Taittinger Collection Sebastiao Salgado 2008 Champagne

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The 2008 vintage, a first press blend, is made up of Grands Crus and Premiers Crus, including 50% Chardonnay and 50% Pinot Noir.

After a rainy and mild winter, a gloomy spring, the 2008 harvest took place under fine, cool and dry weather, delivering a beautiful and very healthy harvest.

The Chardonnays, lively and fine, present a nice minerality.

The Pinots Noirs are fruity and winey, with an always lively finish.

The sustained acidity, perfectly blended with the wine, bodes well for excellent aging potential.

In 1734, Jacques Fourneaux established a wine-business in Champagne and worked closely with the Benedictine Abbeys which, at that time, owned the finest vineyards in the region.

Jacques Fourneaux starts this activity in Reims, by trading still red or white Champagne wines, then sparkling wines from those wonderful vineyards.

In champagne’s history, he was the third to get into wine trading. The Fourneaux associate with Antoine Forest in the 1820s. Soon, the new company flourishes under the name Forest-Fourneaux.

For a while, it settles in the Vergeur hotel in Reims, before transferring the activity after the first world war on Tambour street, in the 13^th century house of the Counts of Champagne.

In 1932, Pierre Taittinger bought the Château de la Marquetterie from the wine house of Forest-Fourneaux. From 1945 to 1960, the House was managed by François Taittinger with help from his two brothers Jean and Claude. It was at that time that the House settled in the Saint-Nicaise abbey’s cellars, built in the 13^th century on roman chalk quarries from the 4^th century. In 1960, Claude Taittinger managed and gave a great drive to the House.

After difficult times inside the group the restructure the stocks in the years 2005-2006, it was Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, a third generation who took over, with help from his two children Clovis and Vitalie, a fourth generation to write the future.

Taittinger’s vineyard spreads on around 300 hectares for a production amounting to 6 million bottles.

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