Corneille
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted poultry, seared scallops, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
This exceptional release is part of the prestigious Taittinger Collection, where fine art meets fine wine. Commissioned by Claude Taittinger, the 1982 vintage bottle was designed by the celebrated Dutch artist Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo), a co-founder of the avant-garde CoBrA movement. His signature vibrant, expressive style—characterized by bold colors and playful figures of birds and nature—wraps the bottle, reflecting the joyful spirit of the Champagne within. The wine itself is a rare vintage Brut, crafted only in exceptional years from a selection of Grand Cru vineyards. It undergoes extended cellar aging in Taittinger's historic Gallo-Roman chalk crayères, developing a complex profile of toasted brioche, ripe stone fruits, and refined 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
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
12-12.5%