Champagne Salon

Champagne Salon is the rarest and most sought-after Champagne in the world. Produced only in exceptional vintages — on average three or four times per decade — from a single Grand Cru village in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, Salon represents the absolute pinnacle of blanc de blancs Champagne.

The estate was founded in 1911 by Eugène-Aimé Salon, a fur trader with a passion for wine who dreamed of creating a Champagne of absolute purity — a single vineyard, a single vintage, a single grape variety, and a single village. His creation, based entirely on Chardonnay from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, defied every convention of the time and created a template for what grower Champagne would become nearly a century later.

Salon is produced only in years deemed exceptional — 37 vintages in the 20th century, with the 21st century so far yielding 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, and 2013. In other years, the base wine is used for Delamotte Blanc de Blancs — Salon's sister house — rather than being declassified under the Salon label.

The wines are aged for a minimum of ten years on lees in the Salon cellars before release, giving them extraordinary depth, complexity, and potential for further ageing. Great vintages of Salon are capable of developing in bottle for 40 to 60 years — the 1964 and 1971 are still drinking magnificently today.

The key recent vintages available are: 2013 (James Suckling 99 points — "electric, laser-precise"), 2012 (a great, age-worthy vintage), and 2008 (widely considered one of the greatest Salon vintages of the modern era, 100 points from multiple critics).

At The Vintage Club Singapore, we offer access to Salon across multiple vintages, sourced directly from provenance-guaranteed cellars. Contact our sommeliers at order@thevintageclub.sg for allocation enquiries and availability.