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Buy Online97/100 James Suckling (2011 Vintage)
"A firm, fresh Comtes with a tight and composed palate. It’s full-bodied with a racy mid-palate. Long and persistent. Very structured with phenolics and acidity. Minerally. Floral, too. Refreshing and energetic."
94/100 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (2011 Vintage)
"After the tightly coiled, hyper-concentrated 2008, Taittinger's 2011 Brut Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne represents a more immediate, charming rendition of this cuvée. Bursting from the glass with aromas of orchard and stone fruit mingled with notions of pastry cream, blanched almonds and mandarin, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and fleshy, with a soft and enveloping profile, lively acids and a pretty pinpoint mousse. Readers might think of the 2011 as a somewhat less reductive and less intense stylistic sibling of the 2006, and as it takes on more toasty complexity with bottle age, it will make for immensely seductive drinking."
Reviews for the 2008 vintage below…
98+/100 Antonio Galloni, Vinous, August 2020 (2008 Vintage)
"Taittinger’s 2008 Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is simply breathtaking. I have tasted it many times over the years in various trial disgorgements and it has never been anything less than compelling. The final, finished wine captures all of that potential. Bright, focused and wonderfully deep, Comtes is a fabulous example of a vintage that expresses so much energy but with real fruit intensity, the signatures that distinguish it from other vintages (1996 comes to mind) that were similarly taut, but more austere in the early going. Although the 2008 impresses right out of the gate, it only really starts to open up with several hours of air. The 2008 Comtes represents the purest essence of the Côtes des Blancs in a great, historic vintage. Readers who can find the 2008 should not hesitate, as it is a truly brilliant epic Champagne that no one who loves the very best in Champagne will want to be without."
97/100 & Cellar Selection, Wine Enthusiast, July 2019 (2008 Vintage)
"Coming entirely from Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte des Blancs, the new release of this famous Champagne is from a top vintage year. The wine is at perfect maturity, poised between crisp, taut minerality and wonderful toastiness. It is intense, beautifully clear and limpid, a great Champagne. It is ready to drink now and for many years to come."
96/100 Jamie Goode, September 2020 (2018 Vintage)
"This is the long-awaited 2008 vintage of this, one of the top prestige cuvées in Champagne. It’s a really lovely wine, with almost perfect balance and harmony. There’s a core of lemony fruit, with a precise, linear character, which is complemented by some bready, slightly toasty richness. As well as the lemon, there’s some candied citrus fruit, and also a touch of apricot and nectarine richness, adding a fruity flourish. And in the mix also, we have a hint of vanilla and white pepper. There’s definitely some richness here, making the wine accessible, and also a hint of sweetness, but the linear citrus fruit core is really lovely. The recent releases of Comtes have all been lovely, but this is even better. Superb."
5 Stars & 95/100 Anthony Rose, The Real Review (2008 Vintage)
"A pale golden sparkling wine, whose steady bead of tiny bubbles throws up subtly restrained lemon toast and praline notes in the aroma. In the mouth, the wine is as yet tight, linear and intense, gradually opening out into a luxurious silkiness of mousse whose citrusy flavours are supported by a high tensile spine, providing youthful structure which itself underpins a zesty dry, mouthwateringly saline finish. Still tight and youthful, this is a bit of a shy adolescent at this stage, but it exudes class nonetheless and needs a decade or even longer for its full qualities to unfurl. Drink 2021 – 2035."
94/100 Decanter, April 2020 (2008 Vintage)
"Lemon to gold ingot, bright and welcoming, an impression enhanced by a fabulous nose of sherbet, brioche, lemon posset and Mirabelle plum. All things nice. The palate is gently luxurious, its sophistication rippling with nuance rather than sheer vulgar power, yellow fruits, the gentlest hints of honey, crushed chalk and then a silky citric grip. In these rather claustrophobic times, the wine carries us along the Corniche in an open-top car, vintage naturally enough, the azure backdrop at its purest on this, the finest of Spring mornings."
