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Moët & Chandon

Founded in 1743 in Épernay, Moët & Chandon is the largest Champagne house by volume and the cornerstone of LVMH's wine portfolio. Best known for its Impérial range and for Dom Pérignon, the vintage prestige cuvée bottled separately under the Moët-owned Dom Pérignon name.

Park and château of Moët & Chandon Champagne house
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Founded
1743
Location
Épernay, France
Ownership
Owned by LVMH (Moët Hennessy).
Known for
Largest champagne house by volume · Moët Impérial (NV Brut) · Dom Pérignon (separate prestige brand) · Over 1,100 ha of estate vineyards · LVMH cornerstone
Grapes
Chardonnay (3) · Meunier (3) · Pinot Noir (3)
Official site
www.moet.com

Style

Moët & Chandon's identity is built on scale and consistency. The Impérial NV is the most-distributed Champagne in the world and the wine the maison wants to be judged by: a Pinot Noir-led assemblage drawn across more than a hundred crus, with a substantial reserve component that holds the house style steady year to year. The vintage range — Grand Vintage — releases declared years only, and is built on a tighter Chardonnay-Pinot Noir core.

History

Founded in Épernay in 1743 by Claude Moët, the maison became Moët & Chandon under his grandson Jean-Rémy and his son-in-law Pierre-Gabriel Chandon in 1832. The brand's long association with Napoleonic France gave it international reach early; the Impérial label dates to the same period. Moët acquired Dom Pérignon in 1936 and the Dom Pérignon brand has been bottled separately as a prestige cuvée ever since. The maison sits at the centre of LVMH's wine portfolio, which it joined in 1987 through the Moët-Hennessy merger.

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