The Drinks Business

Bollinger’s team is celebrating what they describe as an exceptional 2025 Champagne harvest, combining early ripening, fine balance and healthy yields. Managing director Charles-Armand de Belenet and vineyard director Gaël Vuille say it could well become a declared vintage.

The quality of the 2025 Champagne harvest is already being hailed as very high by the Champenois. At a presentation in Hide restaurant last month, Bollinger managing director Charles-Armand de Belenet and vineyard director Gaël Vuille both extolled its virtues.

“There were great hopes for it early in the growing season, with almost no frost or hail and very few disease issues after all the rain in 2024 and the severe ensuing mildew problems,” said de Belenet. “Happily the early promise materialised.”