Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Brut Magnum 2008 CBO1

Pre-arrival 1.5 weeks.

Salon is Champagne's first, finest and rarest Blanc de Blancs. It is the legacy of one man who devoted his life to creating the perfect pure Chardonnay champagne. Produced from grapes grown in the deep chalk soils of Le Mesnil, one of Champagne's few remaining Grand Cru villages, the apparent simplicity of this formula masks the challenges involved in producing a wine of Salon's complexity. Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs 2006 is made on average only three times per decade and is only the fortieth Salon vintage in history. Just 53,000 bottles of Salon were produced in 2006. The 2007 vintage is the 41^(st) Salon to be released from this tiny Champagne house in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. A Blanc de Blancs in its purest form, this wine bears all the hallmarks of a classic Salon: the unmistakable bone structure; the delicate yet decadent fragrance; and the elegance that belies the power beneath. The 2008 vintage is only available in magnum format in this case.