Definition: bollinger

Absolutely unique in Champagne, Bollinger's "Vieilles Vignes Françaises" is a living relic of what champagne must have been like in the past, before French vineyards were ravaged by phylloxera. Mysteriously, in Aÿ, a few plots of ungrafted vines have resisted the aphid that came from America. The Bollinger family decided to preserve them. This charter also specifies the ageing times and conditions. Like other great champagne houses, Bollinger offers a whole range of cuvées, culminating in the famous RD, recently disgorged, alluding to this Champagne practice. See RD