Top champagne : Saloon

Salon – one of the smallest of the great champagne houses, which began on 1 hectare vineyard, purchased in 1911 by a charismatic figure named Eugene Aimé Salon. Having time to visit this teacher, fur trader and a lot of someone else, who made million capital, Salon decided to do a winemaker, making wine, what was not.

It is not difficult to reconstruct his motivation – being a frequenter of restaurants and a connoisseur of the finest French wines, Beauty felt in the wine for it is a niche – he can create something totally unique, wine of unsurpassed quality and extraordinary properties. The idea is to create a wine that firstly, on the basis of only one Chardonnay and, secondly, only during the best harvests. In the not very brilliant years to make wine, he did not want.


And thus, for almost a century he founded in 1921 to house up to 2006 produced only 37 millezimnyh wines. Which, of course, from the very beginning created them fame drink luxury – an extremely rare, prestigious and expensive. Already the first of its vintages have made him a name, in the 20 years of his Salon was “wine establishments” in the legendary restaurant “Maxim”, meeting point of the Paris elite.

After the death of his own salon twice to resell, and today it belongs to the group of Laurent-Perrier. The new owners are trying to maintain brand Salon, the wine is still made only from grapes of the best years for the past 30 years incarnated the wine is just one of the three harvests. Robert Parker, describing the quality of all wines Salon as “indisputable”, especially highlights your favorite vintage – the harvest of 1990.