1976 Taittinger Champagne Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut

Community Tasting Notes (27) Avg Score: 94.8 points

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  10/27/2023 - godx wrote: 93 Points

  From magnum. Excellent colour and good amount of bubbles for a wine of this age. Very mushroomy on the nose with hints of honey and brioche. There was also a lifted note (that I didn’t like) but it eventually blew off. The palate was amazingly fresh and lively but the flavour profile showed this wine’s 47 years with lots of secondary notes, earthy, more mushrooms, lemons and quite a long finish. A good bit of richness here and complexity. Not as good as a previous magnum (from the same source), but still very enjoyable.

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  3/5/2022 - Peech Likes this wine: 95 Points

  a little dusty at first, with vanilla, Chinese licorice, honey, and marmalade in the nose. Really lovely about 50 minutes after opening, and much more open a little more than an hour after opening. Also got richer on palate. Very, very nice.

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  12/18/2021 - fcxj wrote: 94 Points

  Broad and rich style, fairly clean.

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  6/9/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 94 Points

  Acker's Post-COVID BYO, Dinner and Auction Simulcast (Craft - New York NY): Small glass, brief note. Wow, what a treat in this vertical. Powerful and amazingly fresh for its age. Excellent depth and length with complex array of apple character. Ebru preferred the 1969, but I am with this 1976.

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  9/2/2020 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Houston, we have pschitt!!! Always a promising sign when opening aged Champagne. This BdB poured a beautiful golden cider color and still had a stream of tiny bubbles.
  
  The 76 Comtes is fully resolved with a creamy texture and citrus freshness. It’s sweet scent of fruit cake, toffee, fire roasted almonds and toasted brioche is intoxicating. Mature and appropriate slight oxidative flavors of caramel, citrus creme brûlée, honeyed dried apricot and yellow apple are deeply layered and complex. The high acidity really made this an incredible food Champagne which we enjoyed with Caviar.
  
  Devastatingly gorgeous...I completely adore the complexity of these mature, vinous CdCs!

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