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2012 Champagne Bollinger, La Grande Année, Brut

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir (65%), Chardonnay (35%)
Ready - at best
Product: 20128002174
2012 Champagne Bollinger, La Grande Année, Brut

Description

This excellent vintage was entirely fermented in oak-barrel and is a wine that transcends much of what people expect in a Champagne. Now with a degree of maturity, it is the perfect addition to make any Christmas occasion a memorable one. Rich, complex & utterly delicious, it will delight from breakfast coupes, through to the turkey crown.

Gleaming gold in the glass. The nose entices with yellow fruit, ginger & hot buttered scones. The palate is softly foaming, powerful & utterly delicious. The fine mousse aids textural complexity, supporting flavours which weave between the immediate satisfaction of baked plum crumble with cream. And serious, savoury pinot musk from the thoroughbred chalk terroir, the maturity of the vintage & evolution in bottle. The finish is mineral, golden, expansive & dangerously morish. Fill you stockings now, and your cellars for future festivities.

Drink now to 2035+

Davy Zyw, Wine Buyer, Berry Bros & Rudd (September 2021)

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Pinot Noir (65%), Chardonnay (35%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Bollinger

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Champagne

Champagne

In 1668, Dom Pérignon is said to have discovered how to make sparkling wine; today his technique is used the world over, although Champagne continues to make some of the finest. France’s most northerly wine region, Champagne is now home to 15,000 growers and 290 ‘houses’. A blend of grape varieties is usually required: white Chardonnay to add fruit and elegance, and two reds – Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier – to provide body and backbone.
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Bollinger

The Champagne House of Bollinger was established in 1829 by Jacques Bollinger and Paul Renaudin. Over the years the vineyard holdings have been steadily increased with the largest expansion taking place under the stewardship of the legendary Mme Lily Bollinger. She ran the company between 1941 and 1977 and today it is managed by her great-nephew, Ghislain de Montgolfier.
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