Bollinger Special Cuvée
Descripción
El Special Cuvée personifica el estilo propio de la Maison Bollinger. Elaborado a partir de los vinos de las dos últimas vendimias pero sobre todo con una proporción mayoritaria de vinos de reserva (una verdadera singularidad en Bollinger), es a la vez un gran vino y la materialización de todos los compromisos cualitativos de la Maison Bollinger. Su crianza duplica en tiempo las exigencias de su apelación, alcanzando un abanico de elegantes matices.
Ficha técnica
Maridaje
Blini con salmón ahumado y crema agria
El toque cítrico y la burbuja fina de este champagne complementa de manera excepcional la acidez de la crema agria y el sabor untuoso del salmon ahumado.
Cata
Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
Bollinger’s NV Special Cuvée knocks it out of the park. Made from 60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay and the rest Pinot Meunier, with 30% of the blend brought up in barrels, it boasts a rich, deep, medium to full-bodied style as well as terrific notes of lemon curd, crème brûlée, caramelized stone fruits, and hints of toasty nuttiness that develop with time in the glass. It’s a big, rich Champagne that stays balanced and pure. Beautiful stuff.
As always with this producer, this iconic nonvintage cuvée is dominated by Pinot Noir that gives impressive richness as well as ripe stone fruits. Wood fermentation adds further complexity as does the age of this bottling before release. Drink this Champagne now.
Disgorged in the second half of 2019, the latest release of Bollinger's NV Brut Special Cuvée is based on the 2015 vintage, complemented by around 60% reserve wines. The wine is still quite tightly wound after its recent disgorgement, opening in the glass with notes of crisp yellow orchard fruit, freshly baked bread, clear honey and orange peel, with little sign of the nuttiness to come with bottle age. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, muscular and incipiently textural, with a deep core, ripe acids and a pinpoint mousse. This isn't the most incisive vintage of Special Cuvée, but it's powerful and vinous and will have fine gastronomic potential with a little bottle age.
Bollinger's meaty blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 15% Pinot Meunier, with 25% Chardonnay too, seems a bit at odds with its gorgeously elegant bottle silhouette, modelled after the proportions of the house's magnums. But it all comes together when you taste it, the predominantly premier and grand cru grapes working their magic and delivering a full but fresh expression with plenty of appley fruit, cleansing acidity with a lick of lime, and full, briochey aromas.
La bodega
Maison Bollinger
Superficie total de viñedo: 160 ha.
Producción total: 2.500.000 botellas
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