with huge reserves of concentration and sweet

and persistent with great depth

Classy and long

Picked before

Black Forest cake and oolong tea scents with touches of pencil shavings and dusty soil

Taittinger Comtes de Champagne, Champagne, 2006, 75cl Løse flasker with huge reserves of concentrationThe 2012 Brut Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is showing beautifully out of the gates, offering up demonstrative aromas of sweet golden orchard fruit, buttery croissants, peach and hazelnuts. Medium to full bodied, pillowy and enveloping, it's a rich, textural, vinous Comtes somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant 2002. If it gains in tension and cut (as the 2002 did and as I suspect the 2012 will) with more time on cork , it will make this initial