Taittinger

Taittinger, Rosé, Comte de Champagne, 2011

Name: Taittinger, Rosé, Comte de Champagne
Brand: Taittinger
Price: 1399.93 GBP

94/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

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2011
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£1,399.93

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Having returned to family hands in 2006, Taittenger continues to go from strength to strength. Their tête de cuvée rosé is adored by those in the know for its hallmark steely finesse, provided by their phenomenal Chardonnay, overlaid and blended with rich and luxuriant red berry fruit from Muenier and Pinot Noir. All the grapes are drawn from their best Grand Cru vineyards in the Côtes des Blancs and Montagne de Reims. The addition of still red wine imparts a more vibrant colour and a profound, red fruit character. This exuberant and joyful Comtes is instantly appealing. Vibrant strawberry, fresh raspberry, ripe red cherry and a touch of mandarin drive this fruit centric Champagne. However, there is plenty of complexity and nuance with notes of Crème Patissiere, cinnamon and vanilla spice on the finish. 2011 may remain in the shadow of the lauded 2008 and 2012, but we feel this accessible vintage will provide more immediate drinking pleasure.

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Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

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Critic Reviews

94/100

Yohan Castaing,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Disgorged in October 2022, the 2011 Brut Comtes de Champagne Rose is a blend of 40% Chardonnay and 60% Pinot Noir, including fully 14% of red wine that lends it notable depth of color this year. Evoking aromas of cherries, buttery pastry, raspberries and tangerine, with an attractive minty top note, the bouquet is complex and incipiently spicy. Medium to full-bodied, layered and vinous, with chalky structuring extract, it concludes with a long, sapid finish. The limitations of the vintage mean that this is a giving, rather open-knit Comtes Rose, but it is nevertheless a great effort in a challenging year and exhibits none of the herbaceous qualities that mar some of the wines produced in this year. Drink it now and over the next decade.

drinking window 2012 - 2045

date of review 06/2023

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.