NV Special Cuvée, Bollinger
(6x75cl)
| Product Code: | 716061NV |
| Description: | NV Special Cuvée, Bollinger |
| Case Size: | 6x75cl |
| Producer: | Bollinger |
| Region: | Champagne |
| Country: | France |
| Alc. By Vol.: | 12 |
Other Vintages
| NV Special Cuvée, Bollinger |
Grape Varieties
| 60% | Pinot Noir |
| 25% | Chardonnay |
| 15% | Pinot Meunier |
Food Matching Note:
The richness and depth of this champagne make it excellent with fuller seafood dishes like lobster, but it is also an excellent aperitif
Tasting Note:
One of the finest non vintage Champagnes available, always rich, toasty and full bodied, with wonderful concentration and depth of flavour. Many Champagne houses aspire to this style but few succeed as well as Bollinger.
Grape:
This is white Champagne but Pinot Noir dominates the blend.
Location:
From selected growers in the Champagne region to the East of Paris.
Flavour:
One of the fullest non vintage Champagne blends - toasty and delicious.
USP:
As drunk on Absolutely Fabulous, darling.
Combined:
One of the fullest-bodied NV champagnes with beautiful toasty complexity thanks to the high proportion of Pinot Noir. Absolutely Fabulous.
Vinification Note:
Special Cuvée is the quintessential expression of the Bollinger style. On average, 80% of the grapes come from Premiers and Grands Crus in Champagne. To ensure the consistency and continuity of the style, Bollinger adds to the blend a maximum of 10% of Reserve wines, which have been kept in magnum. The blend consists on average of 60% pinot noir, 25% Chardonnay and 15% pinot meunier, harvested from 30 different villages in Champagne. Special Cuvée matures for a minimum of three years in Bollinger's cellars prior to release. The House of Bollinger owns 144 hectares in the finest crus in the heart of the Champagne region. These vineyards provide 70 percent of the House's grape needs and accord its wines consistency, along with a very specific character.
Detailed Vinification Note:
Special Cuvée is the quintessential expression of the Bollinger style. On average, 80% of the grapes come from Premiers and Grands Crus in Champagne. To ensure the consistency and continuity of the style, Bollinger adds to the blend a maximum of 10% of Reserve wines, which have been kept in magnum. The blend consists on average of 60% pinot noir, 25% Chardonnay and 15% pinot meunier, harvested from 30 different villages in Champagne. Special Cuvée matures for a minimum of three years in Bollinger's cellars prior to release. The House of Bollinger owns 144 hectares in the finest crus in the heart of the Champagne region. These vineyards provide 70 percent of the House's grape needs and accord its wines consistency, along with a very specific character. Champagne is a blended wine, blended not only from red and white grapes but also from different vineyard areas. It is this blending that gives the wines their balance, their richness, and their aptitude for ageing. The pinot noir grape the foundation of the Bollinger style - is cultivated in Aÿ, Bouzy, Louvois, Tauxieres and Verzenay; the Chardonnay is grown in Bisseuil, Cuis, Mancy, Grauves and Cramant; and the pinot meunier in Champvoisy. Bollinger's assemblages, that is, blends, are produced with grapes from an average of 25 to 30 crus from the Department of the Marne, of which a minimum of 24 are classed growths, 10 grands and 14 premiers crus. But not content to rest simply on its demands for the finest grapes, the House of Bollinger uses only the cuvee - that is, the first pressing of each vintage - and sells off the tailles, the second pressing. The House of Bollinger has remained fully committed to preserving and, indeed, expanding its viticultural domaine to guarantee, from one year to the next, the consistency of the Bollinger style it's vinosity, complexity and depth.