Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, seared scallops, or roasted turbot with a light butter sauce.
✨ Technical Specifications
First created in the legendary 1952 vintage, Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs is the ultimate expression of Taittinger's house style, paying homage to the Counts of Champagne, particularly Thibaud IV, who legend says brought the ancestor of Chardonnay back from the Crusades. This prestige cuvée is crafted exclusively from 100% Grand Cru Chardonnay grapes harvested from the prestigious soils of the Côte des Blancs—specifically the villages of Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger, and Oger. To achieve its sublime complexity, only the first-press juice is used, and a small portion of the blend is aged in oak casks to impart subtle toasted notes. The wine then undergoes a slow, patient maturation of up to a decade deep within the UNESCO-protected, Gallo-Roman chalk cellars beneath the Abbey of Saint-Nicaise in Reims. The result is a masterpiece of tension, mineral precision, and creamy texture, boasting notes of white flowers, brioche, and candied citrus.
🍾 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%