Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Rosé 2011
2011 was a very tricky vintage in Champagne, but I really liked the Comtes Blanc de Blanc, and here’s the newly released Rosé. It’s really good too.
Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Rosé 2011 France
12.5% alcohol. This is a full coral pink colour. The remarkable thing about this prestige cuvée from Taittinger in 2011 is that it is sweet and savoury at the same time. With 14% red wine in the base wine blend, there’s some structure here, but there’s also a sleek core of sweet strawberry and cherry fruit with a hint of aniseed and some stewed plums, as well as fine dried herb notes and some dusty tannins in the background. There’s some clove and pepper, and these integrate really nicely into the sweet fruit. With some rhubarb notes and sour cherry on the finish, this is really vinous, and superbly gastronomic. There’s also a real sense of sweetness to the fruit. 95/100
