{"id":2644,"date":"2011-04-24T17:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2011-04-24T17:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:15:30","slug":"bollinger-rd-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/bollinger-rd-1999","title":{"rendered":"Bollinger RD 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2650\" title=\"IMGP8934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMGP8934-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easter Sunday treat. The latest release of Bollinger&#8217;s wonderful RD, which stands for &#8216;recently disgorged&#8217;. In this case, the wine had been on its lees until January this year. This helps the Champagne to develop in a really elegant way, and it&#8217;s instructive to try this wine alongside the Grande Annee 1999, which will have been pretty much the same wine to start with, but which will have spent a lot more of its life in bottle post-disgorgement. Grande Annee is disgorged at various times, so it may have spent five years on lees (the minimum) or as long as seven years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champagne Bollinger RD 1999<br \/>\n<\/strong>12% alcohol. Disgorged January 2011. Intense, taut and full flavoured, with complex toasty notes and bright citrus freshness. There&#8217;s also fine acidity, and notes of ripe apple, as well as some nectarine richness. Overall, though, this is a powerful wine with savoury bite, and the potential for further development. Wonderful stuff. 95\/100<\/p>\n<p>See my report on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com\/champagne\/bollinger_part1.htm\">visit to Bollinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Sunday treat. The latest release of Bollinger&#8217;s wonderful RD, which stands for &#8216;recently disgorged&#8217;. In this case, the wine had been on its lees until January this year. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,55],"tags":[155,376],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champagne","category-france","tag-champgane","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}