Billecart-Salmon Le Clos St Hilaire 2006: Prestige in a Flute
Champagne 12.5% ABV ABV Billecart-Salmon
24 February 2026
Best champagne I've ever had
The wine shop guy recommended this when I said I wanted something properly special for my wife's 50th. It's from a single vineyard apparently and you can really taste why it's different — there's a chalky mineral quality underneath all the richness that keeps you coming back for more. She loved it too so money well spent as far as I'm concerned.
12 February 2026
Incredible but hard to justify the price
Had a glass of this at a restaurant and it's genuinely beautiful champagne — lovely strawberry notes and a dry finish that goes on forever. But £450 a bottle? I've had champagnes at half that price that got me almost as excited. If someone else is buying though, say yes immediately.
5 January 2026
Worth every penny for a special night
Bought this for our 20th anniversary and wow. The bubbles are impossibly fine and creamy, and there's this amazing brioche and hazelnut thing going on that just keeps going. At £450 it's obviously not an everyday bottle but for a once-in-a-lifetime occasion it absolutely delivered.
8 November 2025
The good stuff
My brother-in-law brought this to Christmas dinner and it was a real showstopper. Really rich with baked apple flavours but still bone dry at the end, which I loved. You can tell it's 100% Pinot Noir — it's got this weight to it that most champagne doesn't have. We all just sat there quietly sipping it, nobody wanted to waste a drop.