Best Champardennais Wine Variety Producers
Champagne Bollinger is a renowned French champagne house established in 1829, located in the Aÿ region of Champagne. Known for its rich, full-bodied style, Bollinger specializes in producing high-quality, complex champagnes primarily using Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes.
The house is famous for its commitment to traditional winemaking methods, including fermentation in oak barrels and extended aging, which give its champagnes distinctive depth, elegance, and complexity. Bollinger is highly regarded for its prestigious cuvées, such as the Grande Année and La Grande Année Rosé, and is a favorite among champagne connoisseurs worldwide.
AWARDS
Falstaff - 100
Falstaff - 99
BEST Champagne Bollinger Wines
Best Champardennais Wine Varieties
The 2008 La Grande Année is another brilliant 2008 that delivers the goods. Straight-up awesome notes of stone fruits, white flowers, honeysuckle, and an incredible, liquid rock-like minerality all emerge from the glass, and it develops more nuance, spice, toasted bread, and an almost Alsatian Riesling-like petrol character over the course of the evening.
It’s a full-bodied, rich, powerful Champagne, yet like the top 2008s, it has brilliant precision, purity, and focus.
AWARDS
Falstaff - 100
The 2013 Vieilles Vignes Françaises is a powerhouse. Deep in colour the 2013 is rich and ample in feel. Apricot spice orange jam cedar dried herbs ginger honey and leather all meld together in a VVF that is decidedly opulent and vinous despite the cool season and harvest that took place on September 27 late by present-day standards.
Sadly production has decreased steadily since 2008. Accumulated drought has been a challenge.
AWARDS
Falstaff - 99
AWARDS
Falstaff - 99
AWARDS
Falstaff - 99
PN, made entirely from Pinot Noir to underscore the very essence and DNA of the House style, is the first new cuvée added to Bollinger’s permanent range since rosé in 2008. Each release of PN, developed as a series to bring Bollinger’s unique vision of Pinot Noir to light, will showcase a different cru from the base year that highlights its distinctive terroir and taste.
The first edition of the series, PN VZ15, explores the interpretation of Pinot Noir from Verzenay 2015 and features reserve wines dating back to 2009.
AWARDS
Falstaff - 99
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