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Grand Vintage 2013

Moët & Chandon, Champagne, France

Moët & Chandon
Champagne France
  • 91
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  • 8 Pros of
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    1 445

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    171

  • Decanting time

    20min

  • When to drink

    now to 2030

  • Food Pairing

    scallop carpaccio

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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

Unique and original, Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2013 is the house's 75th vintage, designed for milestone moments and epicurean experiences with gourmet delights. Each vintage is the result of Moet & Chandon Chef de Cave's personal, free interpretation of the singular qualities of that year's grapes. 

This Champagne has Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in near equal parts, enhanced by shadows of Meunier. After 7 years in the cellars, it reveals a...

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Vintage 2013

The Champagne harvest 2013– late, but potentially outstanding

It has been another strange year for Champagne, starting with a cold, wet winter, followed by a gloomy, chilly spring with a lot of rain. Vine development started two weeks behind the ten-year average, and never made up for that lost time.

Along the way came a hot dry summer, boosting fruit quality thanks to the most sunshine ever recorded in Champagne in July and August.

R...

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Written Notes

“The 2013 Blanc Grand Vintage is bright, focused and wonderfully vibrant. Lemon peel, crushed rocks, mint and white pepper lend notable brightness to this chiseled, finely cut Champagne. The 2013 is just a bit compact today. Perhaps it will gain body with time in bottle.”

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  • 91p

Bright yellow colour with slightly green hue. Fine nose with aroma reminiscent of elder blossoms, lemon zest, discreet pomaceous fruit in the background. On the palate excellent mousseux, fine minerality, flavour of lemon zest, green hazelnuts and pomaceous fruit, very good length. 

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  • 93p

“A slowly ageing Champagne of a great, cool Chardonnay year. The stylishly toast-lined nose comes with a fruit salad of aromas: lime, green melon, pineapple and lemon pie. The palate has such tension and energy. It is not the friendliest of vintages: there is a degree of austerity for the time being; even the mousse feels a little nervous right now. Quite lean and juicy, with a lovely feeling of minerality on the long, lingering finish. This one will go far. Disgorged 9/21; dosage 5g/l”

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  • 93p

41% Chardonnay, 38% Pinot Noir, 21% Pinot Meunier. Dosage just 5 g/l. The back label also tells us 'the date mentioned hereafter is the disgorgement date' but there is no date on my back label – perhaps it's an early sample.
Pale lemon yellow. Attractive evolution on the nose without its being at all heavy aromatically. Pretty aggressive mousse but nicely judged blend that is quite elegant and certainly not aggressively sweet. Though this of course belongs in a completely different bracket from the army of fine and more idiosyncratic single-estate champagnes.

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  • 86p
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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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