Viera da Silva
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Typically best enjoyed 10 to 25 years from the vintage release, though well-cellared bottles can continue to evolve beautifully for decades.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted pheasant, aged Comté cheese
✨ wine.spec_sheet
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.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Established in 1932 when Pierre Taittinger acquired the historic Forest-Fourneaux house founded in 1734, Champagne Taittinger is one of the few remaining family-owned and operated Champagne houses based in Reims, France. The house is celebrated for its extensive Gallo-Roman chalk cellars, known as crayères, which provide the perfect aging conditions for their elegant, Chardonnay-dominant cuvées. Taittinger's signature style is defined by lightness, finesse, and mineral precision, epitomized by their legendary prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, alongside their classic Brut Réserve and the artistic Taittinger Collection.