1986 Taittinger Champagne Artist Collection Hans Hartung

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 89.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Sean Tay's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/7/2021 - Sean Tay wrote: 92 Points

  Hay, straw, herbal taste like; chicken essence, caramel. High acidity and sweet and the end of taste. Theres still slight bubble as you approach the first few sip but 30 min, its all gone.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View jhtswhiteley's profile
  • Report Issue

  12/26/2012 - jhtswhiteley Likes this wine: 87 Points

  26 December 2012. Ah – the bubbles! They were plentiful, although now moving like octagenarians! They clung to the glass, as if in their last minutes. They were! After half an hour, they had all but gone, reminding us that 26 years is really the maximum that any champagne can take. The colour was a transparent dark yellow ochre rather than brown, with a lot of bright light around it. The nose was a little disappointing, just lemons and plums, but tasting was quite complex, with spicy cloves, lemon, damsons and grass. After a short while, it kind of fell flat, almost as if it had fallen apart before our very eyes. Perhaps it had. It then had a sort of old ‘dry sherry’ tang about it. This had been great champagne, but was in decline now.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.