Bollinger 2012 Grande Annee champagne bottle with a dark green glass and white label displaying vintage details
Bollinger 2012 Grande Annee champagne with wooden box
Bollinger 2012 Grande Annee champagne bottle with a dark green glass and white label displaying vintage details
Bollinger 2012 Grande Annee champagne with wooden box
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Bollinger 2012 Grande Annee

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Description
The  2012 vintage is a Grande Annee showing the classic contrast between concentration, a full body and mineral austerity and fresh acidity. With ambra, hazelnut and dried apricot the elements of microoxidation dominate the discreet apple fruit. There are also intense smoky, spicy pinot noir aromas. With six years on lees this has been released rather early. It is in a very fresh, mineral style and less oxidative than many vintages in the past. 2012 can be quite forward now, but we advize cellaring this.
Ratings

95(94) As you know, I love the magical moment when I get the chance, as the first journalist, to lighten the cork of the latest vintage of Bollinger La Grande Année. We have been spoiled by a trend where these beauties were released later and later. In other words, more drinkable and mature than before. The most recent legendary vintage of 2008 was admittedly extremely youthful at launch despite its high actual age. Since neither 2009, 2010 nor 2011 was considered to be a big year at the discerning Aÿ house, 2012 is thus released at the age of 7.5. It should probably be a good age to drink a wine made in a consciously oxidative style on old oak barrels, but despite its great wealth and delicious aromatic profile, I advise you to put every bottle in the cellar between 5-10 years for the greatest possible enjoyment. The wine is made from 21 villages with Aÿ and Verzenay in the driver's seat backed by elegance from Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oiry. The wine is characterized by vitality and energy more than depth at present. The color has a brilliant golden glow and the mousse is almost panting in its resilient youthfulness. The scent is beautifully house typical, dominated by apricot, almond, hazelnut and a smoky sophisticated intensity as from a newly lit outdoor fire. The attack is stunningly intense and the weight in the oral cavity leaves nothing left to wish for. Resilient energy and fullness are combined with greatness, but the aftertaste is so far a little too one-tracked fresh. Here I am waiting for the final acids should be accompanied by deeper



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Fact sheet

750 mL

12.5

Champagne

Pinot Noir & Chardonnay

Sulphites

  • Extra Brut

Frankreich

Champagne Bollinger, 20 Boulevard Maréchal de Lattre, 51160 Aÿ, France