PN VZ19
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2036
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted poultry such as guinea fowl, thinly sliced cured hams like Jamón Ibérico, and rich seafood dishes like seared scallops in a light butter sauce.
✨ Technical Specifications
Bollinger's PN VZ19 is a masterful expression of the house's signature grape, Pinot Noir, crafted to showcase the unique terroir of the Grand Cru village of Verzenay. This specific edition is built around the 2019 base vintage, a year of exceptional concentration and balance. Verzenay Pinot Noir is legendary for its chalky precision, vibrant acidity, and saline minerality, which beautifully tempers Bollinger's signature rich, oxidative house style. The blend incorporates older reserve wines, including some aged in Bollinger's famous magnum bottles, adding layers of complexity and depth. Vinified partly in old oak barrels and aged on its lees in the cool chalk cellars of Aÿ, this Blanc de Noirs carries on the legacy of Lily Bollinger, who famously championed the character of Pinot Noir in Champagne. It offers a captivating dialogue between the power of the grape and the cool, mineral-driven elegance of the northern Montagne de Reims.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1829 in Aÿ by Hennequin de Villermont, Paul Renaudin, and Jacques Bollinger, Maison Bollinger endures as one of Champagne's preeminent independent, family-owned Grandes Marques. Its identity was indelibly forged under the visionary stewardship of Madame Lily Bollinger in the mid-twentieth century. The estate controls approximately 180 hectares of vineyards, dominated by Grand and Premier Cru parcels across the Montagne de Reims and Vallée de la Marne, rooted in deep Belemnite chalk and limestone. Bollinger is celebrated for its Pinot Noir-centric architectural style, championing vinification in seasoned oak barrels, magnum reserve aging under natural cork, and extensive cellar maturation before disgorgement. The portfolio is epitomized by Special Cuvée and La Grande Année, reaching transcendental complexity in R.D. (Récemment Dégorgé) and the elusive Vieilles Vignes Françaises, produced from ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines trained en foule.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier