Product Description
Varieties
60% Pinot Noir
25% Chardonnay
15% Meunier
The Vineyard
Over 85% Grands and Premiers crus.
Exclusive use of the cuvée.
The Cellar
A majority of reserve wines, part of which have been aged in magnums for 5 to 15 years.
Cellar aged for more than twice the time required by the appellation.
Gilles Descôtes is Bollinger’s Cellar Master. This profession requires the utmost accuracy from the moment the harvest is over he monitors the wines from each cru and each plot, getting the feel of their specific characteristics. He chooses the finest wines to be vinified in old oak casks, a practice which has almost disappeared in champagne production. The micro-oxygenation process delicately reveals the wines’ complexity and gives them an extraordinary capacity for aging. With patience and thoroughness the Cellar Master prepares each wine for the Tasting Committee when the moment comes to assemble the year’s blend. He also adds carefully preserved reserve wines, which provide an almost infinite palette of nuances and character. The Cellar Master must not simply be talented; he must also be highly intuitive in order to sense how wines will develop so that today’s blend will achieve perfection in the future.
Dosage: Moderate, 7 to 8 grams per liter.
