Special Pricing on Luxury Champagne from Billecart-Salmon
One of Champagne’s most recognizable premium producers, Billecart-Salmon, has just made a shift in their local distribution.
What does this mean for you? It means we were able to pick up a small quantity of luxury 2012 vintage Champagne at special move-it-out prices. Today, in Vin Chicago tradition, we pass the savings on to you!
“Quite simply, the Champagnes here have never been better.”
- Antonio Galloni, April 2024
Billecart-Salmon has been on a roll lately, and these premium bottlings of Brut and Brut Rosé Champagne have earned scores as high as 99 points. At other stores, they sell as high as $300. We bring them to you today for way less!
Read on for the bombastic accolades from Antonio Galloni, Jeb Dunnuck, James Suckling and Wine Advocate, then click fast on the Big Green Button to secure your supply!
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2012 Billecart-Salmon
"Louis Salmon" Blanc de Blancs Brut
Champagne, France
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“The 2012 Brut Blancs de Blancs Louis Salmon is a gorgeous Champagne.”
- Antonio Galloni, March 2024
“Incredible aromas of brioche, bread dough and pie crust with superb, electrifying fruit, from peaches to fresh apples. It’s driven, mouthwatering and with fantastic structure, yet it’s so balanced and creamy. Very fine and silky bubbles. It’s better and better as it warms slightly in the glass. 3.9g/L dosage. Drink or hold.”
- 99 Points, James Suckling (7/26/2024)
"A 100% Chardonnay, sourced from vines planted in the communes of Mesnil-sur-Oger, Chouilly, Cramant, and Oiry, the 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs Cuvée Louis Salmon evokes aromas of lemon oil, pastry, baked bread, walnuts and chalk. Medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, it's vinous, almost creamy, with a layered, delicate structure that leads to a delicately citrusy, long and delicate finish. This Champagne is built to age, thanks to the power of the 2012 vintage and the house's signature tension. Disgorged in the second quarter of 2023 with 3.9 grams per liter dosage, it was matured 75% in stainless steel and 25% in barrels."
- 96 Points, Wine Advocate (10/24/2024)
“The 2012 Brut Blancs de Blancs Louis Salmon is a large-scale, ample wine. A rich, heady Champagne, the 2012 has started to open nicely. It is far more expressive today than it was a year ago. Even so, this remains a very young Champagne, one that needs time to shed some of its considerable baby fat. Baked apple tart, dried flowers, mint and dried citrus peel are some of the many nuances that emerge over time. Tropical notes wrap around the substantial finish. Dosage is 3.9 grams per liter. Disgorged: January 2023. Drinking Window 2026 - 2042.”
- 97 Points, Vinous - Antonio Galloni (4/2025)
"The 2012 Champagne Louis Salmon Blanc De Blancs is entirely from Côte de Blancs Grand Cru villages and saw 25% oak vinification, with most of the malo blocked to retain freshness. Initially, it opens to citrus-driven aromas of lime, but as it opens in the glass, it deepens to reveal notes of white peach, fresh bread, and a touch of toasted spice, with its portion of oak just highlighting the edges of the wine. The palate offers intensity without austerity, with a good, profound, layered feel, and it has a pillowy and elegant mousse, a coating texture of citrus oil, and a long finish. It’s already hard to resist but will improve with time. It’s a wonderful wine for Billecart-Salmon in this vintage. Bravo. Drink 2026-2046. It saw 3.9 grams per liter dosage and 4.4 grams in the final wine”
- 96 Points, Jeb Dunnuck (12/20/2024)
Looking online we found 231 listings with a median of $230. Our price on this extraordinary Champagne blows away every single one of them!
Median Online Retail: $230
Vin Chicago Price: 169.99
2012 Billecart-Salmon
"Elisabeth Salmon" Brut Rosé
Champagne, France
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"The 2012 Brut Rosé Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon is a very sexy Champagne."
- Antonio Galloni, April 2025
"This has a lovely copper color with aromas of cloves, spiced apples, raspberries, gingerbread and pastries. Delicious yeasty and spicy undertones. Excellent density and focus, with fine and firm bubbles, yet it’s light on its feet and so fresh. Long, chalky and salty at the end. Chardonnay and pinot noir. 3.8g/L dosage. Drink or hold.”
- 97 Points, James Suckling (11/21/2023)
"A blend of 45% Pinot Noir and 55% Chardonnay, the 2012 Brut Rosé Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon is a real success, wafting from the glass with aromas of red berries, rose, peony, orange blood and dried flowers. Medium to full-bodied, vinous and broad, it's dense and deep with a multidimensional core of fruit, racy acids and a textural structure, concluding with a long, delicate, mouthwatering finish. This is one of the finest rosé I've tasted at this address. Kudos! Drink Date: 2024 - 2054.”
- 97+ Points, Wine Advocate (10/24/2024)
"The 2012 Brut Rosé Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon is a very sexy Champagne, but it is also quite reserved, especially within the context of the year. Crushed rose petal, kirsch, white pepper, slate and mint are all beautifully delineated in a sculpted, taut Rosé. Its finest drinking belongs to the future. Dosage is 3.8 grams per liter. Disgorged: January 2023. Drinking Window 2026 - 2037.”
- 96 Points, Vinous - Antonio Galloni (4/2025)
"The blend of the 2012 Champagne Elisabeth Salmon is includes 55% Chardonnay along with 10% red wine, the majority of which was raised in stainless steel, with a 3% splash raised in oak. It pours a deeper salmon orange tinge and is a more assertive wine in the glass, with notes of spice, smoky wet stones, peach, almond, and fruitcake. Medium to full-bodied and assertive, it holds its mousse together more clearly and has more transparency, with a pomegranate texture, and is long on the palate. This structured wine will benefit from another year or two in bottle before drinking over the following 15 or more years. Disgorged January 2023, 3.8 dosage; total in the final wine is 4 grams per liter. Maturity 2026 - 2041.”
- 96+ Points, Jeb Dunnuck (12/20/2024)
Median online retail for this "very sexy" Rosé Champagne is $240. Today's price is a full 25% less. Also available are a handful of 1.5 liter magnums!
Median Online Retail: $240
Vin Chicago Price: 179.99
