Comte Rose
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Typically best enjoyed 10 to 25 years from the vintage release, though exceptional vintages can age even longer.
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Roasted duck breast, seared wild salmon, red berry tart
✨ wine.spec_sheet
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.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Established in 1932 when Pierre Taittinger acquired the historic Forest-Fourneaux house founded in 1734, Champagne Taittinger is one of the few remaining family-owned and operated Champagne houses based in Reims, France. The house is celebrated for its extensive Gallo-Roman chalk cellars, known as crayères, which provide the perfect aging conditions for their elegant, Chardonnay-dominant cuvées. Taittinger's signature style is defined by lightness, finesse, and mineral precision, epitomized by their legendary prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, alongside their classic Brut Réserve and the artistic Taittinger Collection.