Comte
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Caviar, pan-seared scallops, roasted turbot
✨ Technical Specifications
Taittinger's prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, is a legendary expression of Chardonnay, first created in the 1952 vintage to honor the medieval Counts of Champagne. According to local lore, Count Thibaud IV brought back the legendary ancestor of the Chardonnay grape from the Crusades. Crafted exclusively from 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay vineyards in the Côte des Blancs—including Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger, and Oger—this wine represents the pinnacle of elegance. Only the first-press juice is used, and a small portion of the blend is matured in oak casks to add subtle complexity. The wine then undergoes a slow, patient maturation for up to a decade deep within the house's UNESCO-listed Gallo-Roman chalk cellars before disgorgement, resulting in a masterpiece of tension, mineral precision, and creamy richness.
🍾 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%