Maison 97 of 100 · Spirits & Gastronomy
Moët & Chandon
The reading
The champagne that made the category global. Impérial is the bottle at the finish line; MCIII is the cellar experiment. Volume luxury, done with a house that still owns hectares in Épernay.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1743
- Atelier
- Spirits & Gastronomy
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Impérial / MCIII
- Register note
- Champagne scale This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
Where it sits in this register
By founding year it is the 3rd-oldest of the hundred. It is one of twenty-six maisons filed here from France, the largest national group in the register. It is one of twenty-one LVMH houses in this register: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Celine, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, and fourteen more. Counted inside its own room it stands 6th of the nine houses this register files under Spirits & Gastronomy. France is No. 7 of the hundred economies in this register's atlas, at $3.60T — International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook database, April 2026.