"Baby Salon" | 2018 Delamotte Blanc de Blancs

Champagne Delamotte, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger - Côte des Blancs

Sister house to the legendary Salon, Delamotte was established in 1760 by Francois Delamotte, and is mostly known for their "Baby Salon" Blanc de Blancs.  The champagne is primarily produced from chalk soils in the Grand Cru villages of Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, Oger, Chouilly, and Cramant.

2018 Delamotte Champagne Blanc de Blancs
• 95WS, 95JS, 94JD, 94ID, 93+TWI, 93WA

"Like a prima ballerina, this elegant Champagne shows effortless precision and grace. The lacy mousse carries a layered range of creamed apple, yellow plum, pickled ginger and lemon curd flavors, aligned with more subtle hints of rich vanilla-infused pastry cream and brioche. Long and creamy, with a succulent quality to the well-cut acidity and a mineral-driven finish of smoke, chalk and oyster shell." - Alison Napjus

"Medium-bodied, the 2018 Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut is a more approachable vintage, very appealing and detailed, with more length, making it a refreshing and elegant wine. It has a refined sensibility, with notes of lemon-lime sherbet, fresh shortbread, and a hint of salty earth that comes through on the sides of the palate, as well as smoky, wet stones. True to the estate, it maintains all its classic freshness, finishing with notes of powdery chalk and fresh almond. It should have a wide window for peak enjoyment." - Audrey Frick

"The Delamotte 2018 Blanc de Blancs is showing well today, evoking a gourmand, complex bouquet of pastry, almonds, ripe orchard fruits, spices and spring flowers. Medium to full-bodied, layered and chiseled, it’s enveloping and round with a fleshy core of fruit, concluding with a tense and long finish." - Kristaps Karklins

"Pale golden yellow in color and displaying a remarkably disciplined, singular column of pinpoint bubbles, the Delamotte Blanc de Blancs 2018 is blend of six Grand Cru from Oger to Oiry from a very sunny vintage. This 2018 was released earlier than usual for the House, seeing only four years of aging on fine lees, was disgorged in late 2023 and finished with a five grams per liter dosage. Engaging aromas of Meyer lemon tart, fresh white peach, butter biscuits, chalk dust and hints of honey open onto a subtly creamy, light to medium-bodied palate with lemony orchard fruit concentration brightened by an incisive acid line and mouthwatering salinity. It finishes long and balanced with a taut mineral note." - Sarah Mayo

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