Bollinger Pinot Noir VZ 19 Brut Champagne （With Box）《Terroir Collection - ZTF049A》

Region : Champagne, France

Grapes : 100% Pinot Noir

Alcohol : 12.5%

Official Website : https://www.champagne-bollinger.com/en/

🌟 One of the most famous Champagne

🌟 Selected by British Royal from 1884 

🌟 Signature Champagne of James Bond 

🌟 Produced a perfect score Champagne of WA

🌟 85% Grand Cru/Premier Cru Grapes, with an addition of 5 to 6% red wine

🏅 Vinous 94pts

🏅 Vivino 4.4

Since 1829, Champagne Bollinger has been making great wines with a powerful, refined and complex style, expressing the aromas of the fruit in all its dimensions.

This truly unique taste is the result of a particular affinity for the elegance of pinot noir, uncompromising excellence, an exceptional vineyard and traditional craftsmanship handed down through the generations with the utmost care since 1829.

The Bollinger style is inimitable and recognised as such by great connoisseurs, the fruit of rigorous methods and a respect for principles handed down from one generation to the next in a great tradition that has always valued experience above all. This style expresses the aromas of the fruit in all its dimensions. The Bollinger style has a dense and subtle presence, a balance of the intensity of great pinot noirs and the freshness of chardonnays from the Côte des Blancs. Bollinger wines release a creamy effervescence resulting from vinifying in oak barrels and prolonged contact with the yeasts. They guarantee a unique tasting experience that always offers something new. This style stems from a solid base, rooted in 5 tangible principles: the House Vineyards; pinot noir; magnums of reserve wines; the barrels and time.

Over the years, Bollinger has built its vineyards at the heart of the finest crus in Champagne. Champagne Bollinger’s 180 hectares of vines are made up of 85% Grand and Premier crus and are farmed by our teams of growers across 7 separate vineyards: Aÿ, Avenay, Tauxières, Louvois and Verzenay for pinot noir, around the Montagne de Reims, Cuis for chardonnay on the Côte des Blancs and Champvoisy for meunier in the Vallée de la Marne.

Another of Bollinger’s distinctive features are two plots, the Clos Saint-Jacques and Chaudes Terres, which have never succumbed to phylloxera. These ungrafted vines are entirely tended by hand and reproduced using a form of layering called provignage, thereby providing the means to preserve this extraordinary heritage from which the very exclusive Vieilles Vignes Françaises cuvée is produced.

Stainless steel offers the advantage of preserving all the personality of a wine, due to its material and the fact that it is entirely sealed. Wood brings a different philosophy, based on exchange. Oak is a living substance and is slightly porous, which plays an important role in oxygenating the precious wines. Air, which is required in order for the flavours to flourish, circulates in very small quantities through the fibre of the wood. This slight and constant oxygenation helps soften the tannin, and control the acidity of the wine. The aromatic complexity of the champagne is therefore naturally more developed than if vinified in stainless steel.

Since 1829, Champagne Bollinger has always vinified its best crus in oak barrels. This is not something likely to change any time soon: Bollinger owns the largest collection of barrels in Champagne, with 4,000 units including “fûts” and “pipes”, some of which are over a hundred years old. This is a treasure that we care for to ensure its longevity, because using new barrels that would alter the aromas of the precious wines is out of the question. Each barrel comes from Burgundy, where it lived a former life.

“We only use second-hand barrels from Burgundy, where they have already vinified chardonnays, thereby avoiding the taste of new barrel.”

Every year, some of the best wines from the latest harvest are kept back. Some of our reserve wines are stored in magnums; Bollinger bottles some of them, vineyard by vineyard, year by year. They then join the more than 1 million reserve magnums that have been ageing in the cellars for five, ten, twelve or more years.

These wines held in magnum encapsulate a unique process: The bottles are sealed with a cork stopper and wire cage before being taken down to the cellar for the secondary fermentation or "prise de mousse" to occur. This “micro-champagnisation” helps stabilise the aromas of the wines for all the years they will spend in the cellar, patiently waiting to be used. This reserve allows the Cellar Master to make the most of this rich palette of aromas when it comes to blending. Explosive, yet subtle and precise, these aromatic bombs, unique in Champagne, lend Bollinger wines their incomparable character and their constant quality year after year.

Made exclusively from pinot noir, this singular champagne expresses Champagne Bollinger's unique vision of this grape variety. The new Bollinger PN cuvée embodies the ambition to highlight the variety of expressions of pinot noir by selecting the finest from several terroirs, each conveying a unique taste.

Each edition gives free rein to one main cru and one vintage, carefully selected by Champagne Bollinger, so that each new cuvée will be an reinvention of the original one. The Bollinger PN cuvée has become a new addition to Champagne Bollinger’s core range. The VZ15 edition is the first interpretation of it.

Pinot noir, the predominant variety in all its cuvées, is one of the essential pillars for Champagne Bollinger. With Bollinger PN, Champagne Bollinger introduces a second Blanc de Noirs into its core range, alongside the emblematic Vieilles Vignes Françaises. Its fragile nature makes it a demanding grape, requiring care at every step, and the wines it produces take a very long time to age. However, pinot noir brings an incomparable finesse to wines, which is revealed when vinified well. This is why pinot noir is one of the founding principles of Champagne Bollinger’s identity.

Each new edition of the Bollinger PN cuvée brings with it a singular and contemporary vision of the Maison’s terroir and expertise, acting as a symbol of the union between tradition and innovation. Today, Bollinger welcomes a new edition into their range: PN VZ19. The base year is a 2019. The principal cru is Verzenay. The result of a Blanc de Noirs made from 100% Pinot Noir, designed to make terroir the star of the show.

This new PN VZ19 edition, with its unique taste, is a new interpretation.

🏅 Vinous 94pts：

The NV (2019) PN VZ is another terrific wine in this new range of Champagnes from Bollinger that is now in itsfifth release. Exotic floral and spice notes play off a core of Pinot fruit in this captivating, mid-weight offering.Time in the glass accents the wine's inner sweetness and perfume. Pear, mint, jasmine and white pepper linger. inthis release, the (2019) PN VZ is like a mini-Vieilles Vignes Francaises. lt's an incredibly racy, sexy Blanc de NoirsThis release is based on 2019, with 50% reserve wines back to 2009. About half of the reserve wines were aged inmagnum.Dosage is 6 grams per liter.

$720/bottle