1914 Moët &amp;
Chandon Grand Vintage Collection

It’s not everyday
one has a chance to taste a 100 year-old Champagne that has been stored
perfectly and only recently been re-released, as is the case with this bottle. Contemporary
accounts describe 1914 as a year with a good bud break. A drawn out flowering
resulted in significant coulure, which along with an outbreak of worms, lowered
yields by about 50% relative to the historic norm of the era. Perhaps for that
reason the 1914 is deep and vinous in the glass, with remarkable concentration for a wine of its age.<img alt="" src="https://allgrapes.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads%2F1450718675804-DSC06128+-+Copy.jpg"> 

It was of course an
important year in history. On August 3 Germany declared war on France. A day
later, the German army invaded Belgium on its way into French territory. Harvest
began on September 25 that year. The men were away fighting, so the crop was
brought in by women, children and the elderly, some of who were among the many
civilian casualties of the war. In the end, the Champagne region lost about
half of its population during World War I, a sobering fact that should never be
forgotten. And so, there is something undeniably triumphant and also reassuring
about drinking Moët’s 1914 today, at a time when the world can sometimes&nbsp;feel so&nbsp;fragile.
92/Drink now.

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