2014 Bollinger • Brut La Grande Année
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 8th Mar 2022
Source March 2022 Week 1, The Wine Advocate
Rating 95 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2045
Offering up complex aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, confit citrus, frangipane, walnuts, dried white flowers and subtle hints of iodine, Bollinger's 2014 Brut La Grande Annee is medium to full-bodied, pillowy and vinous, with an elegantly fleshy core of fruit that's underpinned by racy acids and complemented by a pretty pinpoint mousse. Concluding with a long, chalky finish, this is a charming but precise Grande Annee that's more giving and demonstrative than its immediate predecessor, the 2012, but which attains a very similar level of quality in a more challenging vintage?testimony to the serious viticulture that underpins Bollinger's contemporary excellence.