Comte Blanc de Blancs
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, seared scallops, roasted turbot with butter sauce
✨ Technical Specifications
Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs is the pinnacle of Taittinger's art, first created in the 1952 vintage to honor the legendary Counts of Champagne—particularly Thibaud IV, who, according to folklore, brought the ancestor of the Chardonnay grape back from the Crusades. This exceptional prestige cuvée is crafted exclusively from 100% Chardonnay sourced from the most prestigious Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs: Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger, and Oger. Only the first press is used to ensure absolute purity. A tiny portion of the blend is matured in oak casks to impart subtle toasted nuances. The wine then undergoes a slow, patient maturation of up to a decade in the UNESCO-protected, 4th-century Gallo-Roman chalk cellars beneath the Saint-Nicaise Abbey in Reims, resulting in a masterpiece of tension, mineral precision, and creamy complexity.
🍾 About the Producer
Tracing its foundations back to 1734 when the original house was established by Jacques Fourneaux, Champagne Taittinger took its modern identity in 1932 under the visionary leadership of Pierre Taittinger. Headquartered in Reims within the historic Champagne region of France, the family-owned house matures its finest cuvées inside UNESCO-listed Gallo-Roman chalk caves beneath the ancient Abbey of Saint-Nicaise. Taittinger is distinguished by its defining reliance on Chardonnay, crafting champagnes celebrated for their elegance, minerality, and delicate aromatics. The house's supreme expression is the iconic Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, a benchmark vintage champagne produced exclusively from top Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte des Blancs.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Chardonnay 100%
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5%