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NV Jacques Bolland Blanc de Noirs Champagne 750 ml
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Family History Has Real Value in Champagne
Grower Champagne from the Côte des Bar is the hottest thing in bubbles right now, for good reason: The area is home to producers like Vouette et Sorbée, Marie Courtin, and Cédric Bouchard—all of whom regularly sell bottles for north of $200.
It’s perhaps the home for the ambitious young producer to plant a new flag, but brothers Armel and José of Champagne Jacques Bolland beat them to the punch…by over 350 years. In the 11 generations since their family started making wine in the Côte des Bar, they’ve acquired a carefully curated collection of six hectares of prime vineyard sites, all certified sustainably-farmed—and with those assets, they produce a stunning Blanc de Noirs.
As Champagne’s southernmost appellation, the Côte des Bar sits closer to Chablis than to Reims. It shares the same limestone and clay soils as Chablis, too, lending this wine an extraordinary mineral quality while simultaneously delivering the supple fruit we want in a Pinot-driven sparkler—especially after three years en tirage, which gives the wine volume and texture.
Pinot Noir is king here, where vineyards rooted in soils checkered with Kimmeridgian bands lend themselves to rich, fruity Champagnes whose minerality distinguishes them from those made in the chalkier subsoils of the Marne in the north.
Critic Eric Asimov, in the New York Times, captured the essence of the Côte des Bar’s slightly rugged appeal, especially for wine lovers who favor a concrete sense of place in their Champagnes. “Rather than the hushed pop of the cork and the silken rush of bubbles,” he wrote, “these Champagnes suggest soil on the boots.”