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Bollinger La Grande Annee 2008  - First Bottle

Reviews

97 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -
Bollinger's 2008 La Grande Ann?e is superb, wafting from the glass with aromas of crisp orchard fruit, ripe lemons, honeycomb, warm biscuits, dried white flowers and a delicate top note of walnuts and fino sherry. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, broad and vinous, with a beautifully refined mousse, superb concentration at the tightly wound core, incisive acids and a supremely elegant intermingling of Bollinger's oxidative stylistic signatures with fresh, vibrant fruit. The finish is long, precise and chalky. This is a Grande Ann?e built for the cellar?the real excitement will come with a bit more bottle age?but this is already a thrilling Champagne in the making. Finished with eight grams per liter dosage, it was disgorged by hand in July 2018. This is also the first vintage of Grande Ann?e to be bottled in Bollinger's new narrower-necked 1846 bottle, which should make for a slower evolving wine. Drink: 2022-2060.
97 Decanter -
In 2008, the remarkable maturity of the grapes combined with an amazing acidity has produced a vintage of great balance, concentration and depth. The wine was aged for nine years on its lees, then for another year following disgorgement. Bright straw in colour with pinprick bubbles, it blooms on the nose with a fresh lemon leaf aroma, a sniff of strawberry and white chocolate and a candied peanut toastiness in depth. On the palate it’s silky, broad and lingering, showing a kind of bittersweet fruit profile with grapefruit and peach kernel notes, and an amazing chalky, mineral finish. It will keep well. Wait to drink it if in magnum or bigger. 71% Pinot Noir, 29% Chardonnay. Drinking Window: 2020-2045

Technical Details

  • Blend71% Pinot Noir, 29% Chardonnay
  • CountryFrance
  • RegionChampagne
  • AppellationChampagne

Bollinger La Grande Annee 2008

Other Whites  |  France
WA97+, D97

Too late, we are SOLD OUT!
Don't blink...you might miss this one, only 5 cases! You might have heard us pontificating on the amazing quality of the 2008 vintage in Champagne a bit over the last year, and it's wines like this that prove how truly special the vintage was. It really doesn't get much better than this in the world of Champagne! I'd put this up against the worlds very best bubbles with utter confidence.

About the Producer

The story began with Athanase de Villermont, the youngest son of a noble family with a brilliant destiny. He then met Joseph Bollinger, a widely travelled German who had left his country of birth to learn about the Champagne wine trade, and Paul Renaudin, a local man who was fascinated by the world of wine. The firm of Renaudin-Bollinger & Cie was founded on 6th February 1829. Joseph took care of sales and Paul of the cellar. Athanase had founded a champagne House that was to endure through the centuries.