Salon: wines and prices

About Salon

Salon is perhaps the rarest and most legendary Champagne in existence. It was created in the early twentieth century by Eugène-Aimé Salon, a Parisian furrier with roots in Champagne, who wanted a wine for himself and his friends alone: a pure Blanc de Blancs from a single village and a single year. The first vintage was 1905, and the house began selling it in the 1920s, when it soon became the house Champagne at Maxim’s in Paris. Since 1989 Salon has belonged to the Laurent-Perrier group, alongside its sister house Delamotte. The philosophy has never changed: one cru, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger in the Côte des Blancs; one grape, Chardonnay; one vintage, declared only when quality is exceptional, so that over more than a century only a few dozen vintages have been made. The grapes come from the small estate vineyard, the Jardin de Salon, and from selected parcels in the village. Without malolactic fermentation and after long ageing in the cellars, Salon is born taut and almost austere, revealing with time unrivalled complexity and depth.