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2008 Champagne Taittinger, Comtes de Champagne Rosé, Brut
- Rosé
- Dry
- Full Bodied
Ready - at best
(Drink 2017 - 2035)
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 18/20
- Antonio Galloni
- 93/100
- William Kelley
- 96/100
- Yohan Castaing
- 97/100
- James Suckling
- 99/100
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Description
Full bottle 1,708 g.
Mid-orangey pink, it is fully developed and beautifully aged, with notes of almonds and bitter oranges. A really fine champagne with delicacy and pungent intrigue. A real treat and incredibly persistent. It is a sore-throat wine.
Drink 2023 - 2033
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (August 2024)
Colour Rosé
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Alcohol % 12.5%
Maturity Ready - at best
(2017 - 2035)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Champagne Taittinger
Critics reviews
Jancis Robinson MW 18/20
Full bottle 1,708 g.
Mid-orangey pink, it is fully developed and beautifully aged, with notes of almonds and bitter oranges. A really fine champagne with delicacy and pungent intrigue. A real treat and incredibly persistent. It is a sore-throat wine.
Drink 2023 - 2033
Antonio Galloni 93/100
The 2008 Comtes de Champagne Rosé is bright, steely and finely chiselled right out of the gate. It shows quite a bit of energy and also more overall tension than the Blanc today. It will be interesting to see how the 2008 ages, and if the fruit ever emerges. I suspect the 2008 will always remain a rather nervous Rosé, even if it is quite striking today. Crushed red berry fruit, mint, chalk and white pepper build into a finish supported by bright, salivating acids and plenty of steely minerality.
Drink 2022 - 2038
William Kelley 96/100
Taittinger's 2008 Brut Comtes de Champagne Rosé, which arrives on the market this year, has unwound considerably since I last tasted it. Offering up inviting aromas of red berries, plums, sweet spices, orange rind and freshly baked bread, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and vinous, with an ample core of fruit, lively acids and an elegant pinpoint mousse.
As I wrote in 2019, Taittinger is using more Pinot Noir and opting for more extended sur lattes maturation for this bottling. The result is that Comtes Rosé is becoming a more gastronomic Champagne. Deceptively charming as this 2008 is today, I suspect it will tighten up with a bit of age on the cork.
Drink 2021 - 2035
Yohan Castaing 97/100
The proportion of Pinot Noir in Comtes de Champagne Rosé has tended to increase in recent years, as evidenced by this 2008 vintage, which is almost 70% Pinot Noir. There is 15% red wine, and the rest is Chardonnay. With notes of spices, black cherry, morello cherry and black fruit, the bouquet is impressively complex and delicious. On the palate, the vinous texture, fine bubbles, depth and complexity allow for a long, chalky, chiselled finish. This is a gastronomic Champagne rosé with great ageing potential.
Drink 2021 - 2040
James Suckling 99/100
Deep colour of bronze with orange-peel and golden hues. Strawberry, earth, bark and orange with peach-pie aromas. Full-bodied and layered with lots of phenolics that give this Champagne and velvety and rich texture. It goes deep down. Open and beautiful. Exotic and flamboyant. So fresh and vivid. Just jumps out of the glass. So much energy.
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