Salon is a unique champagne. Everything in this exceptional wine is under the sign of one: originally, a man's champagne, Aimé Salon, from a single terroir, the Côte des Blancs, from a single cru, Mesnil-sur-Oger, from a single grape variety, Chardonnay, from a single year, that of a great vintage. ".

One of the highlights among the more recent releases, the 2010 Opus One is flat-out gorgeous. Dark cherries, plums, graphite, cassis and pencil shavings are all woven together in a fabric of notable class and elegance. The 2010 stands out for its exceptional minerality, tension and pure power. Readers will have to be patient. This is a picture perfect...

Salon honours the memory of its founder, a century on. In the 1910s, Eugène-Aimé Salon had a vision, a dream: to create a champagne for all time, from a single grape variety, chardonnay, laid bare in all its subtlety; from a single great terroir, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger; and from a single superlative year, the vintage. A stand-alone defined by its singularity;...