Moët & Chandon
Moët & Chandon Collection Impériale Création N°1
Moët & Chandon Collection Impériale Création N°1
Product Detail
Product Detail
Collection Impériale is the highest expression of Moët & Chandon's art of Haute Oenologie. It is a multi- layered champagne that transcends the perception of time, achieving harmony between the freshness of youth and the maturity of age.
Complex yet accessible, it is the ultimate representation of Cellar Master Benoît Gouez’s virtuosity to date. A blend of seven remarkable vintages, each with singularities, and each carefully evaluated and aged in distinct environments to enhance its individual qualities.
Collection Impériale is the quintessence of the Moët & Chandon style: bright fruitiness, seductive palate and elegant maturity.
HOW TO ENJOY
HOW TO ENJOY
Colour: Deep, bright yellow hue, reminiscent of a canary diamond
Aroma: A gradually revealing bouquet: -
Licorice root, mocha and toast Madeleine, fresh hazelnut and vanilla Luscious fruit emerge, accompanied by hints of dried fig and mirabelle plum
Palate: A generous & serene palate
Aromatic sweetness Creamy and delicate effervescence Interplay of freshness and bitters Smoke and licorice
As per estate tradition, Création No. 1 is a blend, but one that is based on seven different vintages, starting with the light and elegant base vintage 2013, which has been aged in stainless steel.
Next come four vintages, also aged in steel, followed by two oak-aged vintages – the 2004, which is taken from bottles, and the oldest, a 23-year-old from 2000.
The result is so complex that cellar master Benoît Gouez made the unplanned decision to forgo dosage and present the wine as 'brut nature' – the first in 280 years of winemaking.
While not adding any dosage is a departure for Moët & Chandon, Gouez is clear that the truest expression of this release was without sugar. Benoît Gouez, our Cellar Master, tested to find the perfect harmony for this wine. His desire was to let the wine express all its aromatic complexity and find this delicate balance of harmony at the same time. When he was blindly tasting it, he decided a brut nature was the right way to let the wine’s character shine.
Collection Impériale Création No. 1 is a blend of seven vintages, each of which has been carefully evaluated and aged in distinct environments to enhance its individual qualities.
Most of the wine is from the 2013 Grand Vintage (42.5%), aged in stainless-steel tanks, with a further 42.5% of the blend made up of almost equal proportions of reserve wines from 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006 and 2000. The final addition is a generous 15% of a 2004 vintage emptied into the blend from bottles ageing on lees after a second fermentation.
The blend is made up of approximately 40% each of pinot noir and chardonnay, and 20% of meunier (the proportions are approximate because nearly 60% of the final blend is made from six different reserve wines).
Collection Impériale Création No. 1 is a brut nature champagne – with no added sugar at dosage, it delivers a pure expression of its flavours.
