NV Bollinger PN TX17 Champagne 750 ml

Bollinger’s Champagne excellence is built on Pinot Noir, and for years, bubbly lovers had a single option for experiencing a Bollinger Blanc de Noirs: take out a second mortgage for a bottle of their iconic Vieille Vignes Française. Current cost: almost $1900!

Can you see why we rejoiced when Bollinger debuted their PN series in 2020, their first new line of wines in over a decade—and created their first Blanc de Noirs NOT bearing the VVF label? 

We are extremely lucky to have an early allocation of Bollinger’s PN TX17. Just the third PN bottling, it’s built upon Pinot Noir from the 2017 vintage—and it epitomizes everything that has made Bollinger an icon. 

This bottle will bring enjoyment for a decade or more, and it’s a welcome addition to a lineup that has LONG wanted for an option that delivers the Bolly Blanc de Noirs experience without the four-digit price tag. 

In Champagne, a region best known for its nonvintage bottlings, producers achieve a consistent house style by blending a base wine—one grown in a recent vintage—with reserve wines from past vintages. These wines are generally cellared in stainless-steel tanks, which add the least amount of work to a notoriously labor-intensive process. 

But that’s not how it’s done at Bollinger. 

At the iconic Champagne house, that vast store of reserve wines is kept in magnums—over 800,000 of them, all stoppered with natural corks. This choice allows each precious wine to fully develop its subtlety and complexity—and to us, it sums up why we greet ANY new Bollinger bottling with unbridled celebration.

The result: a Champagne we wish we could share with every fanatic we know.