Recently Karen and I attended a Bollinger dinner at Vue du Monde in Melbourne in the lead up to the Melbourne Cup. Bollinger is a wonderful, old traditional Champagne House still privately owned by the Bollinger family with an excellent Non Vintage and vintage champagne. Please find my tasting notes below.
Bollinger 'Special Cuvee'. Tasted 2nd November 2009
The wine opened with a delightfully fine bead and youthful yellow / green hue.
The nose was yeasty with aromas of freshly baked bread, warm from the oven, very appealling. The palate was soft and creamy with tremendous delicacy and length.
Many champagne houses keep their reserve wines in tank or large barrel but amazingly Bollinger keep half a million magnums filled with their reserve wines in their cellar for blending purposes. It is the combination of these older reserve vintages blended with a predominantly younger vintage that make up the Special Cuvee.
Bollinger La Grande Annee 1999 Tasted 2nd November 2009.
Slightly more yellow in colour than the Special Cuvee the 1999 none the less pocessed the same fine bead. The nose was more complex with aromas of vegimite, toast and almond. The palate was full and very intense though not extracted. The house style of delicacy, and creaminess with wonderfull length of flavour came through.
Friday, November 6, 2009
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