Forbes’ latest gift guide, Holiday Gift Guide 2019: The Top Prestige Cuvée Champagnes, features Champagne Bollinger La Grand Année 2008 as the first bottle within the story and the featured photo. Writer Lauren Mowery highlights Bollinger’s long-standing relationship as 007’s Champagne of choice and notes that “American consumers need to catch up on the allure of Bollinger wines.” The recommendation also mentions the house’s unique aging style and that this blend is only produced in exceptional years. She explains it is refined and to “expect a broadly textured, nuanced wine with a dash of spice atop citrus peel, lemon curd, vanilla bean following a backbone of fresh acidity.” Read more about it HERE
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Champagne Bollinger La Grande Année 2008
Champagne, France
La Grande Année: The Great Year. This Champagne is the embodiment of everything that makes Bollinger the producer that stands apart in Champagne. La Grande Année, or LGA, preserves the traditions of the past and symbolizes the word "hand-crafted" so strongly that an overused word suddenly becomes the only appropriate definition.
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Bollinger is one of the rare Grande Marques that’s still family owned. Known for its rich, elegant and polished style of Champagne, their outstanding wines are the result of rigorous attention to detail and incredibly labor-intensive practices that few houses are willing to undertake. Underscoring its excellence, Bollinger has remained British secret agent James Bond's Champagne of choice since 1973.