Bollinger, PN, TX20, NV
Lovely red hedgerow berries and fleshy citrus fruit. It exhibits orange rind and grapefruit bitterness with just a hint of nutmeg and vanilla. Cream drenched pastry juxtapose perfectly with savoury soy and umami notes and a vibrant floral lift. It is incredibly young and virile yet somehow vinous, saline and mature – blind, you would struggle to know if the wine was young or old. Every iteration seems to grow on the last, as the Bollinger team continue to hone and perfect this cuvee.
critic reviews
The NV PN-TX20 is a powerful, tightly wound wine. All the drive of Pinot comes through in this decidedly virile Champagne. As with all the wines in this new series from Bollinger, the NV PN-TX20 is built around a base wine, in this case 2020 Pinot Noir from Tauxières, with 50% reserve wines, half of them from Bollinger's extensive library of reserve wines aged in magnum. This is an especially vinous Champagne, one that needs at least a year or two in bottle to unwind. The year was characterized by a relatively short cycle of just 87 days from flowering to a harvest that began on August 25. Dosage is 8 grams per liter. Disgorged: January, 2025.