Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV BFCM21ALL Matusalem Oloroso Sherry casks

Matusalem Oloroso Sherry casks

with notes of baked apple

followed by notes of warm spices and walnuts

6 months of aging

and sweet licorice root

Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV BFCM21ALL Matusalem Oloroso Sherry casksMost 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