{"title":"Taittinger's 2013 Comtes de Champagne Rosé","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bottle of the new \u003cstrong\u003eComtes de Champagne Rosé 2013\u003c\/strong\u003e arrived in the office recently. We opened it. It's a cracker... certainly the best new release of Comtes Rosé our Wine Director Tom can recall, and he's tasted quite a few!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaittinger's Comtes de Champagne Rosé is the rarest thing the house produces — made only in exceptional years, exclusively from Grand Cru fruit, and aged for 12 years in UNESCO-listed 4th-century chalk cellars beneath Reims before release. The 2013 has just arrived and the scores say everything: \u003cstrong\u003e98 points from James Suckling and 97 from Antonio Galloni\u003c\/strong\u003e, who calls it \"\u003cem\u003ea gorgeous, exotic wine... sublime.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2013 vintage in Champagne was marked by an exceptionally late, cool growing season followed by a glorious summer and an equally late harvest that preserved extraordinary freshness and definition. The result is a wine of remarkable energy — Suckling describes it as \"\u003cem\u003esleek, taut and superbly fresh... seamless and long.\u003c\/em\u003e\" Galloni finds \"\u003cem\u003esweet dried cherry, kirsch, tobacco, rose petal, cedar and mint... a sumptuous, racy Rosé that delivers on all fronts.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaittinger remains one of the few great Champagne houses owned and actively managed by the family on the label — Vitalie and Clovis Taittinger, great-grandchildren of the founder, run it today. We have just 12 cases of this belter.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"champagne-taittinger-comtes-de-champagne-rose-2013","title":"Champagne Taittinger, Comtes De Champagne Rosé, 2013","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEst. delivery in Autumn, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrafted only in the most outstanding vintages, Taittinger's Comtes De Champagne Rosé is a blend of 40% Grand Cru Chardonnay from the Côte des Blancs and 60% Pinot Noir from the Montagne de Reims region, including a portion of still red wine that gives the Champagne its vivid colour and remarkable depth. The 2013 vintage in Champagne was one of the more demanding of the decade, which is precisely why the wines that made it through are worth paying attention to. Lower yields, cool conditions, and careful selection produced wines of real precision and energy rather than the easy opulence of warmer years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach bottle is a nod to history, presented in elegant, 18th-century-style glass, and aged deep underground for a decade in the UNESCO-listed chalk cellars of Saint Nicaise in Reims.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Champagne Taittinger","offers":[{"title":"IN BOND \/ 3X75CL","offer_id":53556590838067,"sku":"TAIT-CORO-13-3-75-IN BOND","price":420.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7463\/7875\/files\/taittinger-comtes-de-champagne-rose-2013-750.jpg?v=1782482757"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/7463\/7875\/collections\/taittinger-comtes-rose-2013.jpg?v=1782977697","url":"https:\/\/www.honestgrapes.co.uk\/collections\/taittingers-2013-comtes-de-champagne-rose.oembed","provider":"Honest Grapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}