2004 Champagne Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne, Blanc de Blancs, Brut chambolle-musigny this seems fuller and sweeter

this seems fuller and sweeter than the 2009 – very punchy

This feels like a mountain wine

Classic Montée de Tonnerre aromas of lemon ice

It has medium density on the palate

Burghound (Apr 2019)

2004 Champagne Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne, Blanc de Blancs, Brut chambolle-musigny this seems fuller and sweeterLes Comtes is one of the greatest of all Chardonnay Champagnes, its fruit sourced from the finest Grand Cru sites of the Cte des Blancs. Blue chip provenance includes the villages of Avize, le Mesnil sur Oger, and Cramant; it is the best of the best. Or, doubly appropriate given its luxuriant gustatory profile; la crme de la crme. 5% of the wine is aged in wood before spring bottling and the ensuing lengthy somnolence wherein the alchemical process of