Champagne Bollinger

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This famous Aÿ house, founded in 1829, remains family-owned, though Joseph Bollinger's great-grandson handed over the reins to Jérôme Philipon in 2008 . Bollinger is perhaps the epitome of Champagne for purists, vinified in small barrels. Bollinger has subtly evolved its style to become more approachable without losing its original standards, producing superbly vinous, profound Champagnes of exceptional finesse—true wines for the table. 

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Bollinger Special Cuvée

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History of Champagne Bollinger

The house is founded on February 6, 1829, in Aÿ under the name Renaudin-Bollinger. Three men join forces: Athanase Hennequin de Villermont, heir to vineyards in Champagne; Paul Renaudin, a keen connoisseur of the region’s wines; and Joseph Bollinger, a merchant of German origin who takes the first name Jacques in France. His marriage to Charlotte de Villermont unites the two families for generations and seals the estate’s future. Over the generations, the house expands, acquires plots in the finest crus and forges an unmistakable style.

In 1941, following the death of her husband Jacques, Lily Bollinger takes the reins of the house, which she will lead for three decades. A legendary figure in Champagne, she cycles through the vineyards, develops exports and creates several cuvées that become benchmarks, including R.D. and Vieilles Vignes Françaises. Since 1979, Bollinger has also been James Bond’s champagne of choice, a partnership that has greatly boosted its international profile. Still controlled by the family’s descendants today, the house is actively preparing for its bicentennial in 2029.

Terroirs and Vineyards of Champagne Bollinger

The Bollinger vineyard covers approximately 180 hectares, more than 85% of them in Grand Cru and Premier Cru villages, allowing the house to supply a large share of its own grape needs. Pinot Noir, its signature variety, reigns over the terroirs of the Montagne de Reims and the Grande Vallée de la Marne: Aÿ, Avenay, Tauxières, Louvois and Verzenay. Chardonnay comes primarily from Cuis on the Côte des Blancs, while Meunier is grown in Champvoisy in the Marne Valley. The chalk and clay-limestone soils of these crus bring tension, depth and minerality to the wines.

Two treasures distinguish this terroir: plots of ungrafted vines that have never been grafted and were spared by phylloxera, cultivated using the old layering method known as provignage; and the Côte aux Enfants, a steep Aÿ hillside patiently restored by Jacques Bollinger in the early 20th century. Certified High Environmental Value since 2012, the house has begun converting its entire vineyard to organic farming, with particular attention to biodiversity.

Winemaking at Champagne Bollinger

Bollinger’s winemaking is founded on exacting, unusual choices. Only the first-press juice is selected. A significant share of the wines ferments in old oak barrels maintained by the house’s cooper, who has even made a few barrels from wood sourced from the family forest in Cuis since 2019. This time in oak, combined with malolactic fermentation, gives the champagnes their generous texture and aromas of ripe fruit, spice and toast.

Another distinctive practice: reserve wines are kept on their lees in magnums, some for several decades. This unique library gives the nonvintage blends incomparable depth. Vintage cuvées age under cork rather than crown caps, and all spend far longer in the cellar than the Champagne appellation requires before receiving a measured dosage.

The Cuvées of Champagne Bollinger

Special Cuvée: the house’s emblematic cuvée blends predominantly Pinot Noir with Chardonnay and a little Meunier, sourced largely from Grand Cru and Premier Cru villages. Enriched with reserve wines aged in magnums and partially vinified in barrels, it appeals with notes of pear, brioche and walnut, and a palate that is both powerful and fresh.

Bollinger Rosé: launched in 2008, this rosé starts with Special Cuvée, to which a Pinot Noir red wine is added. The result is a generous champagne with red-fruit aromas, a light tannic structure and appealing depth, ideal with food.

PN (Pinot Noir series): the first cuvée added to the permanent range since the rosé, PN is a blanc de noirs made entirely from Pinot Noir. Each release highlights a dominant cru and a base year. The releases include VZ15, VZ16 and VZ19 for Verzenay, TX17 and TX20 for Tauxières, and AYC18 and AYC21 for Aÿ. Each offers a different expression of the grape, spanning brilliance, salinity and richness, thanks to a high proportion of reserve wines.

La Grande Année: produced only in exceptional years, this vintage cuvée is fermented entirely in barrels and aged under cork. Predominantly Pinot Noir, it displays great aromatic intensity and remarkable aging potential. The 2018 vintage marks the first step toward the house’s bicentennial.

La Grande Année Rosé: born of Lily Bollinger’s insistence on nothing less than an exceptional rosé, it combines La Grande Année with a red wine from the Côte aux Enfants. Powerful yet refined, it brings together red fruit, spice and toasted notes.

R.D.: created by Madame Bollinger, with its first vintage, 1952, released in 1967, this cuvée takes its name from “Récemment Dégorgé,” meaning “recently disgorged.” It is a La Grande Année aged for a long time on its lees, then disgorged shortly before release as an Extra Brut. The 2008 vintage, a blend of 71% Pinot Noir and 29% Chardonnay, combines brilliance, tension and complexity.

B Series (B13 and B16): these small-production vintage cuvées arose when weather conditions did not allow La Grande Année to be made. B13 and B16 thus offer a more unexpected, often more ethereal interpretation of the Bollinger style, with a low dosage and long cellar aging.

Vieilles Vignes Françaises: one of Champagne’s rarest cuvées, made entirely from Pinot Noir grown on ungrafted vines in Aÿ using an ancestral method. Launched in 1974 with the 1969 vintage, it offers extraordinary concentration, richness and length in very limited quantities.

La Côte aux Enfants Champagne: this vintage blanc de noirs, made entirely from Pinot Noir, comes from the northwestern slope of the Côte aux Enfants in Aÿ Grand Cru. It reveals a more finely etched and elegant expression of this legendary vineyard site, with precise fruit and lovely chalky freshness.

La Côte aux Enfants Coteaux Champenois: a rare still red wine made from Pinot Noir grown on this emblematic hillside, aged in small oak barrels in the Burgundian style and produced only in years of exceptional ripeness. It carries on the tradition of Aÿ reds, once prized at the court of Henry IV.

Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition: a collector’s edition celebrating the longstanding partnership between Bollinger and James Bond, launched to coincide with the film No Time to Die. This limited-edition champagne combines the house’s vinous character with exclusive packaging highly sought after by enthusiasts and collectors.

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