Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 RFLASH a local Caribbean bark

a local Caribbean bark

Pierre Duroché has quietly become one of the most coveted names in Gevrey-Chambertin

Despite its intensity and girth

mostly destemmed

gently pressed in an old vertical wood press

Bollinger Champagne Extra Brut R.D. [3rd Disgorgement] 2008 RFLASH a local Caribbean barkBollinger 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