Name: Moet and Chandon Imperial Brut
Variety: 30-40% Pinot Noir, 30-40% Pinot Meunier, 20-30% Chardonnay, and 20-30% other selected reserve wines to complete assemblage and enhance its maturity, complexity, and consistency.
Region: France (Champagne)
Price: $45!!!!!
Wine.Com Review: Brut Impèrial is a complete, generous and dynamic champagne. It is a balanced assemblage of the three wine varieties from the most expressive crus of the Champagne region.
My Review: It wouldn't be a grand occasion without some 45 dollar wine so here we go! This champagne was phenomenal and I was super excited when I saw the regal looking box in a bag on the ride over to Bald Head Island. First of all it came in a box, a bottle in a box, so you know its fancy! I was unnerved because it was brut, which I don't like, but damn I could drink this every day if I had the cash. The smell was kind of apricot-like and frutiy for a brut which got me excited. The taste was so well balanced of smooth, crisp, acidic, fruity, earthy, and every descriptor I can come up with but on different ends of the flavor spectrum, it had it all and blended them so seamlessly with the acidity a good wine deserves it was amazing. It wasn't too acidic, but crisp to balance it, it wasn't too fruity or sweet, but just dry enough to balance it, but not too much or else I would have noticed it. It was seriously perfect and I see why its 45 dollars from champagne region and my first real expensive wine. I now know the difference between the 10 dollar and 50 dollar champagnes and I highly advise people splurge just once for an occasion on this stuff because it is well worth the money. Hopefully I get into graduate school in the next few days and if I do I will definitely go buy a bottle of this and drink it all to myself.
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