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Moët & Chandon
Champagne France
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Grand Vintage 2015

Moët & Chandon, Champagne, France

  • Country ranking ?

    775

  • Producer ranking ?

    76

  • Decanting time

    35min

  • When to drink

    now to 2040

  • Food Pairing

Food Pairing

salmon with cranberry sauce

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2012 ›  94 Tb
2002 ›  94 Tb
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Average 92.62 Tb
Sparkling wine, Grand Vintage 2015
Grand Vintage 2015, Moët &
Chandon, Champagne, France,
Sparkling wine

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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

Each year, the Grand Vintage is a free and personal interpretation of the vintage by Moët & Chandon's Cellar Master. This 2015 cuvée is the 76th vintage made only in the great years in Champagne. This exceptional cuvée benefits from an ageing period of 6 years in the cellars as well as a minimum ageing period of 6 months after disgorgement.

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Vintage 2015

A wet winter and mild spring gave way to an exceptionally dry summer from mid-May onwards. Hot weather prevailed until mid-August, when the skies opened again. Rains gave way to fine, cool, yet sunny weather for the first two weeks of harvest, which commenced on August 29th. The 2015 vintage has a lot of common denominators with the 2003 vintage but the 2015s are showing a better balance of weight and freshness with their average potential alc...

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  • Fine

    92p

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Written Notes

The 2015 vintage is historically significant for Moët & Chandon as it marks the house's 76th Grand Vintage release. The growing season was defined by a hot, bone-dry summer, resulting in a remarkably low-acid and high-phenolic harvest. To maintain structural balance, Chef de Cave Benoît Gouez crafted an unusual, Pinot Noir-dominant blend (44% Pinot Noir, 32% Chardonnay, and 24% Meunier) and slashed the dosage to a lean 5 g/L Extra Brut after six years of cellar aging.


The 2015 Grand Vintage is a bold, highly characterful, and fascinating release that beautifully reflects the warm, solar intensity of its growing season while leaning into a savory, intellectual maturity. In the glass, it pours a deep, bright golden-yellow color with soft amber glints, animated by an active, creamy, and fine-grained stream of persistent bubbles.

The bouquet is instantly expressive, rich, and highly original, immediately stepping away from simple fruit markers to showcase an array of warm, autumnal aromas. It opens with complex notes of baked yellow apples, dried apricots, and candied orange peel, layered with an intriguing whisper of honeyed white flowers and light aniseed. As it breathes, its six years of lees maturation takes center stage, unveiling comforting, savory secondary layers of roasted almonds, dark chocolate powder, toasted brioche, and a distinctive twist of white pepper and light pipe tobacco.

On the palate, the wine delivers a substantial, full-bodied presence with marvelous volume and a fleshy, vinous texture. The high percentage of Pinot Noir brings a muscular, structural weight to the mid-palate, flooding the mouth with flavors of ripe orchard fruits, nougat, and blackcurrant oil. Because the 2015 vintage yielded naturally low acidity across the region, the wine achieves its freshness not through sharp, piercing citrus notes, but through an imposing, chalky mineral dryness and a sophisticated touch of phenolic bitterness. Dry and beautifully integrated due to its low 5 g/L Extra Brut dosage, it glides into a long, warming, and distinctly savory finish highlighted by notes of grapefruit rind, sea salt, and toasted nuts.

Drinking Window:

Having already developed a highly complex, mature aromatic profile, the 2015 Grand Vintage is completely "open for business" and is giving immense pleasure today. It is a highly gastronomic Champagne that performs at its best when served alongside food. While it has the structure to hold beautifully in a cellar over the next 10 to 15 years, its approachable, soft-acid nature suggests it is a vintage to enjoy sooner rather than later. Peak drinking window: 2026–2038.


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  • 93p

Medium intense, green yellow colour. Rich, intense, toasty and creamy nose with  density. Dry, intense and supple palate with gentle mousse and round mouthfeel. Long and lingering finish with apples, roasted coffee and brioche. – JL 94p. (3/2023)  

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Origin

Reims, Champagne

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Inside Information

The colour is of a beautiful golden hue. The effervescence is fine and lasting.

Nose
The nose opens on delicious bakery scents (soft bread, fresh brioche, almond paste). During aeration the bouquet releases floral (elderflower, jasmine) and fruity (white peach, watermelon) fragrances.

Palate
Full and supple, the palate has floral, aniseed and menthol scents which add to the champagne’s freshness and light touch throughout the tasting. The finish is lasting, delightful with its smooth bitterness recalling scents of fresh almonds.

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