2007 Comtes de Champagne Grands Crus · Blanc de Blancs in gift packaging

Taittinger's Comtes Blanc de Blancs 2007 shows the classic signature of its house, vintage-driven, elegant and complex, with impressive freshness, enchanting now, yet with enough potential for long maturation in the bottle.

Color and Perlage:
shiny gold with greenish reflections and the finest, continuously rising bubbles

Scent:
fragrant notes of white flowers, mineral hints, and opulent aromas of Anjou pears and sultanas merge on the nose, underpinned by a hint of anise and smoky notes

Taste:
on the palate lively, full-bodied, the aromas first recall ripe lemons with fine salty-mineral notes, then increasingly complex with a perfect balance of racy freshness, ripeness, and fullness, finely-structured, taut right up to the long finish with fresh acidity and fine roasted-nutty notes and hints of salted butter

Info:
Following 2004, 2005, and 2006, the year 2007 also delivered an excellent Comtes de Champagne. Highly elegant, classic, complex, sophisticated, with fresh acidity and impressive potential. It could continue like this. However, the apparent regularity with which the Prestige Cuvée has been released in recent years will soon take a break. Clovis Taittinger, export manager of the house, told Decanter Magazine that conditions in 2009, 2010, and 2011 were not convincing, and accordingly, no Comtes de Champagne would be produced. A 2008 vintage will still be released. After that, however, a dry spell will begin. A good reason to try to get a few bottles of this limited treasure.

 
Only in great years does Taittinger transform the choicest Chardonnay grapes from the choicest vineyards and parcels in the five Grand Crus of the Côte des Blancs into a single-varietal vintage champagne of unique finesse: Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs, the noble Prestige Cuvée of the house. The family has always had a certain penchant for Chardonnay. And still does today. General Director Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger leaves no doubt about this: "We define ourselves as a Chardonnay house." Not only, but also and above all in champagne, the white grape represents the perfect balance of fragrant elegance and longevity and is at the same time a perfect ambassador of its origin, its vineyard, as well as its cellar, when it expresses the unmistakable elegance of the Taittinger house.

 
The first Comtes de Champagne was created by the brothers Claude and François Taittinger in the 1950s. The elegant Blanc de Blancs harmonized perfectly with the then genuinely new 'Nouvelle Cuisine' and its delicate, distinctly slender recipes. Refined, exquisite, and at the same time endowed with unique potential, Taittinger's Prestige Cuvée became the quintessence of the distinctive style of the Taittinger house, which remains unique to this day. Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs is only produced in years when winegrowers and cellar masters are equally convinced of the outstanding quality of their grapes and wines. The Chardonnay comes exclusively from the Grand Cru vineyards of the Côte des Blancs, only wines from the first pressing are used, and the champagne is matured for at least five, usually up to ten years, in the long, dark chalk cellars of the former Abbey of Saint-Nicaise, which now belong to the Taittinger winery in Reims.