Region: France- Champagne
"Absolutely unique in Champagne, Bollinger "Vieilles Vignes Françaises" is the living relic of what Champagne was a century ago before phylloxera destroyed the vineyards of France. Mysteriously, in Aÿ and Bouzy, a few plots of ungrafted vines resisted...
Champagne Bollinger, founded in 1829, is one of Champagne's few remaining family-owned Grande Marque houses. Located in Ay, in the heart of the Côte des Noirs, it is renowned for the high percentage of Pinot Noir it uses and for the extra aging on the lees that its Champagnes receive.