Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV PET-NAT setting the tone for any

setting the tone for any refined occasion

and seasoned wood

whose Joseph Vaudan winery doubles as a teaching cellar - makes one of the reference bottlings

unfolding with waves of green apple

Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV PET-NAT setting the tone for anyMost big house non vintage Champagne leans on Pinot Noir. Taittinger goes the other way: roughly 40% Chardonnay in the blend, an unusually high share, and you can taste it in the wine's lift and cut. Pinot Noir and Meunier fill in the flesh. It rests close to four years on its lees in the chalk cellars beneath Reims, well beyond the legal minimum, which buys texture and a fine, persistent bead. The result is one of the more elegant house styles