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Taittinger caves. Taittinger (pronounced [tɛtɛ̃ʒe]) is a French wine family who are famous producers of Champagne.The estate is currently headed by Vitalie Taittinger, [1] who is the daughter of Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger [] (born 1953), a member of the consultative committee of the Banque de France.
Jean Taittinger (25 January 1923 – 23 September 2012) [1] was a French politician and member of the champagne producing Taittinger family. Political career [ edit ]
Taittinger became managing director of the family business after the accidental death of his brother, François, in 1960. [2] He was also Chairman of the Société du Louvre and served on the advisory board of the Bank of France. To honor his father, who died in 1965, he founded the Prix culinaire international Pierre-Taittinger in 1967. [3]
Born in Paris, Pierre Taittinger's family were originally from Lorraine and had left the Moselle département when it had been annexed by the German Empire in 1871 in order to remain French citizens. An officer in the cavalry during the First World War, Taittinger received several citations and was decorated as a Commander of the National Order ...
A negociant Champagne from Montaudon Tsarine, a second label of Chanoine Frères A Grand Cru grower Champagne from Bernard Bremont A Grand Cru Champagne from Georges Vesselle A blanc de blanc Grand Cru Champagne from Franck Bonville Bottles of Moët & Chandon in the caves Bottles of Taittinger in the cave Bottles of Veuve Clicquot ranging from "piccolo" (0.188 L) to "Balthazar" (12 L)
Until 2005, through Concorde Hotels & Resorts, the Hôtel de Crillon was part of the Société du Louvre (whose shares were listed on the Paris Stock Exchange) and was controlled by the Taittinger family holding company. The Starwood Capital Group bought the hotel from the former Taittinger group in 2005.
It was acquired by the Taittinger family in 1955. In the late 1980s, designer Sonia Rykiel opened a boutique in the building, and supervised a major redesign intended to recreate the Art Deco style of earlier decades. Taittinger's Groupe du Louvre controlled the hotel
Rather than single estate growers or monasteries producing the majority of wine, private houses or merchants who bought grapes from vineyard owners to make Champagne came to dominate. The houses of Moët & Chandon, Louis Roederer, Piper-Heidsieck and Taittinger were some of the major houses that were founded during this period. Each house hired ...