1999 Bollinger Champagne Vieilles Vignes Françaises

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  2/24/2024 - burg++23 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The mighty VVF was on my wishlist for a long long time and does not disappoint! Slightly oxidative but I think only in style and still super fresh on the palate. The energy in the wine is really impressive, and unfold all sorts of ripe fruit on the palate. Really enjoyed it!

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  2/24/2024 - hprphf wrote: 95 Points

  OWC. Incredibly fresh with barely any oxidative sign. Strength and elegance in one seamless sip, vintage ripeness throughout, so long and so large beneath the still tight nectar. 94-95

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  2/24/2024 - nmmnori Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Gevery Luncheon (Manhatta): From DJCV. A lovely wine of amazing tension and energy. Extremely fresh and youthful lacking the characteristic house oxidative marks.
  
  This wine was tightly wound and improved substantially with air. One of the wines of the lunch and will certainly improve with age.

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  8/5/2023 - Papies wrote: 97 Points

  Papies at 30 (The Waterside Inn): The sommelier at The Waterside Inn pushed hard for this ( indeed the price was retail value ) and that they had one recently and it was exceptional. We generally worry with Bollinger wines and longevity but this is not an ordinary wine and given the provenance this was in another dimension.
  We think the reaction of our friend who upon arriving late was thrusted a glass and was still in the midst of settling down smelled this and went " wow " and then look up to us in a stage of amazement as if to say what have we got here! :)
  And indeed has that effect , impressively bright even though it is well aged and mature, balanced and effortless wine with a soft mousse and a sublime palate feel. Pointless to say more. An exceptional wine and an easy 97+

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  3/21/2023 - fcxj wrote: 96 Points

  Still tight, but I like this linear expression.

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