Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV 4JULY25SALE Consider this our blue plate

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Finish: Dry and lingering

excellent as an aperitif

Its freshness and elegance will seduce both the sprightly enthusiast and the most seasoned of connoisseurs

This has so much in common with Champagne: a grape (Chardonnay)

Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV 4JULY25SALE Consider this our blue plateMost 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