1921-2021: Moët et Chandon celebrates a century of champagne

This is called a vertical. This kind of event attracts the cream of the wine tasters. Today, there are ten of them, flocking from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Finland, Italy, Japan or Germany at the call of Benoît Gouez, the cellar master of Moët. & Chandon (LVMH group). They are fine mouths, competitive noses, experts in precision cannonade, collectors of rarities, traveling encyclopedias of the wine of kings, sensitive souls too, like the German critic Anne Krebiehl, who cannot hold back her tears. while bubbles imprisoned since the 1930s release their aromas on his palate. Here, a few meters underground, by candlelight, in the damp cellar of the Épernay house, the areopagus of tasters has a rendezvous with history.

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The vertical consists of going back in time by tasting a series of vintages from the same estate.

Each sip is a leap further into the past.

It is undoubtedly

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