Champagne Billecart - Salmon

Discover Billecart-Salmon champagne

Founded in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ at the beginning of the XIXᵉ century, the Champagne house of Billecart-Salmon has become a benchmark of elegance and finesse in Champagne. Remaining a family business since its inception, today it is renowned for the precision of its blends and the purity of its style. Its emblematic cuvées, such as Brut Réserve and the Brut Rosé and the grand cuvées millésimées perfectly illustrate the House's expertise. Billecart-Salmon champagnes express themselves with a constant balance of freshness, complexity and delicacy.

The House of Billecart-Salmon

For over 200 years, the Billecart family has watched over this historic house based in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, in the heart of the Marne Valley. Seven generations have succeeded one another to perpetuate the original spirit: combining tradition and innovation to produce champagnes of the utmost precision. Even today, low-temperature fermentations and prolonged ageing on lees are the hallmarks of a remarkably pure style. Independent, Billecart-Salmon remains true to the vision of its founders: "patience as a requirement" and "the pleasure of authenticity".

Terroir and style of Billecart-Salmon champagne

The house's vineyards extend over almost 100 hectares in the best Champagne crus: Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs and Vallée de la Marne. Rigorously selected supplies complete this mosaic of noble origins, giving birth to a style that is instantly recognizable: fine bubbles and airy minerality. Delicate aromas of white flowers, citrus and white-fleshed fruit. Exemplary purity and balance on the palate, where freshness and texture blend harmoniously. The secret? Slow fermentation in vats or barrels, measured dosage, and long cellar ageing to reveal the full nobility of the grape varieties.

Billecart-Salmon cuvées

• Brut Réserve: The house icon. A balanced blend of Champagne's three grape varieties, this Brut stands out for its finesse and aromatic precision. Its delicate bubbles and harmonious palate make it the perfect aperitif champagne.
• Brut Rosé A true Billecart-Salmon signature, it seduces with its salmon color and notes of strawberry, raspberry and citrus fruit. Elegant and light, it has become the benchmark for Champagne rosés.
• Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru: 100% Chardonnay made exclusively from the great terroirs of the Côte des Blancs. A champagne of great purity, both chalky and luminous.
• Cuvée Nicolas François: Created in 1964 as a tribute to its founder, this vintage cuvée expresses superb depth and complexity. Partially aged in barrels, it combines energy, vinosity and long maturity.
• Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon Rosé Vintage and rare, this cuvée reveals an exceptional aromatic richness of candied red fruit, rose and sweet spices. One of the most refined expressions of blended rosé.
• Le Clos Saint-Hilaire: The jewel of the house. From a single-hectare plot planted in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, it is vinified in barrels and aged for a long time on lees. A collector's champagne, it is only produced in very small quantities.

Did you know?

Billecart-Salmon pioneered the use of low-temperature fermentation in Champagne, a technique that preserves the freshness and aromatic brilliance of the wines.