1983 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 93.8 points

• Options

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

  12/31/2023 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  20 Top Wines of the 1983 Vintage: Champagne Showdown: All three bottles showed better than expected. Dom Perignon wins with 97pts - a symphony of stature, purity, and layered complexity. Its vibrant mix of fresh citrus and fruit elegantly intertwines with mature notes of burnt sugar and honey, all supported by a vivid acid line and a mineral backbone adding extra dimension. This DP is poised for further evolution over the next decade. Comtes de Champagne, at 95pts, impresses with its signature blend of brioche and butter, harmonizing with both fresh and baked fruit nuances, despite a bouquet tinged with cardboard hints. Cristal, scoring 93pts, initially reveals its age through oxidation, yet remarkably rejuvenates with air, gaining freshness, depth, and a captivating saline spine.
  
  Decanting: Good from the go. No extensive decanting needed.

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

• Options

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

  11/25/2023 - G_H wrote: 95 Points

  40 years on: A global 1983 retrospective: Walnuts, yeast dough, brioche, good balance and still some freshness on the palate with a nice sweetness

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

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View sirpat00's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/25/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points

  1983 vintage horizontal with >20 wines, mostly from Bordeaux. Key observations: 1/ Acceptable vintage for Champagne with DP over-delivering, 2/ Laville Haut Brion is a masterpiece among the whites, 3/ Bordeaux is going strong at 40 years of age with stand-outs Latour and Margaux. 4/ No need to chase any Napa’s from the vintage, 5/ off-piste Italians kept up impressively with Soldera an undisputed medalist.
  
  Tasting note:
  Nice aging notes of Sherry and fine oxidative aromas give away the age. Fruit of baked pear, wax and minor notes of almond, the latter very consistent with the 2012 tasted just before. Pure Cognac on the palate with still fresh acidity. Beautiful palate, even if the nose could do with more expression. This could not quite keep up with an outstanding Dom Pérignon ’83.

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

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Alex G.'s profile
  • Report Issue

  12/20/2019 - Alex G. Likes this wine:

  Holiday Burgundy Lunch (Scottsdale, AZ): Dark color but ample fruit, honeyed pears and mineral. Still bubbles in this beauty. A textbook example of mature Champagne. At peak, drink up!

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

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Alex G.'s profile
  • Report Issue

  2/22/2019 - Alex G. Likes this wine:

  Dark gold color, brioche, ripe honey, pear on the attack, some maderized note on finish. Lovely.

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

View all 7 Community Tasting Notes

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.