Ratings & Tasting Notes:

96 points Vinous

The 2004 Brut Rose La Grande Annee is a beautifully focused, vibrant wine endowed with striking minerality and fabulous overall balance. Clean veins of chalkiness run through the fruit in this energetic, taut Rose, while seductive floral notes linger on the finish. The 2004 is 68% Pinot Noir (including 5% still Pinot) and 32% Chardonnay, 89% from Grand Cru villages and 11% from Premier Crus. The 2004 is very young, but it is going to be nearly impossible to resist. It is a dazzling effort from Bollinger. Disgorged September 2011. (AG)

96 points Wine & Spirits
Review Date: 12/2013
Barrel fermentation gives this wine ornate complexity, while its crisp structural lines make it feel very contemporary French. The plump red fruit races with dynamism, extending the suppleness of the texture into more dramatic territory than where Champagne often ventures, and lasts with a gentler, floral grace. A youthful ten-year-old wine, this is built for long development in the cellar.

95 points John Gilman
Review Date: 07/2015
The 2004 Bollinger “La Grande Année” Brut Rosé was disgorged only a couple of months prior to my tasting the wine, after spending fully nine and a half years aging sur latte in the maison’s cellars in Aÿ. The wine is comprised of a blend of seventy-two percent Pinot Noir and twenty-eight percent Chardonnay and was finished off with a dosage of seven grams per liter. Five percent of the Pinot Noir in the blend is still wine to give its lovely salmon color. The wine offers up a superb and very refined bouquet of blood orange, white cherry, rye toast, chalky minerality, lovely spice tones and a gentle topnote of citrus blossoms. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, crisp and complex, with outstanding mid-palate concentration, bright, seamless acids, elegant mousse and exceptional focus and grip on the long, complex and very energetic finish. This is a stellar bottle of vintage Rosé and perhaps the finest I have ever tasted of this cuvée from Bollinger!

95 points Wine Enthusiast
Review Date: 12/2012
This grand rosé is rich and rounded. Its red fruit flavors are layered with toast and spice notes, with depth that gives the wine another dimension of complexity. (RV)

Cult Wines International Notes:

Bollinger’s La Grande Année Rosé is a powerful and gastronomic vintage Champagne, produced only in years of exceptional quality and distinguished by its vinous character and traditional vinification methods. The blend is typically Pinot Noir-dominant (60–67%) and Chardonnay (33–40%), sourced exclusively from Grand and Premier Cru vineyards, with its distinctive color and structure achieved by blending in a small percentage (usually 5%) of still red wine from Bollinger’s rare, high-quality La Côte aux Enfants Grand Cru plot.

Unusually for Champagne, it is vinified entirely in small, old oak barrels without undergoing malolactic fermentation, a process that contributes significantly to its complexity and exceptional aging potential over a minimum of six to eight years on the lees under natural cork. Designed to be a “textured and gourmet” wine, La Grande Année Rosé is highly aromatic, displaying notes of redcurrant, black fruits, strawberry preserve, and citrus, beautifully layered with secondary aromas of toasted nuts and brioche from the barrel aging.

On the palate, it is full-bodied, rich, and highly structured with a creamy yet precise texture, delivering flavors of stone fruits, dried cherry, blood orange, and ginger, framed by racy acidity and fine tannins; possessing significant vinous character and dry extract, it leads to a long, harmonious finish. Due to its intensity and structure, La Grande Année Rosé is noted for its longevity, often with drinking windows extending 15–20 years or more after disgorgement.

Bottle Size:

750 mL

Storage History:

Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.

Condition:

Please note: The bottle shown is the exact bottle being sold.

A small label rip as shown. Some small sediments are present in the wine which is common for vintage rosé Champagne.