Moet & Chandon Champagne Brut Imperial NV ReasonableCellar2025 when it made wine to

when it made wine to please royalty at the Court of Versailles

earth and spice driven rye

dessert sherry

the best producer of gueuze out there and this is their flagship

this one is only mildly bitter

Moet & Chandon Champagne Brut Imperial NV ReasonableCellar2025 when it made wine toIf you've ever had Champagne at a wedding, odds are good it was this. Moet has been at it since 1743 and is by a wide margin the largest house in the region, which means Brut Imperial is assembled from a hundred plus base wines drawn from across Champagne, plus reserve wines from earlier years to hold the house style steady bottle after bottle. Pinot Noir supplies the body, Meunier the roundness, Chardonnay the lift. It isn't trying to be a grower's