The score for 2004 Salon Cuvee S Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs Champagne is 96 from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The 2004 Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Brut is another rather structured, tensile wine from a generally rather open vintage. Wafting from the glass are scents of citrus rind, crisp green apple, preserved citrus, fresh bread and smoke. Medium to full-bodied, tangy and chiseled, with fine depth at the core and a long, chalky finish, it's complemented by a pillowy pinpoint mousse. Unlike many wines from 2004, this Salon (tasted from a bottle disgorged in January 2019) still has potential to improve with further bottle age. Critical consensus tends to make me a little uneasy, so I confess that the universal acclaim that the 2008 Salon has received inclined me to be just a little skeptical. Could it really be quite that good? Such doubts, however, were entirely dispelled by tasting one of the 8,000 magnums of this wine alongside a number of other Salon vintages with director Didier Depond. A striking wine, the 2008 entirely lives up to its already elevated reputation, and it's clearly the best Salon produced since Laurent-Perrier acquired this iconic house in 1989—and indeed for some time before that too. Of course, it is priced accordingly, but there's no question this is one of the great wines of the vintage.