Description

Le Spécial Cuvée, véritable garant du style Bollinger, est élaboré avec le plus grand soin. Produit à partir de vins des deux dernières vendanges, dont la plupart sont des vins de réserve (une véritable particularité chez Bollinger), c’est non seulement un grand vin, mais aussi le reflet de tout l’engagement de qualité de la Maison Bollinger.

Fiche technique

Le domaine
Maison Bollinger
Type de vin
Champagne
Alcool
12.0% vol.
Cépage
60% Pinot noir, 25% Chardonnay, 15% Meunier
Origine
Champagne

Accord mets et vin

Blini con salmón ahumado y crema agria

El toque cítrico y la burbuja fina de este champagne complementa de manera excepcional la acidez de la crema agria y el sabor untuoso del salmon ahumado.

Dégustation

Visual
Couleur or intense.
Nez
Arômes à l’intensité adéquate. Citron, arômes torréfiés, pâtisserie et noisettes.
Bouche
Frais et très savoureux, bulle soyeuse et persistante.
Température de service
10 ºC
Garde
Jusqu’en 2030 s’il est conservé dans de bonnes conditions.
Accord mets et vin
Idéal en apéritif, sur des fruits de mer, des poissons ou des viandes blanches.

Vignoble et élaboration

Vendanges
Plus de 60 % du raisin proviennent de vignobles de la Maison Bollinger, situés dans la région des Grands Crus et Premiers Crus de la Montagne de Reims et de la Côte des Blancs.
Vinification
Première fermentation partielle en fût de chêne.
Elevage
Vieilli durant minimum 3 ans avant son dégorgement.
Embouteillage
Après le dégorgement, il repose minimum 3 mois avant d’être commercialisé.

L'avis des experts

James Suckling:

Lovely density and a fine-bubble texture. Dried apple and apricot with hints of dried flowers. Medium to full body. with medium-rich fruit. Spice, zest and ginger character. Usually 10% in barrel. 60% pinot noir, 25% chardonnay and 15% pinot meunier. About 40% reserve wine kept in magnums. Always really well done. Drink now.

Jeb Dunnuck:

Bollinger’s NV Special Cuvée knocks it out of the park. Made from 60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay and the rest Pinot Meunier, with 30% of the blend brought up in barrels, it boasts a rich, deep, medium to full-bodied style as well as terrific notes of lemon curd, crème brûlée, caramelized stone fruits, and hints of toasty nuttiness that develop with time in the glass. It’s a big, rich Champagne that stays balanced and pure. Beautiful stuff.

Wine Enthusiast:

As always with this producer, this iconic nonvintage cuvée is dominated by Pinot Noir that gives impressive richness as well as ripe stone fruits. Wood fermentation adds further complexity as does the age of this bottling before release. Drink this Champagne now.

The Wine Advocate:

Disgorged in the second half of 2019, the latest release of Bollinger's NV Brut Special Cuvée is based on the 2015 vintage, complemented by around 60% reserve wines. The wine is still quite tightly wound after its recent disgorgement, opening in the glass with notes of crisp yellow orchard fruit, freshly baked bread, clear honey and orange peel, with little sign of the nuttiness to come with bottle age. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, muscular and incipiently textural, with a deep core, ripe acids and a pinpoint mousse. This isn't the most incisive vintage of Special Cuvée, but it's powerful and vinous and will have fine gastronomic potential with a little bottle age.

Decanter:

Bollinger's meaty blend of 60% Pinot Noir and 15% Pinot Meunier, with 25% Chardonnay too, seems a bit at odds with its gorgeously elegant bottle silhouette, modelled after the proportions of the house's magnums. But it all comes together when you taste it, the predominantly premier and grand cru grapes working their magic and delivering a full but fresh expression with plenty of appley fruit, cleansing acidity with a lick of lime, and full, briochey aromas.