Bollinger La Grande Année 2008 750ml
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Bollinger La Grande Année 2008

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750ml

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Category Sparkling Wine
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Brand Bollinger
Origin France, Champagne
Eye: The delicate colour and golden hues are a sign of the wine's maturity and Bollinger's wine-making methods. Nose: A wonderful aromatic depth. The wine's fruity, spicy and floral notes intertwine to reveal a highly complex nose; wild peach, plum and orange peel precede saffron and tonka bean, complemented by a fresh, mineral aspect. Palate: Dense and harmonious in the mouth. A creamy effervescence and fresh structure, with a gentle saline finish. Pairings: Cured ham. Seared scallops or scallops tartare. Grilled lobster. Chicken in a light creamy sauce.
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Bollinger's 2008 La Grande Année 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 Année 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 Année to be bottled in Bollinger's new narrower-necked 1846 bottle, which should make for a slower evolving wine.

William Kelley, March 2019

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