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Bollinger
Bollinger stands as one of Champagne's most prestigious houses, crafting exceptional wines since 1829. This family-owned estate in Aÿ is renowned for its traditional winemaking approach, using predominantly Pinot Noir from premier and grand cru vineyards to create powerful, structured champagnes with remarkable aging potential.
What sets Bollinger apart is its extraordinary commitment to rarity and craft: the house employs the last resident cooper in Champagne, maintaining 4,000 oak barrels—some over a century old—for fermenting its finest wines. Even more remarkable, Bollinger stores 800,000 magnums of reserve wines as "aromatic bombs" that infuse their blends with intense complexity and consistency year after year.
The estate also preserves two phylloxera-surviving vineyards with ungrafted vines tended entirely by hand, producing one of Champagne's rarest cuvées. This obsessive attention to tradition and detail earns Bollinger consistent critical acclaim for its rich, distinctive character defined by extended lees aging and uncompromising quality standards.
