The Salon 1999 Brut Le Mesnil – disgorged already in 2011 and dosed with a

pretty typical six grams of residual sugar – displays faintly fusil and quarry dust

notes as well as hickory nut, almond, walnut and toasted wheat piquancy on the

nose. Polished and subtly creamy in texture yet brightly juicy with apple and

lemon, this displays an uncanny sense of lift and refinement, perfectly complementing

the honeysuckle and heliotrope perfume that waft inner - mouth. You

could lose yourself in the ineffability of this wine’s floral diversity and in its resonantly

nut and grain low tones.Follow this for at least a decade. /RP /Nov 2013