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Champagne Brut La Grande Année 2004 75cl

AOC | Vallée de la Marne | Champagne | Francia
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94 Wine Spectator
Firm, with well-cut acidity and a fine texture, this is aromatic, delivering a skein of ground spice and graphite notes that mesh seamlessly with the flavors of black currant, black cherry, toasted almond, financier, honey and smoky mineral. Offers a long, mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2024. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 3,000 cases imported. –AN
93 Robert Parker
All that having been noted, it is Kaufmann and then-director Ghislain de Montgolfier who can take responsibility for the success that is Bollinger’s 2004 Brut Grande Annee, a bottling that, in marrying the restraint associated with young wines from this house with that of a relatively cool and copious but ultimately fascinating vintage, has rendered a work of subtle intrigue and refinement that will merit a dozen or more years’ attention. Quite pale in color and with unexpectedly green-gold shimmering, this two-thirds Pinot Noir cuvee displays alluringly silken texture and refinement of mousse as well as delicacy. Fresh white peach, yellow tomato, lime, and rhubarb offer subtly tart, brightly juicy succulence, and a mingling of chalk and sweet-saline oyster liquor serves for saliva-inducement in a long finish tinged with lightly toasted grains and nuts. It will be good to return next year to Bollinger, one of the houses I visited on my first day in Champagne 30 years ago and a longtime favorite; but for 2014, I was forced by press of time and complications of scheduling to limit myself to tasting a single new release. Early this year, dozen-year veteran Bollinger chef de cave Mathieu Kauffmann unexpectedly announced his resignation to join Reichsrat von Buhl (part of recently deceased Achim Niederberger’s plan for renewing that venerable Pfalz estate, inter alia through increased attention to its already impressive sparkling wine program), and in June Bollinger’s director Jerome Philipon announced that Kaufmann’s former right-hand, Gilles Descotes, would succeed him.
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Bollinger
Tra i più grandi nomi della Champagne, la Maison Bollinger ha registrato una crescita costante sin dal 1829. Fondata da Jacques Bollinger e Paul Renaudin, l'azienda ha visto la sua massima espansione nella seconda metà degli anni Novanta, sotto la guida di Madame Lily Bollinger. Oggi questa tenuta leggendaria è gestita dal suo pronipote, Ghislain de Montgolfier. La sua reputazione internazionale è stata trainata dall'impegno a produrre Champagne a prevalenza Pinot Nero sofisticati, ma potenti e complessi. La Special Cuvée non millesimata è un prodotto di classe, uno spumante ricco e corposo. Anche gli eccezionali Grande Année e Grande Année Rosé sono Champagne di riferimento di alto livello. Il notevole Champagne R.D. (récemment dégorgé, ovvero di sboccatura recente) gode di un affinamento sui lieviti che arriva fino a dieci anni. Il gusto cremoso, persino tostato fa di questo vino dall'equilibrio eccezionale un segno distintivo di Bollinger.