2007 bollinger, la grande annee rose

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Why We're Buying

The sibling of Bollinger La Grande Année, the Rosé version has a personality all its own. It leads with strawberry and raspberry aromas while maintaining the multi-layered complexity that Bollinger is known for. To quote Wine.com's Wilfred Wong, "No one does it better." It was the least surprising news of the year. Critics loved 2012 Bollinger La Grande Année Rosé. Not only that, but the Champagne earned its highest aggregate scores of any vintage. La Grande Année Rosé wins over people from the start with lavish aromas and flavors of red berries, honey, nuts, and sweet spice. Known as James Bond’s favorite Champagne, Bollinger is often described as powerful and muscular. While La Grande Année Rosé demonstrates consistent weight and power, it wields more grace and subtlety than most wines in the Bollinger portfolio. The driving forces behind this multidimensional rosé: an immaculate 2012 growing season. A mild and sunny autumn led to richly concentrated ripe grapes. Contrary to the prevailing customs of the region, Bollinger ages the champagne in magnums rather than tanks. The result is a wine that is uniquely Bollinger.

Critics Scores

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

A blend of 72 Pinot Noir (mainly from Aÿ and Verzenay) with 28 Chardonnay (Cramant and Oger), Bollinger's 2007 La Grande Année Rosé Brut is a rich and powerful yet fresh and tightly woven Champagne that gets its characteristic coral color from the addition of 6 red Côte aux Enfants Pinot Noir from Aÿ. Fermented entirely in barrels and aged under natural cork, the 2007 offers a chalky-pure and matured bouquet of redcurrants, green figs, dark chocolate, minty and dried floral expressions. Very fresh and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, dense, complex and structured rosé with a long, intense and well-structured finish that reveals the youthful soul of this fresh and chalky 2007. This is a long-distance runner and surely a wine to have with poultry dishes such as duck or pigeon. It will strongly benefit from further bottle aging.

Wine Spectator

Fragrant, with notes of chalk and spring blossom on the nose, this fresh and focused version offers a finely detailed, lacy palate of white raspberry, peach skin, toast and candied ginger flavors. Long and creamy on the spice- and smoke-laced finish. Disgorged November 2016. Drink now through 2030.

Wine Enthusiast

The age shows in the onionskin color of this wine. On the palate it reveals itself in the sort of toastiness for which this producer is famed. The fruit is ripe, still hinting at red berries while moving much more to spice, almonds and mature acidity. Drink this remarkable wine now.