Bollinger PN VZ16 Brut Champagne [D95][WE95][WA94][W&S94][WS94] WINE

Producer: Bollinger  
Region: Champagne, France  
Blend: 100% Pinot Noir 
Year: Non-Vintage 

Decanter, 95 Points 

“Produced exclusively from vineyards owned by Bollinger, this takes advantage of the dynamic equilibrium between the structured, robust Pinot Noir grape and a terroir that is late-ripening. Picking began on 25 September and delivered a wine with plenty of concentration and impressive freshness and balance, with expressive green apple fruit accented with notes of toast and smoke and a creamy, supple, and open texture.” 

Wine Enthusiast, 95 Points 

“Bollinger is famed for its Pinot Noir vineyards and this single-vineyard Champagne from the Grand Cru village of Verzenay is proof. It is intense, rich with mature fruits and the typical house style of toast mingled with almond.” 

Wine Advocate, 94 Points 

“Disgorged in January 2021, Bollinger’s newly released NV Brut Blanc de Noirs PN VZ16 offers up notions of pear, apple blossom, jasmine, orange zest and fresh pastry. Medium to full-bodied, precise and elegantly vinous, it’s layered and charming, with racy acids and a pretty pinpoint mousse, and it concludes with a sapid finish. It’s based on the 2016 vintage, complemented by older reserve wines matured in magnum, and derives, once again, largely from the village of Verzenay.” 

Wine & Spirits, 94 Points 

“The second release of Bollinger’s PN is based on fruit from Verzenay in the 2016 harvest. It’s all pinot noir, including the reserve wines, as muscular as Bollinger’s classic vintage wines but with a rich berry-fruit component to fill it with ripeness. There’s a ghosting of red-wine tannins in the cinnamon and red-apple-skin flavors that last with focus and precision.” 

Wine Spectator, 94 Points 

“Seamlessly knit and graceful, offering a lovely range of ripe cherry and nectarine fruit, with notes of slivered almond, orange blossom and fleur de sel slowly expanding on the palate via the finely detailed mousse and carried through the long, lacy finish by fine chinalike acidity.” 

Alcohol: 12.5% 

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