Taittinger Champagne Collection Sebastiao Salgado 2008 750ml

Since 1983, Taittinger has collaborated some of its greatest vintage cuvees with the work of contemporary artists. The bottle becomes both the canvas and inspiration for a special creation which eventually becomes a signed piece of artwork.
The contributor in 2016 for the 14th edition to this prestigious gallery was the famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. He was given a bottle of Taittinger Brut Millésimé 2008 to decorate with one of his famous, globally significant pieces of art. It depicted a leopard drinking from a life-giving river in Namibia.

• Country: France
• Region: Champagne
• Size: 750ml
• Alcohol by Vol: 12.5%

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.