Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] campaign-feature Sustainable farming yields a wine

Sustainable farming yields a wine that is simultaneously fresh and firm

natural caramel extracts give the typical red color

Caroline Morey

The flavors drive towards a rising crescendo of black cherry and black currant fruit with melting tannins and prominent mineral acidity

Serve it cool rather than cold

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] campaign-feature Sustainable farming yields a wineComtes de Champagne is Taittinger's flagship, and it only gets made in vintages the house actually believes in. It is 100% Chardonnay from grand cru villages of the Cote des Blancs, Avize and Cramant and Chouilly and Oger and Le Mesnil sur Oger, and only the first press makes the cut. It then sits for close to a decade in the chalk cellars under Reims, quarried by the Gallo Romans and later put to use by the monks of the Saint Nicaise abbey. What