Delta Airways Elevates Its In-Flight Eating Providing With Champagne Taittinger Service

Whether or not you are flying for enterprise or pleasure, air journey can typically be a problem. Happily, one main airline is including a contact of indulgence to your journey — a wonderful alternative to toast a enterprise milestone, anniversary, or honeymoon at 35,000 toes.

Delta Airways is now serving the long-lasting Champagne Taittinger throughout its in-flight drink service, the corporate reveals solely to Meals & Wine. Simply in time for Delta’s 100-year anniversary, the Atlanta-based provider hopes to deliver a “quiet, refined class” that impresses frequent flyers. Bottles of Taittinger’s core Brut la Française will likely be stocked on Delta One drink carts, supplied previous to meal service, and accessible by request all through the flight.

“Taittinger’s popularity for excellence mirrors our personal, and we’re thrilled to associate with them as we elevate your journey expertise,” Kristen Manion Taylor, senior vice chairman of inflight service, mentioned assertion. 

Brut la Française — a fragile pale-gold bubbly with aromas of peach, vanilla, and brioche, and a taste profile of honey and fruit — is a uniquely Chardonnay-heavy (40%) Champagne that usually retails for round $70 per bottle. For in-flight pairings, Delta recommends having fun with it alongside seafood or hen dishes throughout meal service.

“From our very first conversations, it was clear that each Champagne Taittinger and Delta Airways take nice pleasure in delivering excellence, whether or not within the air or in a glass,” Champagne Taittinger president Vitalie Taittinger tells Meals & Wine. “As Delta approached its centennial yr, this felt like the proper time to collaborate to raise in-flight hospitality, providing vacationers a way of refinement and celebration from the second they step on the aircraft.”

The label brings centuries of custom—and celebratory toasts—to the skies. For these unfamiliar with the esteemed maison, Taittinger is a family-owned and operated home based mostly in Reims, France. Based in 1734 by Jacques Fourneaux and later acquired by Pierre Taittinger in 1931, the home has since been overseen by three generations, sustaining its popularity for excellence.

In the meantime, Delta Airways pours greater than 900,000 glasses of its current Champagne per yr and opens greater than 1.4 million bottles, as the corporate tells us. This newest menu addition isn’t the primary shift within the airline’s food-and-beverage technique, nevertheless it does mark a big step within the premiumization of its wine choices. 

Final October, the corporate refocused its menu on an expanded wine program that includes notable bottles and vintages from various areas. As the corporate shares, that is a part of a extra important push to determine the airline as a pacesetter in wine service — all the way down to its proprietary Sky Sommelier program, which offers wine training to pick flight attendants throughout transatlantic journey. 

A glass of top-notch bubbly within the air? Don’t thoughts if we do.