Community Tasting Note
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Chrisinroch wrote:
January 17, 2013 - Not really a tasting note, just helpful info from Brad Baker (champagne warrior)
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Re: Bollinger Special Cuvee NV - help decoding the cork for disgorgement date
Post Number:#2 Postby Brad Baker » Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:21 am
Not on the cork, but on the bottle. Below is from the 2nd issue of my newsletter (April 2009)
How to decode the approximate disgorgement date from a bottle of Bollinger (any cuvee)
1. On each bottle there is a lot number that is normally found printed on the neck foil of the bottle
2. This code will have the following pattern: L###### where # represents a number
3. These numbers correlate to the following LYDDDBB (L412604) where:
• Y is the last digit in the year; 4 for 2004
• DDD is the day of the year; 126 for the 126th day of the year (early May)
• BB is the batch number for the day; 04 for the 4th batch of the day
• This bottle L412604 was disgorged between January and May of 2004"11 people found this helpful 15,111 views
2 Comments
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SLIMES commented:
9/28/13, 3:15 PM - Yeah thanks. I've just had a young bottle that was very dissappointing. Older half bottles however are a different story.
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Chrisinroch commented:
10/9/13, 8:33 AM - Remember though, this is just disgorgement dates. You can guesstimate vintages from them, but it's not exact.