It’s important to know where things come from. To understand a product’s origins, and how it arrives in our hands, is to place value in what we own. In our drink of the week series, we profile trending drink brands around lagos, giving you insider’s details of cost in clubs, production, brief history and quality. Today we profile Moët & Chandon, one of the world’s highly bought and drank Champagne, a drink for kings. Did you know, Moet is said to be the world’s largest producers of Champagne, producing over 26,000,000 bottles per year? Guess you didn’t.
This prestigious brand of Champagne is made to a high standard of excellence with Moët & Chandon Imperial, Rose Imperial, Nectar Imperial and Grand Vintage making their prestigious line of champagne flavors.
A brief history about the Company
Moët et Chandon began as Moët et Cie (Moët & Co.), established by Claude Moët in 1743, and began shipping his wine from Champagne to Paris. The reign of King Louis XV coincided with increased demand for sparkling wine making the winery’s clientele nobles and aristocrats. In 1833, the company was renamed Moet et Chandon after Pierre-Gabriel Chandon joined the company as a partner of Jean-Remy Moet, Claude Moet’s grandson.
Dom Perignon, the label’s biggest brand is named after a Catholic monk, widely acclaimed to be the “father of champagne.” Meanwhile, the Moet and Chandon Brut Imperial, their best-seller was introduced in 1860.
How it’s made
Great wines are born from excellent grapes, and when it comes to the conditions needed to make Moët & Chandon’s flagship Imperial champagne, no other place checks off the boxes quite like the picturesque vineyards of France’s Champagne region. The wine must go through two stages of fermentation, tasted by the Chef de Cave before being bottled and allowed to stay for a period of time before being released to the market. a tasting process by the Legally, the minimum ageing process for a non-vintage champagne is 15 months, and three years for a vintage.
Price in Nigeria
Prices of drinks as well as champagnes differs from club to club but nonetheless, in most clubs depending on the flavor of Moet you purchase prices range between 40k to a N100,000.
