Moet & Chandon Champagne Nectar Imperial, Demi-Sec

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Anthony Gismondi

Nectar is always fun to serve often catching your guests off guard with its off-dry flavours. The nose hint at some sweetness with floral, honey, baked green apple notes flecked with just the right amount of bitter guava flavouring. Fresh and juicy the style allows you to serve this before dinner with foie gras or through dinner with spicy dishes all with finesse and balance. The blend is 40/50 pinot noir, 30/40 pinot meunier and 10/20 chardonnay with 20/30 per cent reserve wines.

Steve Thurlow

This off-dry Champagne is often a pleasant surprise to those who find brut Champagne to austere as a sipping wine. It is sweet enough to be drunk on its own without food or with mildly spicy appetizers or fruit and pastry desserts that are not too sweet. The nose shows honey and floral tones on top of baked apple with some guava notes and baked lemon. It is midweight and very juicy with good focus and a long lingering finish. Very good length.

David Lawrason

This is notably sweet, with the word 'Nectar" being the only label hint that it is sweet. I actually really like the balance here, and see a place for this wine; the sweetness is not an issue in itself. But it does make it more difficult to define the complexities - the flavours of honey nougat, pear, melon and classic Champagne autolytic character. It's light to medium bodied, medium sweet with firm acidity providing good ballast. Lively, indeed almost piquant, with excellent length.

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