Bollinger La Grande Année 2018 in Gift Box Go-To the brand's first release

the brand's first release

La Grande Année is Bollinger's prestige cuvée - made only in years the house judges exceptional

who drove the move to a drier "brut" style in the 1870s

without an accent - feeling the term "non-vintage brut" didn't do justice to a Champagne of such subtlety

and here it leads - giving the wine its soft

Bollinger La Grande Année 2018 in Gift Box Go-To the brand's first releaseLa Grande Anne is Bollinger's prestige cuve made only in years the house judges exceptional, and 2018 is the first of a run of warm vintages already being talked about as one of Champagne's great trilogies. This is Champagne at its most serious, in the house's own gift box. What makes a Grande Anne is craft most houses have long abandoned. It's fermented entirely in oak barrels, built around Pinot Noir from the great Montagne de Reims villages, then