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Salon 2002 – to dose or not to dose?

Wednesday 16 July 2014
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For other recent champagne reviews, see 2004 deluxe champagnes and Recent champagne releases.

A small but well-formed tasting of five wines* from sister houses Delamotte and Salon, in the company of Didier Depond, president of both, chez London fine-wine merchant Corney & Barrow, revealed two things. The first has already been pointed out by Jancis in her introduction to the second half of 2004 deluxe champagnes: that Delamotte is good value compared with many other deluxe champagnes, 'a (relative) bargain'. The non-vintage blanc de blancs tasted from Delamottemagnum and based on the 2008 vintage was particularly impressive in its delicate complexity...
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