Extracted from a thread just posted: Learning more about {white} Burgundy: Our Blind Wine Dinner Group took it to another level with a flight of 5 wines from 2017 Meursault-Perrieres after a 2006 Taittinger Comtes
2006 TAITTINGER COMTES de CHAMPAGNE BLAMC de BLANC- my bring poured blind; it had a yellow gold color, but no other real indications of aging, “2006 is a ripe vintage; though it is perceived as a “low acid” year, the combination of ripe tartaric acidity and high natural ABV gives the wine structure and precision)”; as with most all other bottles I’ve had of this Comtes, it had bright acidity that embellished the aromas and tastes of ginger, honey and toasty brioche accented ripe lemon, lime citrus fruit and yellow apple notes; it had a wondrous creamy mouthfeel with some weight which carried all of the goodness to the back end where it just hung on for a long, satisfying finish; this was a really good bottle.
After lots of discussion, the others concluded this was in the 2006- 2008 range, a blanc de blanc and from a big house; one had it perfectly. We’re learning.
Cheers,
Blake
