2006 Billecart-Salmon "Le Clos Saint-Hilaire" Brut Blanc de Noirs Champagne

98VN

95RP

93DC

$411.99

This item is out of stock, would you like to save it and be notified when it's back?

Vinous

Reviewed July 2022

The 2006 Le Clos Saint-Hilaire is fabulous. In this radiant year, the Clos Saint-Hilaire has a touch more mid-palate sweetness and generosity, but that’s a good thing, as it balances some of the more austere leanings that can make young vintages hard to appreciate upon release. Apricot, lemon confit, ginger, graphite, spice and crushed rocks are strands in a gorgeous, captivating tapestry that dazzles right out of the gate. The precision here is just mind-blowing. Billecart's 2006 Clos Saint-Hilaire is a very special Champagne, that much is very clear. (AG)

Take it home. Or give it a cellar.

Take possession as soon as your order is ready, or choose managed storage with RareStorage.

60 days free on K&L purchases. Then $0.40 per bottle/month. $9.50 monthly minimum.

Explore RareStorage Details & rates

Professional Reviews

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 08/2022

Disgorged in November 2020 with two grams per liter dosage, Billecart-Salmon's newly released 2006 Brut Le Clos Saint-Hilaire is showing well, unwinding in the glass with aromas of pear, mirabelle plum, dried fruits, walnuts, bee pollen and spices. Full-bodied, layered and vinous, it's a concentrated, muscular young wine, allying maturing flavors with broad structural shoulders and racy acids and concluding with a long, resonant and slightly mordant finish. From a parcel planted in 1964 and vinified entirely in oak, this is a powerful Champagne of considerable presence that needs some more time on cork to unwind and round out. 95+ (WA)

Decanter

Review Date: 10/2021

Although it was disgorged in November 2020, Mathieu Roland Billecart has been keen to delay the release. The ageing post disgorgement is just as important as that before it and sometimes overlooked, he maintains. The wine has an attractive Welsh gold colour, a lively and persistent mousse, and seductive aromas of nectarine, greengage and Victoria plum. I even noted a hint of spearmint. The palate maintains a youthful nervosité; behind that generous fruit, including red fruit (cherry mainly), hints of brioche and hazelnut and then an authoritative finish. Great potential. (SF)

Notes

Only one press load of this all Pinot Noir masterpiece was made: 3,700 bottles. It comes from an under 1 hectare parcel planted like a garden in the middle of the Billecart property in Mareuil. The vines are all old massals that were planted in 1964 and the wine is completly barrel fermented, and dosed at just 2 grams per liter. This is a profound wine for the ages, with 13 years on the lees and immesne concentration and power... Yet somehow, it still finishes light! -Gary Westby

Details

Origin	Champagne, France
Type/Varietal	Chardonnay
Alcohol Content	12%
SKU	1629567