Bollinger

Bollinger has been the official Champagne partner of the James Bond film franchise since the Roger Moore era, appearing on screen from *Moonraker* onward across multiple decades of films. The house has released limited-edition Bollinger bottles designed specifically to coincide with Bond film premieres, further cementing the partnership between the Aÿ-based house and 007.

Unlike most large Champagne houses, Bollinger stores a significant portion of its reserve wines in small old oak casks—some reportedly over a century old—rather than modern stainless steel tanks. This practice imparts subtle oxidative complexity and texture, which are then blended into the non-vintage Special Cuvée to reinforce Bollinger's full-bodied, Pinot Noir-driven house style.

La Grande Année is Bollinger's prestige vintage Champagne, produced only in exceptional years and fermented entirely in oak barrels, unlike the multi-vintage Special Cuvée which blends reserve wines from multiple harvests. La Grande Année receives extended lees aging and represents the fullest expression of the house's Grand Cru Pinot Noir-dominated blend from a single declared vintage.

Vieilles Vignes Françaises (VVV) is Bollinger's ultra-rare cuvée produced from two tiny parcels of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera Pinot Noir vines grown on their own roots in the Grand Cru village of Aÿ. Because these vines survived the phylloxera epidemic without American rootstocks, the resulting Champagne is one of the rarest and most expensive in the world, produced in minuscule quantities.