Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2006

Professional Ratings

• 96 James Suckling
  This is settling into a deeper presence. It has a freshness that really appeals, along with Taittinger's signature toasty layer of autolysis, grilled nuts and praline. Plenty of flesh and weight on the palate. Acidity clasps ripe peach and mango fruits, finishing long, powerful and fine. Drink now.
• 96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  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 Côte de Blancs, the concentration of perfectly ripe Chardonnay and the suppleness of 2006. This has impeccable balance paired with high tension.

• 95 Wine Enthusiast
  Taittinger's prestige cuvee epitomizes the Chardonnay predilection of this producer. This now-mature bottling is elegant and very stylish. Toast and a soft texture combine with great complexity to reveal a wine that is poised and ready to drink. But with the acidity in the background, it could still age, so drink now and until 2022. Cellar Selection.
• 95 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
  The 2006 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne is simply stunning. Complex and intricate, the wine exhibits a seamless integration of ripe fruit, dried citrus and savory earth. Though it is drinking pretty well now, another six to ten years would add additional layers of complexity and pleasure. (Tasted: August 26, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
• 94 Wine Spectator
  A vivacious Champagne, with fine integration of the racy acidity and chalky bead, rich mineral character and creamy palate of glazed apricot, ground anise, biscuit and passion fruit flavors. Offers a firm, focused finish. Drink now through 2030.
• 92 Connoisseurs' Guide
  Very rich and toasty with suggestions of soy and roasted Meyer lemons making the early going and supported nicely by chalky and yeasty notes, this wine is fairly expressive and holds little back in its pursuit of a bolder style for Blanc de Blancs. Its mousse is full, foamy and somewhat pushy and is very much in keeping with the direction of the wine, yet the underlying flavor profile claims both richness and expected austerity.