Iron Gate Fine Wine Auction
Tue, Sep 16, 2025 10:00AM EDT - Tue, Sep 23, 2025 08:00PM EDT
Timed Auction
- 1998
- White Sparkling
- Chardonnay
- Champagne
- Champagne
- France
- 750ml
Lot 796
1998 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Champagne - 1 bottle(s)-750ml
Estimate: CAD$550 - CAD$800
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| CAD$0 | CAD$20 |
| CAD$500 | CAD$50 |
| CAD$1,000 | CAD$100 |
| CAD$2,000 | CAD$200 |
| CAD$3,000 | CAD$250 |
| CAD$5,000 | CAD$500 |
| CAD$10,000 | CAD$1,000 |
| CAD$20,000 | CAD$2,000 |
| CAD$50,000 | CAD$5,000 |
| CAD$100,000 | CAD$10,000 |
This lot is comprised of 1 bottle(s) of 1998 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Champagne - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $550 - $800 with a reserve of $420. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11102.
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A Toronto based consignor who has an affinity for Californian wine. The bottles were store in a humidity and temperature-controlled cellar.
The score for 1998 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Champagne is 94 from Robert Parker and the tasting note - The 1998 Blanc de Blancs Comtes de Champagne is simply beautiful. Sweet notes of honey are intermingled with candied citrus peel, flowers, smoke and minerals as this gorgeous wine opens up in the glass. Comtes de Champagne is always an understated, elegant wine, but its pedigree is impossible to miss. Readers seeking instant gratification will find much to admire even today, but this is clearly a wine that has the potential to develop positively in bottle. If past vintages are an accurate indication, the wine should acquire the liqueur-like sweetness in bottle that is its hallmark over time. Old vintages of Comtes de Champagne are unlike any other wine. The Comtes de Champagne is 100% Chardonnay from the grand cru villages Avize, Cramant, Chouilly, Beergers-les-Vertus, Vertus and Mesnil-sur-Oger. A small amount of the wine is aged in new French oak barrels. Additional scores for the wine in this lot - Wine Spectator 95 points , Wine Enthusiast 95 points , The Wine Advocate 94 points , CellarTracker 93 points .
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