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    1 446
  • Producer ranking ?

    170
  • Decanting time

    15min
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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Moët & Chandon has released its Grand Vintage Blanc and Grand Vintage Rosé from the 2008 vintage.

Producing wines described by chef de cave Benoît Gouez as “fresh and uncompromising, with acidity as the defining characteristic”, the 2008 vintage was one of the cooler years of the last decade.

Gouez, who has been head winemaker at Moët & Chandon since 2005, describes each Grand Vintage Cuvée as ‘Vintage by Moët & Chandon’ and his personal...

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The Story

Every Grand Vintage is unique and original, the Cellar Master’s free, personal interpretation in service of revealing the exceptional personality of singular vintage years. 

Moët & Chandon's Champagne Grand Vintage is only made in great years. This wine of Champagne is the symbol of the spirit that presides over the creation of each Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage. It is the fruit of a personal interpretation of the year's composition and is t...

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Wine Information

Although temperatures were in line with 30-year averages, 2008 can still be considered a cooler year in comparison to the last decade, similar to 2004 and 1998. Winter was mild and spring mostly rainy and grey. Summer was particularly cool but, fortunately, dry as well. September was the key month for the 2008 vintage: the initial rains were swept away by a north-westerly wind that favoured proper ripening, healthy grapes and a smooth harvest,...

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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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Tasting note

color

Medium, Green-Yellow and Bright

flavors

Blackcurrant, Toasty and Mineral

nose

Youthful, Complex and Fresh

Written Notes

Overt and expressive fruit-driven nose, with pear, fennel, straw and lime aromas. On the palate the tones are sweeter,
with vanilla, wine gums and toast coming through. Rich and succulent yet fresh and feisty palate, finishing with mineral seashell tones. Generous and enjoyable already but built to last.

  • 93p

Bright yellow. Citrus, honeysuckle, nectarine and frangipane aromas. Focused white-fruit flavours and a mouthwatering finish.

Good looking normal size bottle. Colour is green-yellow, and looking bright and medium. On the nose it is open, youthful, complex and fresh. On the palate it is layered and has mineral, blackcurrant and toasty flavours.
- (Tasting note created by Tb's AI)
  • 92p
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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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