Champagne - Bollinger

We often hear that the House of Bollinger incarnates a style. Most certainly, Bollinger proposes to great wine-lovers something different and unique in Champagne.

This specific style is bound to a family history that, for generations, chose to stay close to its land while ensuring it developed its international reputation.

“Bollinger, a class aside in the Champagne business” could be a simple advertising slogan. However, as soon as we consider the details of the differences cultivated by the House, it asserts itself as a reality. Indeed, when we examine the range of wines, this assertion is absolutely proven.

A fruit of the tricks of the earth and climate, making Champagne will always remain a difficult art; the art of blending grape varieties, crus or vintages, to get the quintessential wine. In that sense, “Special Cuvée” from Bollinger is, without doubt, the highest expression of its know-how and style.

In favourable conditions the House of Bollinger also makes, with the grapes of the year, wines which have, on top of the style of the House, the character and personality of their respective vintages. This is the case with the “Grande Année” and with the Grande Années continuity of excellence in the “R.D.”.

The House of Aÿ, not sparing of differences, also offers two other unique wines in Champagne: “the “la Côte aux Enfants” and the “Vieilles Vignes Françaises”. All these wines have a history which merits being told.

 

 Special Cuvée

 Bin No

 MENT/001

 Size

 6 x 75cl

 Price

 £201.19

Special Cuvée is the purest expression of Champagne Bollinger's style. All the House's know-how is required in order to create, year after year, a blend that is consistent both in style and quality. It has a depth and balance, with rich and toasty aromas.

The Bollinger style is very round and mature with a luxurious finish.

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 Non Vintage Rosé

 Bin No

 MENT/019

 Size

 6 x 75cl

 Price

 £239.95

Preceded by Madame Bollinger’s La Grande Année Rosé, this non-vintage blend is the next addition to the Bollinger family.

Crafted to reveal its own unique personality while steadfastly representing the family, the rich complexity with balanced acidity should come as no surprise to devotees.

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 La Grande Année 2000

 Bin No

 MENT/005

 Size

 6 x 75cl

 Price

 £352.27

La Grande Année is Bollinger’s Prestige Cuvée and is only produced when exceptional vintages occur. The grapes come exclusively from Grand and Premiers Crus. For this 2000 vintage, wine from 17 villages has been included, 82% from Grand Crus and 18% from Premier Crus.

Bollinger use only the‘ cuvée’ juice in the making of La Grande Année. The first fermentation is always carried out 100% in old oak barrels, which is quite exceptional in champagne.

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 La Grande Année Rosé 2002

 Bin No

 MENT/008

 Size

 6 x 75cl

 Price

 £453.21

As its name suggests, La Grande Année Rosé is a variant of La Grande Année. The blend is created by combining La Grande Année with red wine from “La Côte aux Enfants,” a vineyard less than 1.5 acres in size, in the heart of Champagne’s Aÿ terroir.

La Grande Année Rosé is named after the plot of land it comes from and is made in a true Burgundian style. This wine is not produced every year, as perfect maturity is required at the date of harvest. Thus, La Grande Année Rosé remains an exception; it is a beautifully structured and full-bodied wine, with a deep colour and intense aroma.

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 R.D. 1996

 Bin No

 MENT/009

 Size

 6 x 75cl

 Price

 POR

RD (meaning ‘recently disgorged’) is exclusively produced with wines from the cuvée juice. The first fermentation of RD is always 100% carried out in oak barrels, which has become quite unique in champagne.

The crus are fermented in small oak barrels (205, 225 and 410 litres), which enables a rigourous selection. Bollinger only uses old barrels (five years and more), in order to generate neither an oaky taste nor tannins. This method reinforces the aromatic complexity and the ageing potential of the wines .

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 Vieilles Vignes Francaises Blanc de Noirs 2000

 Bin No

 MENT/012

 Size

 1 x 75cl

 Price

 £345.00

Absolutely unique in Champagne, Bollinger “Vieilles Vignes Françaises” is the living relic of what the Champagne of yesteryear might have been like, before the French vineyards were devastated by phylloxera.

Mysteriously, in Aÿ and Bouzy, a few plots of "franches de pied", i.e., un-grafted and free from phylloxera, resisted the aphid from America. The Bollinger family decided to save them.

They are grown "en foule" (loose) and worked manually, with tools from the past and according to the old Champagne ways. This method - high in cost and limited in yield - allows the grape to reach great maturity, whilst preserving a very low Ph (high acidity), characteristic of a great Champagne.

Composed solely of Pinot Noir, always vintage and particularly full-bodied, round and complete, Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaises is the conservatory of the Bollinger style, such as it might have been appreciated in the previous century

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