2005 Bollinger Champagne La Grande Année Rosé

A good rest on lees in the cellar through to May 2015 has seen this salmon-colored rosé develop a wealth of dried porcini mushroom aromas that really make a savory statement. It's gently smoky and shows some dried cherry fruits too - a gastronomic dream! The palate's smoothly cut with creamy red-cherry-fruit flavors and hints of pink grapefruit. It freshens into the finish. Thanks especially to a complex layered structure, this really is a brilliant rosé. Drink now.

Disgorged with eight grams per liter dosage, Bollinger's 2012 Brut La Grande Année Rosé is showing beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of raspberries, plums, orange rind, walnuts and fresh bread that only hint of the complexity to come. Full-bodied, broad and vinous, with fine depth at the core, a pinpoint mousse and racy acids, it concludes with a long and perfumed finish. The blend includes 5% red wine exclusively from Bollinger's La Côte Aux Enfants vineyard-which imparts delicate phenolic grip.

LGA Rosé is La Grande Année with a tiny inclusion of red wine from the same vintage. Bollinger's new rosé beckons from its radiant, full salmon copper gown with exuberant, extroverted and flamboyant appeal. Even a tiny dose of just 5% red wine heightens its purity and depth of gorgeous cherry fruits, cherry kernel and anise, hovering above a grand expanse of fruit mince spice, golden fruit cake, grilled pineapple, juicy peach and cherry liqueur. It intricately laces beautifully fine tannin structure with the grip and depth of the warm 2005 season, lingering very long with red cherry purity. It's attained its full magnificence already, a vintage to drink early.

Intens mineralsk, jordbærnoter. Cremet og fyldig vin med stor koncentration og flot balance. Uden diskussion en klassevin.

A cuvée first introduced in 1983, the 2005 La Grande Année Rosé comes from a single parcel and is more savory, tertiary, and mineral-laced than the la Grande Année cuvée. Aged 10 years in bottle on lees, this medium to full-bodied, complex, incredibly pretty 2005 has classic notes of dried cherries, toasted spice, chalky minerality, and dried flowers. It's a singular beauty that blossoms with time in the glass and should shine for another 10-15 years.

Jeg elsker husets stil, så det er fint bare med en almindelige brut, selv om de mere specielle vine rækker mod stjernerne. F.eks. er La Grande Année Rosé en af dem, jeg allerhelst vil have i glasset.

Gid vi havde råd til at drikke den slags lidt oftere. Delikat, stor vin. Fin diskret frugt.

Quelle énergie de fruit ! Vigoureux et tonique, il offre une bouche de belle intensité avec du fond et un côté juteux. Très prometteur.

Wonderfully aromatic and finely detailed, with a layered profile of dried apricot, raw almond, honey, ground coffee, nutmeg and orange bergamot. Shows power and focus, yet this is set in a sleek, finely knit frame. The chalky minerality firms the long, smoky finish. Disgorged July 2015. Drink now through 2026.-A.N.

Elegant bleg laksefarve. Frisk, delikat og klassisk næse med masser af charme. Elegant og sammensat krydderi og med rig rank rød frugt og et touch orangeskal. Kompleks og detaljerig. Givende og med modne røde bærtoner i fokus. Saftig, frisk og givende. En komposition i teknisk særklasse og med masser af charme. En vin, der er en oplevelse i sig selv.

Elegant bleg laksefarve. Frisk, delikat og klassisk næse med masser af charme. Elegant og sammensat krydderi og med rig rank rød frugt og et touch orangeskal. Kompleks og detaljerig. Givende og med modne røde bærtoner i fokus. Saftig, frisk og givende. En komposition i teknisk særklasse og med masser af charme. En vin, der er en oplevelse i sig selv.