Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB 42-hectare parcel shines through in

42-hectare parcel shines through in wines aged at 40% new oak that capture refined red fruit

From the grape "Solaris" made with no dosage

It’s a recovered 10-hectare

Freisa is an ancestral Piedmontese variety

Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s gin

Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB 42-hectare parcel shines through inBollinger is one of the rare grandes marques producing Champagne at the level of the finest growers bold, powerful, luxurious, and unmistakably itself. R. D. stands for Recemment Degorge: the same base wine as the Grande Annee, but held on its lees for vastly longer before disgorgement. This is the 3rd disgorgement of the 2008 meaning the wine spent roughly seventeen years on lees, an extraordinary stretch even by Bollinger's standards. The blend