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2018 Bollinger La Grande Année - 6x75cl
19B8BOLL6PK _ 2018 - Bollinger La Grande Année - 6x75cl
  • Colour Champagne_Sparkling
  • Producer Bollinger
  • Region Champagne
  • Grape Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
  • Drinking 2026 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Later

2018 - Bollinger La Grande Année - 6x75cl

  • Colour Champagne Sparkling
  • Producer Bollinger
  • Region Champagne
  • Grape Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
  • Drinking 2026 - 2045
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available Later
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Case price: £584.66 Duty Paid inc VAT
Equivalent Bottle Price: £97.44 Duty Paid inc VAT
Case price: £470.00 In Bond
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, March 2026

    Gently expressive nose, touches of lemon curd and vanilla framing orchard fruit and white blossom. Far more delicate on the palate than you’d expect from the expressive nature of the fruit, with a lovely hint of salinity coming to the fore. Sensation of crushed chalk, with a lovely drive. Incredibly graceful, expressive of both the vintage and the house style, but still with real verve and precision. Incredibly sophisticated and so classy, with a wonderful lacey intricacy, this is wonderful.

  • Antonio Galloni, January 2026, Score: 96

    Bollinger’s 2018 La Grande Année is quite pretty and delicate. Floral and citrus notes are nicely lifted in a Grande Année that offers notable sensuality and grace. Hints of orchard fruit, chamomile, mint and chalk build through the mid-palate and into the taut, chiseled finish. There’s plenty of energy and focus. More importantly, this is a fine effort in a year marked by high yields in Champagne. I would give this a few years in the cellar. The 2018 is 66% Pinot Noir and 34% Chardonnay from 19 villages, 73% Grand Cru and 37% Premier Cru. The core villages are Aÿ, Verzenay and Mareuil for Pinot Noir and Avize, Chouilly and Cuis for the Chardonnay. Dosage is 7 grams per liter. Disgorged: March 2025. Drink: 2030-2048.

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, March 2026

    Gently expressive nose, touches of lemon curd and vanilla framing orchard fruit and white blossom. Far more delicate on the palate than you’d expect from the expressive nature of the fruit, with a lovely hint of salinity coming to the fore. Sensation of crushed chalk, with a lovely drive. Incredibly graceful, expressive of both the vintage and the house style, but still with real verve and precision. Incredibly sophisticated and so classy, with a wonderful lacey intricacy, this is wonderful.

Producer

Bollinger

Champagne Bollinger was founded in 1829 by Jacques Joseph Bollinger and his colleague at the time Paul Ranaudin. Together they formed Renaudin Bollinger and it was over 100 years or so later that the house dropped the Renaudin name. The most famous Bollinger was Lily Bollinger who ran the house from 1941 until 1977. She succesfully expanded the vineyard area as well as being the origin of one of the most famous Champagne qu...Read more

Champagne Bollinger was founded in 1829 by Jacques Joseph Bollinger and his colleague at the time Paul Ranaudin. Together they formed Renaudin Bollinger and it was over 100 years or so later that the house dropped the Renaudin name. The most famous Bollinger was Lily Bollinger who ran the house from 1941 until 1977. She succesfully expanded the vineyard area as well as being the origin of one of the most famous Champagne quotes of all time: "I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone.When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and I drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it, unless I'm thirsty." Bollinger is still 100% family owned today. 70% of its grape supply comes from its own vineyards and on average 80% of the grapes come from Premiers and Grands Crus in Champagne. To ensure the consistency and continuity of the style, Bollinger adds to the blend a maximum of 10% of Reserve wines to ensure that their commitment to excellence is maintained. The blend consists on average of 60% pinot noir, 25% chardonnay and 15% pinot meunier, harvested from 30 different villages in Champagne. 80% of the harvest is barrel-fermented with the wines being kept on their yeast lees for an extended period of time.Read less

Region

Champagne

Champagne, the world's greatest sparkling wine, needs little introduction - with imitations produced in virtually every country capable of growing grapes, including such unlikely candidates as India and China. The Champagne region, to the north of Paris, has the most northerly vineyards in France, with vines grown on slopes with a southerly exposure to maximise sunlight. The soil is chalky, providing an excellent balance of drainage and water retention. The key to the wine is in the cellar - the bubbles result from a second fermentation in the bottle and the rich toasty flavours in great Champagne come from extended bottle ageing on the yeasty lees. Until the eighteenth century, the wines produced in the Champagne area were light acidic white wines, with no hint of sparkle. However glass and closure technology developed at that time and it was not long before Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautvilliers, started experimenting with blends and produced the first recognisable champagne. In a world accustomed to still wines, the advent of champagne was almost a flop. It was saved when it became fashionable at the French court as a result of Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour commenting "Champagne is the only wine that lets a woman remain beautiful after she has drunk it." And the rest is history, with famous (or infamous) champagne lovers including Casanova, Dumas, Wagner, Winston Churchill, James Bond and Coco Chanel.

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