Billecart-Salmon Le Clos Saint Hilaire 2006 (3x75cl)
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Named after the patron saint of Grand Cru Village Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, a single hectare of Pinot Noir constitutes the hallowed vineyard of Clos Saint-Hilaire. Billecart-Salmon take the greatest care to ensure the vines, soil and subsoils here are treated with the most biodynamically-friendly practices possible including use of horses to plough and the introduction of sheep as pest-control! A breath-taking Blanc de Noirs, Clos Saint-Hilaire is one of the most vinous and complex prestige cuvées in Champagne being vinified in oak casks. Individually numbered due to the highly limited production level, this is special wine in every sense of the word.
Baked raspberries, salted yellow plums, figs, walnuts, orange zest, mahogany and some toasted vanilla on the nose. Medium-to full-bodied with beautifully integrated, very fine bubbles. Dry, with exciting and unique white-pepper and sea-salt notes. Seamless. So harmonious. Salty and spicy clove notes evolving at the end. Amazing precision. Single parcel pinot noir, 100% vinified in oak barrels. No malo. 2g/l dosage. Disgorged November 2020. 6,750 bottles. Drink or hold.
Review Date: 7th April 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.
Drinking Window: 2024 - 2036
Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
Review Date: 14th July 2022
Opened up exponentially over the hour that I managed to spend glued to this glass. With more perfume than I expected and crammed with chypre and white smoke details, these exotic details are perfectly counterpointed with terrific complexity and thousands of layers of fruit and spice. Quieter and more closed than the others, but complex, calm and blushingly pretty, there is a lot of power and potential hidden in the folds of this wine, and while they are reluctant to emerge, it is possible to get a sense of their potential already. While the depth of fruit is extraordinary, I am only seeing the tip of the iceberg today. I can only imagine the difference a year makes, let alone ten, twenty or thirty! I hope I am here to taste this wine to realise its potential. Either way, this is a staggeringly serious vintage for LCSH, and it might well prove to be another flawless release given time. For now, I will keep my cards respectively close to my chest.
Drinking Window: 2028 - 2050
Reviewer Name: Matthew Jukes
Review Date: 1st December 2021
An incredibly fragrant nose shines with ripe, red-cheeked Mirabelle plum and even has an overtone of Kirsch. The palate is creamy and has a wonderful spine of freshness that only helps to underscore the generosity and roundness. The mousse is superfine, the autolysis is restrained yet profound, there is a textured mid-palate of concentrated red apple fruit with an edge of candlewax and a delicious reverberation of pepper. Exquisite.
Reviewer Name: Anne Krebiehl MW
Review Date: 8th August 2021
Harvested late September. Natural 11% alcohol. In barrel until April 2007. Disgorged November 2020. Dosage 2 g/l. To be released in 2022.
Rich nose, yeasty and so alive. The oak shows even more as the wine opens up, giving a cedar spice. Such underlying depth and richness with such a surprising mineral and acidic backbone with a verbena note, mandarin – the most citric of the lot. There is a subtler nuttiness here that is almost creamy, like a Belgian chocolate, almost oily on the finish yet with such direction.
Drinking Window: 2025 - 2045
Reviewer Name: Alistair Cooper MW
Review Date: 27th October 2021