Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB It’s a recovered 10-hectare

It’s a recovered 10-hectare

Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s gin

Freisa is an ancestral Piedmontese variety

and almonds

and aged in neutral oak foudres

Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB It’s a recovered 10-hectareBollinger is one of the rare grandes marques producing Champagne at the level of the finest growers bold, powerful, luxurious, and unmistakably itself. R. D. stands for Recemment Degorge: the same base wine as the Grande Annee, but held on its lees for vastly longer before disgorgement. This is the 3rd disgorgement of the 2008 meaning the wine spent roughly seventeen years on lees, an extraordinary stretch even by Bollinger's standards. The blend