2006 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs
The Wine Advocate
RP 96
Reviewed by:Stephan Reinhardt
Release Price:$215.99
Drink Date:2020 - 2034
Tasted almost two years after disgorgement, the 2006 Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs shows a beautiful golden-citrus color and opens with a fascinating intense, floral, slightly reductive nose that develops enormously in the glass, offering lemon and lemon confit aromas along with flinty notes of crushed chalk and the iodine flavors of the Atlantic Ocean. This is an utterly complex and promising bouquet! The palate is terribly fresh but also rich, lush and intense, with the purity of the finest wines of the Côte de Blancs, the concentration of perfectly ripe Chardonnay and the suppleness of 2006. This has impeccable balance paired with high tension. The wine is very tight and still seems to be on its way right now. Although there is a first hint of aromatic ripeness, this should be a great Comtes de Champagne in a couple of years. The finish is tensioned, concentrated and mineral but keeps its talents in an almost bursting bubble. Disgorged September 2016; tasted May 2018 (lot L6316UM13600).
2014 Taittinger Brut Millesime
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 18th Sep 2020
Source September 2020 Week 3, The Wine Advocate
Rating 92 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2035
The newly released 2014 Brut Millesime from Taittinger is showing very well, offering up aromas of white peach, green apple, nougat and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, bright and incisive, with a charming core of fruit and a delicate mousse, this is a pretty, expressive vintage for Taittinger. Sufficiently open and fruit-driven to be enjoyed, toasty complexity with come with a few years on cork.
NV Taittinger Brut Folies de la Marquetterie
Reviewed by William Kelley
Issue Date 24th Sep 2021
Source September 2021 Week 4, The Wine Advocate
Rating 94 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2038
The latest release of Taittinger's NV Brut Folies de la Marquetterie is showing superbly, bursting from the glass with aromas of fresh bread, crisp stone fruit, buttered toast, citrus oil and mirabelle plums. Full-bodied, vinous and fleshy, with an enveloping core of fruit, racy acids and a pillowy pinpoint mousse, it's a gourmand, concentrated wine with the substance to evolve with grace in the cellar.
2005 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne
Reviewed by Stephan Reinhardt
Issue Date 30th Nov 2014
Source Special Interim Issue Report, The Wine Advocate
Rating 92 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2014 - 2022
The 2005 Comtes de Champagne has a beautifully composed nose that is extremely cool, mineral and precise and attracts with highly elegant and discreet bright and fresh fruit aromas (white apples, lemons, grapefruits) along with chalk and hazelnut flavors and nougat. Full-bodied, lovely, pure and quite complex on the palate, this is a fresh, buoyant and firmly structured Comtesse with a persistent minerality and an impressive clarity and freshness. It is quite reduced at the moment and lacks, perhaps, complexity but there is a touch of sweetness and a good chance for further development.