Hans Hartung
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted poultry, creamy mushroom risotto, aged Parmigiano-Reggiano
✨ Technical Specifications
The Taittinger Collection represents a prestigious marriage of fine art and exceptional winemaking, conceived by Claude Taittinger in 1983. For the 1986 vintage, released in 1992, the house commissioned the celebrated German-French abstract painter Hans Hartung. A pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction, Hartung designed a striking, dark, textured bottle wrap that mirrors his signature energetic brushstrokes and gestural lines. Inside this artistic vessel is Taittinger's vintage Champagne from the 1986 harvest, crafted from a select blend of Grand and Premier Cru vineyards. Aged for several years in the house's historic Gallo-Roman chalk cellars, this cuvée offers a harmonious convergence of mid-20th-century avant-garde art and traditional Champagne craftsmanship, characterized by its maturity, complex autolytic notes, and refined effervescence.
🍾 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 50%, Pinot Noir 50%
🍷 ABV
12%