1982 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  1/24/2018 - Nanda wrote: 94 Points

  One Bottle Dinner at S.K.Y. (Chicago, IL): Golden rose color. Powerful and voluminous nose of toffee and mature white fruit. The palate has cider, caramel and mineral. Impressive freshness and liveliness in the body. I prefer my Champagne on the younger side, but no doubt this is excellent and interesting.

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  1/24/2018 - psmith wrote: 96 Points

  I thought this was spectacular and in a great place. It's earthy and rich, with flavors that certainly tend much more towards mature, but there's a phenomenal citricity that keeps it very energetic and lifted. This, and sufficient fine mousse, keeps it from tipping over into 'old' territory, and with time it further integrates and gains in depth. I wish I had more of this, and if I did I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get through them.

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  1/24/2018 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  Dinner at S.K.Y. (Chicago, IL): An outstanding bottle of champagne. The nose is nutty and a bit apple cidery, and definitely shows its age. But I'm not saying that this tastes old; in fact, it's still incredibly vibrant with a serious amount of effervescence. The palate is concentrated, with a lot of the same browned apple and nutty tones, but the acidity is not that of old wine. There's a vibrancy and aliveness here that belies the developed secondary flavours.

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  8/30/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote:

  Wines of Good Hope: Summer 2017; 7/29/2017-9/14/2017 (River's Inlet, British Columbia): Orange zest, dried fig, somewhat oxidative but still lively, fresh, and deep aromas and flavours. Savoury palate with caramel and trace smoke. Salinity, like salted caramel. Great acidity too. Consistent with the last bottle. Decidedly more developed than the '90 alongside which is always terrific.

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  3/24/2017 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 92 Points

  Big nose of salted caramel, savory, tertiary but very delicious. Think dulce de lece or salted caramel ice cream. Very vibrant on the palate with strong yellow apple. Like a sugary granola batch, toasted grains with a lot of frosting. Dying effervescence though. A very proper and mature champagne.

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