World Cup Brut Reserve
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, roasted chicken, triple-cream cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Taittinger's World Cup Brut Réserve is a celebratory, limited-edition presentation of the house's signature non-vintage Champagne, crafted to mark their historic partnership as the official Champagne of the FIFA World Cup. Inside the specially designed collector's bottle lies the classic Brut Réserve, a masterclass in Chardonnay-led elegance. Sourced from over 35 different crus and incorporating a significant proportion of reserve wines to ensure consistency, this cuvée undergoes three to four years of cellar aging in Taittinger's historic Gallo-Roman chalk crayères. This extended maturation imparts a beautiful complexity, fine bubbles, and a creamy texture, while retaining the bright, youthful vivacity and mineral precision that defines the house style.
🍾 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 40%, Pinot Noir 35%, Pinot Meunier 25%
🍷 ABV
12.5%