TAITTINGER

2005 Comtes de Champagne Brut

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Champagne
ABV 12%

Bright yellow. Vibrant pear and melon aromas are complicated by suggestions of ginger, brioche and smoky minerals. Dry, smoky and precise, offering intense orchard and pit fruit flavors that gain weight with aeration. A dusty mineral quality adds focus and lift to the long, penetrating, floral finish. There's a Burgundian thing going on here that's quite intriguing. Rating: 94 Josh Raynolds, www.vinousmedia.com (Dec 2014)


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A truly wonderful wine from the start but slow to develop in the glass this time. As usual, Taittinger suceeds very well in warm, acid-weak vintages, when neighbours' wines often appear flat and simplistic. Despite the fact that the acidity is not particularly accentuated here either, the vineyards' aromatic citrus fresh touch leaves a fresh, uplifting side to the creamy, fat smoothness. The finish is certainly chalky and elegant, but it raises to heavenly heights with a 1976-like butterscotch soft, warm, sweet flavoured embracing pillow. (One of Juhlins' top 20 prestige Champagnes.) Drinking range: 2014 - 2025 Rating: 97 Decanter Magazine (Oct 2014)

Pale gold hue with tight bubbles and a persistent cordon. Bouquet is youthful, light and delicate, with white fruit and chalky accent. Fresh yeast underlay. The wine is lovely, lemony and lively with concentrated fruit on the middle and back palate, and a touch of Thai spices, white pepper and brioche adding interest. Creamy-textured and lingering. Extremely inviting. Rating: Gold International Wine & Spirit Competition 2014 (Oct 2014)

Pale gold and most attractive on the nose with notes of citrus and putty but with admirable density on the palate and such brisk freshness without its tasting like jagged acidity. There is more than a nod to minerality. It tastes thoroughy modern somehow, in a good way. All the elements in this wine, which reminds me a little of the 1995, are beautifully integrated and yield a subtle, powerful finish - yet I'm sure it has a pretty glorious life ahead of it. (Tasted 18 Sep 2013). Drink: 2013 to 2020 Rating: 18.5/20 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jun 2014)

Taittinger

The Taittinger family are famous producers of champagne. Headed by Claude Taittinger. The Group is ranked in the top 250 businesses in France. Its diversified holdings included Champagne Taittinger, Societé du Louvre and Concorde Hotels, whose flagship is the famed Hotel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

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