Bollinger Champagne Gift Box

A superb Bollinger Brut champagne Gift Box. This box includes one Bollinger Special Cuvee and one Bollinger Rosé champagne carefully packed into our stunning Premium Packaging box.

SPECIAL CUVEE CHAMPAGNE:

Golden colour, distinctive of black grape varieties, very fine bubbles. On the nose, a beautiful aromatic complexity, ripe fruit and spicy aromas, hints of roasted apples, apple compote and peaches. On the palate, a subtle combination of structure, length and vivacity, bubbles like velvet, pear, brioche and spicy aromas, notes of fresh walnut.

• Winery: Bollinger
  
• Varietal: 60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, 15% Meunier
  
• Region: Champagne, France
  
• Vintage: NV
  
• Alcohol: 12%
  
• Volume: 750ml
  
• Closure: Cork
  
• Other: Contains sulphites
  
• Food match: Lobster, shrimp, shellfish, smoked salmon, caviar, oysters, fried chicken, Brie-style cheeses, fruit-based desserts (tarts and crepes)
  

ROSÉ CHAMPAGNE:

This classy Bollinger Rosé Champagne offers aromas of raspberries, wild strawberries, red currants and cherry notes. The lively berries follow through to the palate with red apples and hints of cinnamon. It’s well structured, harmonious, with excellent depth of flavours and a long lasting, biscuity finish.

• Winery: Bollinger
  
• Varietal: 62% Pinot Noir, 24% Chardonnay, 14% Meunier
  
• Region: Champagne, France
  
• Vintage: NV
  
• Alcohol: 12%
  
• Volume: 750ml
  
• Closure: Cork
  
• Other: Contains sulphites, 85%+ Grands and Premiers Crus
  
• Food match: Smoked salmon, shrimp, crab cakes, duck, cured meats, red fruits

You can leave a personal message for the receiver at checkout and we will print it out onto a branded card and include inside the box.

Don't forget you can pick & mix your own gift box or add to this gift box if you wish. Simply add the wines and/or spirits you want included in your gift box to your Cart and we'll do the rest.

Bollinger’s exceptional vineyard - The House’s 178 hectares are planted with 85% of Grand Cru and Premier Cru vines, spread over seven main vineyards: Aÿ, Avenay, Tauxières, Louvois et Verzenay are planted with Pinot Noir, Cuis with Chardonnay and Champvoisy with Pinot Meunier. Bollinger is one of a very few champagne Houses to produce the majority of their own grapes for their blends. Pinot Noir represents 60% of the House’s vineyard, corresponding to the exact proportion of this demanding grape variety in the Special Cuvée blend. Complex and powerful, it provides Bollinger wines with their remarkable structure. Another of Bollinger’s distinctive features are two plots, the Clos Saint-Jacques and Chaudes Terres, which have never succumbed to phylloxera, the disease which ravaged almost all of the champagne wine-growing area in the early 20th century. These ungrafted vines are entirely tended by hand and reproduced using a form of layering called provignage, thereby providing the means to preserve this extraordinary heritage from which the very exclusive Vieilles Vignes Françaises cuvée is produced.

Preserving and improving the vineyard - The Bollinger vines are an integral part of the geography of the Champagne region, their straight rows, which count for some of the most tightly planted in the world, creating a highly recognisable landscape. To preserve this harmony, the House constantly improves its vineyard by replacing iron stakes by pine posts, planting flowers and installing pristine boundary markers. Bollinger also supports sustainable winegrowing by grassing over the ground, using biological pest control, significantly reducing the use of herbicides and recycling pruning waste. Planting hedges and orchards helps to preserve biodiversity, while the 4 hectares of the Côte aux Enfants vineyard are managed organically. Bollinger is the first champagne House to obtain High Environmental Value certification, marking the strength of its commitment to protecting the vineyard.

SPECIAL CUVEE CHAMPAGNE:

• Double Gold - 2020 New Zealand International Wine Show
  
• Gold - 2019 New Zealand International Wine Show
  
• 95/100 Points - Bob Campbell
  
• 95/100 Points - Jeannie Cho Lee
  
• 94/100 Points - Falstaff Magazin
  
• 92/100 Points - Wine Enthusiast
  
• 92/100 Points - Spectator
  
• 17/20 Points - La Revue du Vin de France
  
• 4.5 Stars - Cuisine - Champagne Over $100 Champagne
  
• 16.5/20 Points - Vinum Wine Magazine
  
• 94/100 Points - Gilbert & Gaillard
  
• 94/100 Points - Huon Hooke
  

ROSÉ CHAMPAGNE:

• Gold - NZ International Wine Show
  
• 5 Stars - Cuisine Magazine
  
• 91/100 Points - Decanter