The Instant When

The Instant When

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The Instant When episodes

  • Tasting - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious drink produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. After ageing in the bottle for a number of years, depending on the cuvée, the champagne is ready to be tasted. A magical time which Damien Lesueur, Director General of Maison Taittinger, now shares with us


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    6 min
  • Riddling - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious drink produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. After a long period of rest, we must make the wine clear again by removing the sediment that formed during the second fermentation. The time for riddling as Julien Lataix, Disgorgement Manager at Maison Taittinger, explains


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    4 min
  • Entraillage or stacking - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. So, bottling has taken place. But where and how do we leave all these bottles to age? Should they be stored in a particular position? Julien Lataix, Disgorgement Manager at Maison Taittinger, tells us all about it.


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    4 min
  • Blending - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. So, the harvest is over and bottling can begin. But first, there’s another stage – blending. Blending allows us to produce unique champagnes according to grape variety, cru and year. Listen to Damien Lesueur, Director General of Maison Taittinger, as he explains all about it


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    6 min
  • Harvesting - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. The grapes are at last ripe after months of taking care of them. It’s now harvest time, a long-awaited moment for Christelle Rinville, Vineyard Director at Taittinger


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    6 min
  • Tasting the grapes - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. The stage of tasting the grapes is a crucial time as the harvest gets closer. Thanks to our methodical system of tasting, we can accurately assess the ripeness of the grapes, Christelle Rinville explains


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    6 min
  • Work on the growing vines -The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. As soon as the vines have been pruned, our teams all rally round for months of work on the growing vines, including disbudding, lifting and trellising, to name a few. David Arvois, Chief Winemaker at La Marquetterie


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    5 min
  • Pruning - The routine actions of a working vineyard
    It’s summer with long-awaited reunions on the terrace and the sun is shining. It’s time to take seat ‘In the shadow of champagne’ and enjoy the perfect tasting. But how is this sublime and delicious beverage produced? Through eight episodes in this new season of podcaps, you’ll find out all about eight key stages in the production of champagne. It all starts with the vines, of course, with pruning taking place as early as November. David Arvois, Chief Winemaker at La Marquetterie


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    6 min
  • Vins clairs tasting at the Taittinger winery

    Champagne is the result of an alchemy between the sky, the terroir, the sun and the people who will patiently shape the produce of their vines, month after month and year after year. 

    We’re heading to Reims, to the Taittinger House’s winery. It’s here that the annual harvest is stored in huge vats, which go as far as the eye can see. In our previous episodes of “The Instant when”, we were there for harvesting season and the first vatting of the summer 2020 harvest. A particularly hot year. 

    A few months later it’s time for the first tastings. At this stage, the clear wines – that’s their name – still don’t have any bubbles, but they do already have potential.

    Potential that the House’s sharpest palates are able to analyse, deconstruct and understand. The cellar master Alexandre Ponnavoy has organised a tasting with Damien Le Sueur, Director, and Vitalie Taittinger, CEO of the House, to accompany them as they discover the future 2020 vintage.


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    15 min
  • Podcaps Taittinger : Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, Honorary Chairman

    Podcaps Taittinger : our new audio clips! Short moments that will make you travel and discover the soul of the Taittinger Champagne House.

    The honorary chairman Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger will speak about heritage, history and transmission to future generations.


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    4 min

About The Instant When

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Throughout the episodes, this podcast retraces a few moments of life of the Taittinger House. These adventures will take us from vineyards to painting, from Rimbaud to the Opéra ... Join us and travel to the heart and soul of Taittinger Champagne.