La Grande Annee Rose
⏳ wine.drinking_window
Typically best enjoyed 5 to 20 years from the vintage release, with top vintages capable of aging even longer.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Roasted duck, seared wild salmon, roasted pigeon
✨ wine.spec_sheet
La Grande Année Rosé is an exquisite, vintage-dated prestige cuvée that represents the pinnacle of Bollinger's vinous craftsmanship. It is built upon the foundation of the house's exceptional La Grande Année, which is vinified entirely in old oak casks to develop unparalleled texture and micro-oxygenation. The defining magic of this rosé lies in the addition of a small percentage of still red wine sourced from the legendary, steep parcel of La Côte aux Enfants in Aÿ. This historic vineyard, once prized by French kings, imparts a magnificent structure, deep color, and complex red fruit character to the blend. The wine undergoes riddling and disgorgement entirely by hand after spending several years aging on its lees under natural cork, resulting in a Champagne of immense power, vinous complexity, and refined elegance.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Founded in 1829 in the historic village of Aÿ by Jacques Bollinger, Paul Renaudin, and Hennequin de Villermont, Champagne Bollinger is one of the region's most prestigious and fiercely independent family-owned houses. Renowned for its Pinot Noir-dominated blends and traditional production methods, Bollinger uniquely ferments its vintage wines in seasoned oak casks and maintains an extensive library of reserve wines aged in magnums under cork. The house's signature style is defined by its rich complexity, structure, and depth, best exemplified by legendary cuvées like Special Cuvée, La Grande Année, and the late-disgorged R.D. Additionally, Bollinger preserves a rare piece of viticultural history with its ungrafted, pre-phylloxera Pinot Noir vines used to produce the ultra-exclusive Vieilles Vignes Françaises.