Comte Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, seared wild salmon, red berry tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Taittinger's Comtes de Champagne Rosé is a legendary prestige cuvée that pays homage to the Counts of Champagne, particularly Thibaud IV, who legend says brought the ancestor of Chardonnay back from the Crusades. Produced only in exceptional vintage years, this rare rosé is crafted using Grand Cru grapes, combining the finesse of Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs with the structure of Pinot Noir from the Montagne de Reims. A small percentage of Pinot Noir is vinified as still red wine from the acclaimed terroirs of Bouzy to impart its celebrated deep copper-pink hue and complex red fruit character. The wine undergoes extensive aging—often up to a decade—deep within the house's historic, UNESCO-classified Gallo-Roman chalk cellars (crayères), resulting in a Champagne of sublime complexity, silky texture, and vibrant mineral precision.
🍾 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
Pinot Noir 70%, Chardonnay 30%
🍷 ABV
12.5%