First Taste: Billecart-Salmon's 2012 releases

Billecart-Salmon has launched the 2012 vintage of both the Elisabeth Salmon Rosé and the Louis Salmon Blanc de Blancs.Even though 2012 has become one of Champagne’s most celebrated recent vintages, ‘the beginning of the season was horrible,’ says Billecart-Salmon’s president Mathieu Roland-Billecart, ‘frost, hail, mildew, sunburn – we had the lot.’
Yet Roland-Billecart says there was a glimmer of hope: ‘we pulled out a great vintage because,