Savvy wine buy: Domaine Carneros ‘96

Wednesday, June 7, 2000 | 8:51 a.m.

Taittinger is one of the most prestigious wine houses in France's fabled Champagne region, so the name alone has considerable currency. But this also happens to be a delicious sparkling wine and a fine buy, a sumptuously yeasty cuvee redolent of strawberries and honey. The wine is aged on its own yeast for three years, and is composed of 57 percent black grapes, predominantly pinot noir, and 43 percent Chardonnay. Drink now if you must, but it should live a decade or so.

Available at Cost Plus, $19.99, and Smith's, $20.99 (with Fresh Values Card).

-- Max Jacobson

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