2006 Taittinger Brut Comtés de Champagne Blanc de Blancs
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Tasting notes
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.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
John Gilman, View From The Cellar
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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)
This is also is aromatically quite restrained with notably cool and elegant aromas that speak of citrus, floral, yeast and green apple nuances. The wonderfully refined mouthfeel is enhanced by the beautifully fine effervescence that shapes the medium weight flavors that culminate in crisp, intense and gorgeously complex and persistent finish that is borderline off-dry. This is not only a terrific effort but it's an amazingly good 2006 as there are no exotic hints plus it offers exceptionally good verve. For my taste, this has arrived at its peak though there is absolutely no rush to drink up.
Very neat and complete with tightly laced texture and probably at peak now. Still very refreshing and just more complex rather than old. (JR)
About the producer
Champagne Taittinger is one of the region’s leading Grande Marque Champagne houses and also one of the largest, when it comes to vineyard ownership. It is also the producer behind one of the region’s best loved vintage Blanc de Blancs: Comtes de Champagne.