Billecart-Salmon Brut Réserve

Brut Réserve is the volume cuvée from the family-owned Mareuil-sur-Aÿ house. Roughly equal parts Meunier, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, drawn from around forty villages across the Marne, with a substantial reserve component.

The defining technical choice is a long, cold débourbage (settling of the must at low temperature for 48 hours), a Billecart house signature dating to the 1960s. This, combined with cool, slow fermentation and three years on the lees, produces the clean, finely textured style the house is known for — lean rather than rich, often described as a benchmark NV for finesse.