Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV (375ml) FRFLSH and they knew not to

and they knew not to turn their back on Meunier no matter what fickle market pressures suggested

Anisette combines nobility with charm

Marcel Lapierre is the man most responsible for what natural Beaujolais became

second fermentation in the bottle

dried pineapple

Taittinger Champagne Brut La Francaise NV (375ml) FRFLSH and they knew not toThe half bottle is an underrated format: two good glasses, no commitment, no flat Champagne going sad in the fridge door. This is Taittinger's house wine, and its house style is Chardonnay forward at roughly 40% of the blend, unusually high for a big house non vintage, with Pinot Noir and Meunier filling in the middle. It spends close to four years on its lees in the chalk cellars beneath Reims, far past the legal minimum, which is where the texture