2010 Billecart-Salmon Rosé Brut Champagne Magnum (1.5 L) Magnum

Many Champagne houses make rosé. Only one Champagne house defines it. 

Billecart-Salmon’s Brut Rosé is adored by critics, collectors, and discerning bubbly-drinkers, and it is lauded from just about every corner of the wine world. You can order a glass or bottle at practically every top MICHELIN-starred restaurant on the globe. This is the first-ever vintage-dated straight Brut Rosé from the century-old Champagne house, and it’s a stunner—aged on the lees for an incredible 130 months!

It’s not often that we get to bear witness to the first vintage of an iconic Champagne house’s new bottling, and we have no doubt that this rosé will be a mainstay of the Billecart lineup. An incredible thirteen years after harvest, the 2010 shows aromas of wild red fruit, citrus, and freshly baked croissants, plus a powerful and seductive palate touched with chalk, limestone, and rhubarb.

The nature of 200-year-old Billecart-Salmon is summed up in the story of New York wine legend Neal Rosenthal, who first obtained the Champagne in 1979 through a mercurial importer. Billecart quickly became a sensation at his shop. When his relationship with the importer soured and it seemed like Billecart might slip away, Rosenthal flew to Mareuil-sur-Aÿ to plead with the proprietor face-to-face—that’s how essential he believed Billecart was to his survival. 

After 200 years of operation, the house is still owned and operated by the Billecart family—and still producing the exquisite bubblies that have seduced countless wine lovers throughout the years. As the world’s rosé standard-bearer, they’ve made vintage rosés before (like the Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon), but they’ve never made a straight vintage Brut Rosé until this one. No surprise that it’s world-class, out of the gate.