Bollinger Brut Special Cuvée

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BN#120128

Bollinger is one of the few houses in Champagne to remain independent. The cuvee is blended primarily from grapes grown on bollinger estates many of which have vineyards with grand cru and premier cru designations. Year-to-year, bollinger produces a wine that is crisp and focused with citrus and mineral notes and some hints of yeast. The wine has excellent lenght in the finish with hazelnuts coming in at the end. Rated 90 points by The Wine Spectator

Wine Enthusiast

The Bollinger style is always rich, food friendly and impressive. This wine is all of those things, with power and intensity of flavor along with ripe fruit, a layer of toastiness and a dry aftertaste. This is a style of wine that can take even more bottle aging.

Score: 94. —Roger Voss, December 01, 2005.

Burghound

Here the expressive nose is extremely yeasty and deeply pitched with delicious, vibrant, and crisp middle weight flavors that are precise and clean on the long finish. This is a beautiful and relatively robust effort and I like the way everything is delivered with grace and authority with a firm but not aggressive backbone of acidity. This should be high on the list for those who enjoy cellaring NV examples as it will easily support 10 to 15 years of aging but can also be enjoyed now. A very solid effort at this level.

Score: 91. —Allen Meadows,

International Wine Cellar

Deep aromas of ginger, toffee, butter and nutskin; reminded me of maturing white Burgundy. Full-bodied and intense, with flavors of toasted bread, spiced apple, baked pear and nutskin. Sappy, deep and strong in extract; this has impressive palate presence. Finishes with excellent subtle persistence. A particularly harmonious bottle of Bollenger, and a perfect dinner-table Champagne. 91 pts. $45. 11/02.

Score: 91. —Stephen Tanzer, November 2002.

Wine Spectator

There's a slight grain to the texture and this bubbly is all the better for it, lending a pleasing assertiveness to the peach, candied citrus, spice and graphite notes. It's all backed by a firm acidity and a chalky finish.

Score: 91. —Bruce Sanderson, December 15, 2008.