Tours
Möet & Chandon are the largest champagne producer in the world. They have the biggest headquarters and they have the fanciest real estate on the Avenue de Champagne. The Möet cellar tour is popular and its best to pre-book on their website.
We selected the €34 Impérial Moment cellar tour lasting 1 hour 15 minute. This included tasting of the Brut Impérial and Rosé champagnes.
Waiting for the Möet cellar tour to start you can’t help but notice the giant chandeliers made from crystal champagne glasses and the royal crests of 4 royal families which order from Möet & Chandon.
The Cellars
The cellars at Möet & Chandon are vast stretching over 20km in the chalk bedrock of Epernay. They store 100,000’s of bottles of champagne. The company is very proud of its close association with the Emperor Napoléon, a close friend of Jean-Remy Möet. The Brut Impérial name comes from Napoleon’s preference for Möet & Chandon champagne.
The scale of the cellars is a bit overwhelming. In some areas you catch sight of the vehicles that operate in the cellar moving staff and palates around the maze of corridors. The tour is professional and informative and it is worthwhile seeing the huge subterranean operation of the largest champagne producer in the world.
The Möet Bar
At the end of the tour you climb back up to street level to enter the Möet & Chandon bar. Glasses of champagne have been pre-prepared for your tasting. A professional sommelier is available to explain the different champagnes and to answer questions.
The Shop
The tour ends in the company shop which is massive and has has a bewildering array of products on sale. As a treat we selected the brand new premium Dom Pérignon champagne glasses made by Reidel. They have a wide bowl to allow champagnes to breathe to express their full potential.
The Möet & Chandon cellar tour is well worth going on. You won’t see technical champagne making equipment that you will see on a tour of a small producer. You do get the sense of scale of this huge producer and they sell up the history and luxuriousness of the brand very well. At the end, you are left with the impression rightly or wrongly that you’ve been part of something special.
We also have a blog article Dom Pérignon – Monk or Premier Champagne Brand? that is well worth reading.