Salon Cuvee 'S' Le Mesnil Blanc De Blancs Brut 2015 - Champagne, France

For its 45th release, Salon steps back in time as the 2015 iteration of its Cuvee 'S' Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut calls to mind Aimé Salon’s original 1905 masterpiece: a single-cru, single-grape blend made purely for his own drinking pleasure. It’s bright and focused, hitting a stylistic balance between the mineral-led flavour of cooler years and the open-knit, accessible texture expected from warmer vintages. About Salon Salon’s unique approach to Champagne is in its singularity: a single grape variety is taken from a single terroir, always from a single year. The vision of Eugène-Aimé Salon, the House makes Chardonnay-only blends from its Salon Garden, before ageing bottles for a minimum of ten years to develop complexity and finesse.