Notes:
The 2004 Bollinger “La Grande Année” Brut Rosé was disgorged only a couple of
months prior to my tasting the wine, after spending fully nine and a half years aging sur latte in
the maison’s cellars in Aÿ. The wine is comprised of a blend of seventy-two percent pinot noir
and twenty-eight percent chardonnay and was finished off with a dosage of seven grams per liter.
Five percent of the pinot noir in the blend is still wine to give its lovely salmon color. The wine
offers up a superb and very refined bouquet of blood orange, white cherry, rye toast, chalky
minerality, lovely spice tones and a gentle topnote of citrus blossoms. On the palate the wine is
deep, full-bodied, crisp and complex, with outstanding mid-palate concentration, bright,
seamless acids, elegant mousse and exceptional focus and grip on the long, complex and very
energetic finish. This is a stellar bottle of vintage Rosé and perhaps the finest I have ever tasted
of this cuvée from Bollinger! 2015-2030+. John Gilman 95
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