Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB and almonds

and almonds

Blue Gin is a gin-drinker’s gin

and aged in neutral oak foudres

Give it a few minutes to open up and it keeps unfolding

Altkirch comes from cooler

Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 CRUSEBUB and almondsBollinger 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