2006 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 6x75cl

Taittinger

Case Format: 75cl

Max score: 98

Drink To: 2025-2046

Regarded as the jewel in Taittinger's crown, Comtes de Champagne is only produced when the harvest is of exceptional quality. It epitomises the quintessential House style and is composed exclusively of Chardonnay grown in the top five Grand Cru villages of the Côte des Blancs.
£540.00 IN BOND

Available for Immediate Delivery

CRITIC REVIEWS

98
Antonio Galloni

The 2006 Comtes de Champagne is in a great spot. Baked apple tart, spice, chamomile, marzipan, slate and chalk confer tremendous vibrancy and power throughout. Bright saline notes play off the natural exuberance of the year. The 2006 was spectacular on release. It is all that today, too.

96
Stephan Reinhardt

"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 Cote 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)."

18
JancisRobinson.com

Ingredients from 'top Grands Crus' including Avize, Chouilly, Cramant, Mesnil-sur-Oger and Oger. Warm summer and a harvest that began on 7 September in mild, damp conditions. A lovely bottle drinking beautifully now. Tight bead, neat composition, lemon-flavoured and creamy-textured. Still very fresh indeed for an 18-year-old wine. (JR)

DELIVERY INFORMATION

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COUNTRY

France

REGION

Champagne

SUB REGION

Champagne Blanc de Blancs

VINTAGE

2006

COLOUR

White

CASE FORMAT

6x75cl

AVAILABILITY

IMMEDIATE

MAX CRITIC SCORE

98

DRINK TO

2025-2046

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