat, Lobster, Scallops, seafood risotto, Shellfish, Sushi

Who Likes This Wine

100% Like It  112 votes

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