Grand Vintage Moët et Chandon 1996
Champagne AOC
12%
0.75L
Intensity
What makes this wine special?
A champagne matured for 7 years in the cellar: very harmonious, generous and unctuous. It can pair with a wide variety of dishes, from small canapés to poultry dishes.
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Grand Vintage Moët et Chandon 1996
The wine
After its seven years in the cellar, Moët & Chandon's "Grand Vintage" always reveals plenty of harmony, precision and maturity. A champagne which is all about pleasure and high quality.
Founded in 1743, Moët & Chandon gained its reputation when Napoléon Bonaparte personally awarded Jean-Rémy Moët the Légion d’Honneur. After a few decades, the house had built a Champagne empire, continuing to conquer new markets. Since 1987, the M in the name of the group LVMH honours the house.
Today, Moët & Chandon has broken record after record: 1,300 hectares of vines, 26 million bottles produced per year aged in 28 kilometres of cellars and distributed to 150 countries. The grapes are harvested by hand once they are ripe, macerated in temperature-controlled vats and aged in the bottles before automatic or manual riddling.
Benoît Gouez has made a number of improvements since taking over as cellar master in 2005, but the common denominator for a bottle of Moët & Chandon – fruitiness, and a balance between roundness and freshness – has remained unchanged.
The brand has a special place at many types of celebrations – we sabre its bottles, we spray the Champagne on the podium of car races, we flaunt them on red carpets...
Detailed characteristics
- Quantity:
- 1 bottle
- Level:
- 1 Normal
- Observation:
- 1 Marginally damaged label
- Origin:
- private individual
- Type of cellar:
- underground, natural cellar
- Recoverable VAT:
- no
- Wooden case:
- no
- Local excise duty seal:
- yes
- Alcohol percentage:
- 12 %
- Region:
- Champagne
- Appellation:
- Champagne
- Owner:
- Moët et Chandon
- Vintage:
- 1996
- Colour:
- sparkling white
- Service temperature:
- 8°
- Viticulture:
- conventional More information....
- Intensity:
- classic secondary fermentation
- Leading aroma:
- white fruit
- Tasting occasion:
- food-friendly wine
- Grape variety:
- Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
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