Bollinger Special Cuvée 007 Champagne Limited Ed Gift Box

Winemaking Notes
Bollinger Special Cuvée NV Champagne is a blend of 60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, and 15% Pinot Meunier, with over 85% Grands and Premiers crus ensuring exceptional quality and character. The high percentage of Pinot Noir ensures a full-bodied, rich style that defines Bollinger's distinctive house character, whilst the addition of 5 to 10% reserve wines, each aged up to fifteen years, gives remarkable complexity and depth to the final blend. This careful incorporation of reserve wines is central to the Special Cuvée's consistent quality and mature character, allowing the wine to display layers of flavour that develop from extended lees ageing. The wine shows yeast on the nose, dry and toasty in the mouth, with great length and perfect balance that exemplifies Bollinger's commitment to traditional Champagne production methods. The extended maturation on lees contributes to the wine's brioche aromas and toasty characteristics, whilst the high proportion of Pinot Noir from Grands and Premiers crus vineyards provides the structure, richness, and firmness that make this the definitive "masculine" style in Champagne terms. The final word goes to Madame Lily Bollinger, who famously said: "I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."

Vintage Conditions
In 1911, Georges Bollinger's British agent gave him the idea for the name Special Cuvée - "special" written the English way, without an accent, believing the French expression "Brut sans année" was no match for such a subtle champagne. More than a hundred years later, the name of Bollinger's key figure champagne still symbolises both its expertise and its history, representing a continuity of quality and style that has made it one of the world's most respected and iconic Champagnes. The non-vintage nature of Special Cuvée allows Bollinger's cellar master to blend wines from multiple years, creating a consistent house style that transcends individual vintage variations whilst maintaining the exceptional quality that defines the Bollinger name. The use of reserve wines aged up to fifteen years provides a depth and complexity that would normally only be found in vintage Champagnes, whilst the careful selection of over 85% Grands and Premiers crus fruit ensures that only the finest grapes contribute to this iconic blend. This approach to blending, combining the best characteristics of multiple vintages with carefully aged reserve wines, results in a Champagne of remarkable consistency and quality, offering the full-bodied richness, perfect balance, and persistent fine bead that have made Bollinger Special Cuvée the choice of discerning Champagne lovers for over a century, and the official Champagne of James Bond since 1979.