Viera da Silva
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted pheasant, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Taittinger Collection was conceived in the late 1970s by Claude Taittinger, who sought to marry the fine art of winemaking with contemporary visual art. For the 1983 vintage, the house commissioned the celebrated Portuguese-French abstractionist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Her signature style, characterized by intricate, labyrinthine patterns, grid-like structures, and a sense of infinite depth, gracefully wraps the bottle, mirroring the complex, structured, and effervescent nature of the Champagne within. The wine itself is a prestigious vintage Brut, crafted only in exceptional years from Grand and Premier Cru vineyards. It undergoes extensive cellar aging in Taittinger's historic Gallo-Roman chalk crayères, allowing it to develop a magnificent harmony 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 50%, Pinot Noir 50%
🍷 ABV
12%