Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Champagne, 2008, 75cl

6 x 75cl

11.100,00 kr

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Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Champagne, 2008, 75cl

11.100,00 kr

1.850,00 kr each

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The 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is showing beautifully out of the gates, offering up demonstrative aromas of sweet golden orchard fruit, buttery croissants, peach and hazelnuts. Medium to full-bodied, pillowy and enveloping, it's a rich, textural, vinous Comtes somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant 2002. If it gains in tension and cut (as the 2002 did and as I suspect the 2012 will) with more time on cork , it will make this initial rating seem conservative.

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Wine: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Champagne, 2008, 75cl

Type: Champagne

Size: 75 cl

Manufacturer: Taittinger

Country: France

Region: Champagne

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Bottles per Box: 6

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98 /100

Taittinger's 2008 Brut Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is being released this year, and it will be worth a special effort to track down. I wrote in August 2019 that this is the finest Comtes de Champagne since the brilliant 2002, and this tasting confirmed that. Offering up a deep and complex bouquet of citrus oil, crisp orchard fruit, warm brioche, crushed chalk, blanched almonds and smoke, it's full-bodied and incisive, with excellent concentration, racy acids and a long, searingly chalky finish. While this is already immensely impressive out of the gates, this 2008 is clearly built for the long haul, and three decades' longevity won't be a challenge.

Robert Parker wine advocate

97 /100

Coming entirely from Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte des Blancs, the new release of this famous Champagne is from a top vintage year. The wine is at perfect maturity, poised between crisp, taut minerality and wonderful toastiness. It is intense, beautifully clear and limpid, a great Champagne. It is ready to drink now and for many years to come. Roger Voss

Wine Enthusiast

98 /100

It is a champagne that I have tasted several times since 2013, before being officially released early in 2021. It has been interesting to follow as it has developed on its lees; the earliest iteration was buried under a mountain of fruit esters and acidity while slowly revealing itself over the years with successive trial disgorgements. An utterly thrilling Champagne. Full of taut energy that delivers immediacy and potential at the same time. The autolytic fatness is slowly receding, revealing a wine precision and depth—aromas of pear and preserved lemons dominate the bouquet, although a delicate toastiness is building. Impeccably balanced, the complexity is endless; each successive sniff of the glass reveals yet another dimension of this incredible Champagne. Did I mention the extraordinary length? It is a legend and the best Comtes de Champagne I have ever tasted (going back to the early 1960's). Alcohol 12.50%. Tasted Dec 2022.

Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy

About the grape

Chardonnay

Chardonnay er den ubestridte stjerne blandt hvidvinsdruer. Dyrket overalt fra Bourgogne til Californien, Australien til Sydafrika – den sætter sit præg på fineste hvidvine verden over. Som drue er Chardonnay relativt neutral og regnes ikke som en aromatisk varietet. Det er også derfor, at den kaldes "vinmakerens drue" – det er i kælderen, at dens karakter formes. Valg af gæring, lagring på egetræ og andre teknikker skaber det enorme spektrum af stilarter.

Serving

Chardonnays alsidighed betyder, at serveringstemperaturen varierer efter stil.

Temperatur: Mellem 8-12°C

- Lette, uoaked Chardonnay (Chablis, mineralske vine): 8-10°C – kold nok til at fremhæve friskhed og syre
- Fyldige, oaked Chardonnay (Bourgogne, New World): 10-12°C – lidt varmere for at frigive cremede, smørrede aromaer

Tag vinen ud af køleskabet 10-15 minutter før servering, hvis den er for kold. For kolde vine dæmper aromaerne.

Dekantning: Sjældent nødvendig

Hvidvin dekanteres sjældent, men ældre Bourgogne med kompleksitet kan have gavn af lidt luft. Hæld vinen i en karaffel 15-20 minutter før servering for at åbne aromaerne.

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