Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] extra-brut-selection which is exactly the kind

which is exactly the kind of detail that shows up in the glass

pure and lifted

Joe Phelps was a Colorado construction magnate who came to Napa in the early 1970s to build a winery for someone else and ended up building one for himself

Pirate is the wine he made to prove the point

A favorite summer sipper in the South of France

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Grands Crus 2014 [NET] extra-brut-selection which is exactly the kindComtes de Champagne is Taittinger's flagship, and it only gets made in vintages the house actually believes in. It is 100% Chardonnay from grand cru villages of the Cote des Blancs, Avize and Cramant and Chouilly and Oger and Le Mesnil sur Oger, and only the first press makes the cut. It then sits for close to a decade in the chalk cellars under Reims, quarried by the Gallo Romans and later put to use by the monks of the Saint Nicaise abbey. What