Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] campaign-feature Built to drink now or

Built to drink now or cellar for a decade-plus

natural caramel extracts give the typical red color

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grainy notes that reminds one of a picnic in a wheatfield

Serve it cool rather than cold

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] campaign-feature Built to drink now orComtes 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