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 viticultural lineage to 1734 through the historic house of Forest-Fourneaux, Champagne Taittinger was formally inaugurated under the family name in the 1930s by Pierre Taittinger after acquiring the Château de la Marquetterie. Today, the maison remains an independent, family-led enterprise directed by Vitalie Taittinger with cellar master Alexandre Ponnavoy. Taittinger manages approximately 288 hectares of sustainably farmed vineyards, certified under Haute Valeur Environnementale (HVE) and Viticulture Durable en Champagne (VDC), spanning premier terroirs across the Côte des Blancs, Montagne de Reims, and the Marne Valley. Here, pure Cretaceous chalk soils, gentle slopes, and a marginal semi-continental climate impart hallmark tension and refined minerality. Taittinger's winemaking philosophy champions a distinctively high proportion of Chardonnay, yielding cuvées of crystalline precision, airy floral lift, and structural grace. Prolonged aging takes place inside subterranean 4th-century Gallo-Roman chalk crayères beneath the historic Saint-Nicaise abbey ruins, culminating in iconic prestige expressions like the 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay 100%
🍷 ABV
12.5%