Dom Pérignon Vintage Moët et Chandon 2008

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Dom Pérignon Vintage Moët et Chandon 2008

The wine

The maison's flagship wine, the Vintage cuvée is matured in vats and lightly dosed to qualify it for the brut category. After 10 years of resting in the cellar, this wine develops seductive, intensely fruity notes, complexity, and – most notably – great aromatic persistence. The immediate impression is its aromatic bouquet, made up of notes of flowers, citrus and stoned fruit. Its palate ends in a long, spicy, roasted finish which firmly underlines its ageing potential and remarkable ability to be paired with fine foods.

About the Producer Moët et Chandon

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...