2011 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Brut Rosé, Champagne, France 0,75lt.
2011 vintage "Comtes Rosé is a rare beauty, made only in exceptional years, and representing power x grace. This uses GC chardonnay from Côtes des Blancs with 15% red wine from Bouzy. Once in bottle this spent 10 years sur lattes before disgorge in 2022. Deeper in hue, this smoulders with burnished cherry, savoury strawberry, blood orange peel, smoked stones, and toasted bread. The structural, focused palate is scented with dried herbs, and finishes with lingering flake salts. Treve Ring)." Gismondi on Wine.
94 POINTS GISMONDI ON WINE
96 POINTS WINE ENTHUSIAST
94 WINE SPECTATOR
The Comtes Rosé draws nobility from its long ageing in the UNESCO status cellars.
During this time, this wine with pure and demanding composition, refines to achieve a silky and tasty balance, until it becomes totally melted into a multitude of particles of small red berries, lightly roasted. A marvel that knows how to perfectly marry with a singular dish like a pigeon still pink, thanks to its balance between freshness and structure.
Comtes de Champagne Rosé is only produced when the qualitative criteria exist to faithfully preserve the cuvee’s signature style. Comprised of 30% Chardonnay Grands Crus from the most prestigious Côte des Blancs terroirs combined with 70% Pinot Noir sourced from the Montagne de Reims Grands Crus, this blend is enhanced with 15% red wine from Bouzy Pinots, whose somewhat long pre-maceration fermentation ensures a superb tannic structure with fruit- forward aromas of red and black berries. Before being exposed to light, Comtes de Champagne Rosé will have undergone more than 10 years of ageing in the heart of the Saint-Nicaise chalk cellars dating from Gallo-Roman times; a maturation that guarantees the complexity of the wine’s aromas.
2011 vintage "Comtes Rosé is a rare beauty, made only in exceptional years, and representing power x grace. This uses GC chardonnay from Côtes des Blancs with 15% red wine from Bouzy. Once in bottle this spent 10 years sur lattes before disgorge in 2022. Deeper in hue, this smoulders with burnished cherry, savoury strawberry, blood orange peel, smoked stones, and toasted bread. The structural, focused palate is scented with dried herbs, and finishes with lingering flake salts. Treve Ring)." Gismondi on Wine.
94 POINTS GISMONDI ON WINE
96 POINTS WINE ENTHUSIAST
94 WINE SPECTATOR
The Comtes Rosé draws nobility from its long ageing in the UNESCO status cellars.
During this time, this wine with pure and demanding composition, refines to achieve a silky and tasty balance, until it becomes totally melted into a multitude of particles of small red berries, lightly roasted. A marvel that knows how to perfectly marry with a singular dish like a pigeon still pink, thanks to its balance between freshness and structure.
Comtes de Champagne Rosé is only produced when the qualitative criteria exist to faithfully preserve the cuvee’s signature style. Comprised of 30% Chardonnay Grands Crus from the most prestigious Côte des Blancs terroirs combined with 70% Pinot Noir sourced from the Montagne de Reims Grands Crus, this blend is enhanced with 15% red wine from Bouzy Pinots, whose somewhat long pre-maceration fermentation ensures a superb tannic structure with fruit- forward aromas of red and black berries. Before being exposed to light, Comtes de Champagne Rosé will have undergone more than 10 years of ageing in the heart of the Saint-Nicaise chalk cellars dating from Gallo-Roman times; a maturation that guarantees the complexity of the wine’s aromas.