Brand story
Taittinger Prestige Brut (Brut Réserve)
Champagne Taittinger was founded in 1932, when Pierre Taittinger and his brother-in-law acquired Forest-Fourneaux, one of the oldest houses in Champagne. It was his son François who gave the family name to the label and made Chardonnay its signature variety, and Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger who returned the House to family ownership in 2006. Today Taittinger farms the second-largest vineyard holding in Champagne — 288 hectares across 37 plots in the Côte des Blancs, Montagne de Reims, Marne Valley and the Aube — certified HVE and VDC, and worked with tilled soils, controlled grass cover, no herbicides or insecticides, and eco-grazing.
The House’s non-vintage signature is built from the three Champagne varieties — 40% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir, 25% Meunier — drawn from more than forty vineyards and four different vintages. That unusually high proportion of Chardonnay, rare for a non-vintage brut, is what sets the style: fresh, elegant and refined, with fine bubbles, delicate fruit and honey aromatics, and a palate of complete balance. A champagne of dimension and consistency rather than display, it remains the clearest expression of the Taittinger spirit, carried unchanged from one generation to the next.
