Grand Vintage 2015 - which is the 76th in the line of Vintage Champagnes from Moët & Chandon since the house launched their first vintage Champagne back in 1842 - is an impressive wine, partly because it tastes good, partly because it is amazing that it is possible to produce hundreds of thousands of bottles at such a high and consistent level.
The wine is the result of a mixture of wines created from the grapes of up to 100 different parcels around Champagne. Chardonnay is always the dominant grape, followed by Pinot Noir and then Pinot Meunier in a mixture that Moët & Chandon historically did not always manage to account for.
However, this is no longer the case, and although it has been a complicated calculation, chef de cave Benoît Gouez was able to state in connection with the launch that the distribution in the 2013 vintage was 41/38/21, and that the wine after 60 months of aging in bottle was disgorged with a dosage of just 5g. per liter which means that it arrives again as Extra Brut.