A firm, focused Champagne, with a pleasing crunchiness to the fine mousse. Reveals a toasty edge, with notes of smoke, brioche and vanilla showing up front, before transitioning to underscore and enrich flavors of nectarine and plum fruit, salted almond, lemon curd and anise as they expand through the creamy finish. Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier

Produced from 44% Pinot Noir, 32% Chardonnay, and the rest Meunier, the 2015 Champagne Grand Vintage Extra Brut pours a medium golden-straw hue and is opulent on opening with toasty aromas of baked bread, spiced orange peel, marzipan, and dried peach. Full-bodied, with a pillowy mouthfeel, it has a very nice balance of ripe fruit while retaining freshness Silky textured, its notes of citrus oils and orchard fruits last through the finish. This elegant and warming wine would do fantastically well moving into these cooler fall and winter months.

The 2015 Extra-Brut Grand Vintage is a terrific choice for drinking now, as it is so expressive. Baked apple tart, spice, lemon confit, marzipan and a hint of toastiness are front and center. Open-knit and engaging, the 2015 is a Champagne of pure and total pleasure.

Cellar Selection - Still young, this toasty Champagne is full of fruit along with spice and with freshness at the end. It is rich, with touches of maturity.

The 2015 Moët & Chandon “Grand Vintage” is composed from a cépages this year of forty-four percent pinot noir, thirty-two percent chardonnay and twenty-four percent pinot meunier. It was aged sur latte six-plus years prior to disgorgement and finished with a dosage of five grams per liter. The wine delivers a bright and youthfully complex bouquet of lemon, tart apple, chalky soil tones, bread dough, white flowers and a touch of citrus zest in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied and zesty, with a good core of fruit, fine mineral undertow, elegant mousse and a long, still fairly primary and well balanced finish. This is approachable today, but it is crafted in that reductive style made famous at Dom Pérignon, so giving it another three or four years in the cellar will really let it blossom properly and show more of its overt fruit tones. Good juice.

Biscuits, hazelnuts, peaches and baked apples on the nose. Some caramel. Medium-bodied with a broad mousse. Textured, with a dry honeycomb character. 44% pinot noir, 32% chardonnay and 24% meunier. Dosage 5 g/l. Disgorged in February 2022.