2007 Bollinger Grande Annee
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Having tasted it in the office, we can confirm this fully lives up to Bollinger’s billing as being their version of the vintage. Where others have produced lighter styles this remains big, serious and powerful while still embracing a delicate approachability. This makes it beautiful to drink now yet has impressive structure that suggests a stellar future ahead. A blend of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, we tasted this against the most recent Grande Annee releases (2005 and 2002) and are pleased to say that this 2007 is up there with the ‘02, while already blowing the ‘05 away. Produced from 91% Grand Cru grapes, the pedigree really shines through in a cuvee that, with every release, shows off the epitome of the Pinot-dominated Bollinger style – as Juhlin notes “a classically and perfectly balanced Bollinger”.
Hot heavily buttered toast, combined with cream, roasted nuts, sweet spices, refreshing citrus, Granny Smith and crunchy stone fruit: apricots and peaches. Despite its nine years on the lees, 2007 Bollinger La Grande Année remains wonderfully youthful with a whip of acidity that suggests huge longevity. Powerful and promising, an exceptional wine and one of the irrefutable Champagnes of the vintage. Oct 2016
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Richard Juhlin
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
More reviews and scores
From a bottle disgorged in March 2017, Bollinger's 2007 La Grande Année is showing brilliantly, offering up a superb bouquet of lemon oil, confit citrus, almond paste, iodine, walnut oil and freshly baked bread. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, broad-shouldered and powerful in this frequently rather slender vintage, with excellent concentration, a deep and tightly wound core and a precise, chalky finish.
Opened three weeks earlier and then re-stoppered. Disgorged June 2016. Tasted blind. Quite complex nose and really dry and fully integrated. Hint of walnuts. Evolved yet with good fruit. This could be the RD… Complicated – requires lots of intellectual concentration. Very long. (JR)
70% Pinot Noir, 30% Chardonnay. Mid gold, with a fine bead. Buttered brioche, mellow lees, with stone fruit and bruised apple. Great palate finesse with very subtle mousse, nice balance, and old-cream and brioche complexity. Long, with a vinous finish. Ready now and likely to drink relatively early. (TJ)
About the producer
Bollinger is one of the most renowned and coveted Champagne Houses in the world, famous for its Pinot-Noir-dominant wines, in particular La Grande Année and the rare Vieilles Vignes Françaises (from pre-phylloxera vines).