Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV Grower Champagne cooked butter

cooked butter

A rich array of fresh fruit and spice aromas

on its own or in a kir with Burgundy crème de cassis

the Cote Chalonnaise quietly overdelivers

Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV Grower Champagne cooked butterMost big house non vintage Champagne leans on Pinot Noir. Taittinger goes the other way: roughly 40% Chardonnay in the blend, an unusually high share, and you can taste it in the wine's lift and cut. Pinot Noir and Meunier fill in the flesh. It rests close to four years on its lees in the chalk cellars beneath Reims, well beyond the legal minimum, which buys texture and a fine, persistent bead. The result is one of the more elegant house styles