Bollinger Special Cuvée

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Bollinger Special Cuvée

The emblematic non-vintage champagne, this Brut offers ripe fruit and spicy aromas to the nose. On the palate, its fine bubbles are accompanied by a subtle combination of structure, length and sharpness. 

Notes :
  • Bettane + Desseauve 16/20
  • Gault & Millau 16/20
  • Gilbert & Gaillard 92/100
  • Hachette 2 * + Favorite
  • La Revue du Vin de France 16,5/ 20
  • RVF December 2015

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Wine characteristics

  • Vintage : Bollinger Spécial Cuvée
  • Year : NM
  • Appellation : Champagne
  • Colour : White
  • Grape types : 60 % Pinot Noir, 25 % Chardonnay, 15 % Meunier
  • Soil : chalk
  • Harvest : manual
  • Type of viticulture : integrated
  • Contenance : 75cl

Tasting - Cellaring

  • Appearance : golden
  • Nose : roast apple, peach
  • Mouth : structured, long and lively
  • Serving temperature : 10 - 12 °C
  • Cellaring : 3 to 5 years
  • Drink from : 2015
  • Maturation : Minimum 3 years

Food-matching

  • Food-matching : sushi, shellfish, dry-cured ham

Experts reviews :

  • Bettane + Desseauve

    Rated wine : 16/20

  • Gault & Millau

    Rated wine : 16/20

  • Gilbert & Gaillard

    Rated wine : 92/100

  • Hachette

    Rated wine : 2 * + Favorite

  • La Revue du Vin de France

    Rated wine : 16,5/ 20

  • RVF December 2015

    Les Meilleurs Bruts des Grandes Maisons

Domain :

The two houses Deutz and Bollinger, with most of their vineyards located in Premiers Crus and Grands Crus, favour the Pinot Noir for its characteristic vinosity. They complement it with Chardonnay for its finesse. The result: powerful and refined champagnes for the best tables all over the world.

Appellation :

 

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The most northerly wine-growing region in France. This makes it ideal for developing sparkling wines that require a grape that is not too ripe so that the freshness of the bubbles is preserved.

The climate in Champagne is affected by two influences: oceanic and continental, which explains why the vintages lack evenness and regularity, depending on whether one or the other is in the ascendancy.

Main regions: Montagne de Reims, Côte des Blancs, Vallée de la Marne and Aube, which is detached, some 75 km to the South.

Most of the wines are sparkling, although there are also some still wines, such as Coteaux Champenois and the rare Les Riceys rosés. On average, total production is 320 million bottles.

The subsoil is mainly limestone, which has allowed hundreds of kilometres of galleries to be burrowed out, which are particularly well-suited to storing wine.

1 white grape (chardonnay) and 2 black grapes (pinot noir and pinot meunier) are used in the wines, some of which are blends, others made from a single grape type, usually chardonnay.

They are given a specific vintage when the production quality justifies it, or else the wines are made from 2 or 3 different years, which in turn add their own characteristics.

Champagne is marketed jointly by the major production houses (80% of exports) and individuals producers.

Best recent vintages: 2012 and 2008.

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