Salon

This is Salon, one of those few champagnes that goes completely against the grain of what everyone else does in that region. Champagne is a blended wine par excellence, across different villages, with a mix of the three grapes, and usually sold as a non-vintage wine, across the years. Salon, on the other hand, is single grape (Chardonnay), single village (Le Mesnil sur Oger) and only available as vintage wines. Salon grew famous in the 1920s and 1930s as the house champagne of the famous Paris restaurant Maxim's. Sure, it's not the only champagne that's so. The others include Bollinger Vieille Vigne Francais, and the two single vineyard wines from Krug - Clos de Mesnil and Clos d'Ambonnay. It's in fine company indeed.