Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB The 2021 vintage was cool

The 2021 vintage was cool and classical — exactly the kind of year this site shines in

Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s gin

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It’s a recovered 10-hectare

Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB The 2021 vintage was coolBollinger 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