2008 Pierre Moncuit Millesime Blanc De Blancs Brut

“The 2008 Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru is a fabulous wine from this great Champagne vintage.” 

Do you also get goose bumps when "Champagne" and "2008" are written in the same sentence?

The phrase comes from Antonio Galloni of Vinous, and he acknowledges his opinion with 94 points. This is a Pierre Moncuit Millesime Blanc de Blancs, which allows you to invest in grand cru champagnes from the mighty 2008 vintage - and for less than €40 a bottle. A sensational price/quality ratio and an obvious choice for the value investor. 

Famous Champagne Vintage: Why?

2008 is referred to as perhaps the best vintage in Champagne ever. All Champagne houses experienced ideal conditions and that is why vintage champagnes from this particular year are so celebrated. 

The vintage has proven its worth with many great wines: the Bollinger VVF got 99 points by Juhlin, the Salon got 100 points by Vinous, and the Cristal Rosé was rewarded with 100 points by Wine Advocate and similar history with the vintage is in queue. However, it is not only among the greatest prestige champagnes that the good stories are to be found. Pierre Moncuit is equally capable of delivering star shots. 

The Moncuit family has a clear idea that wines should only be released when the vintage allows it. The 2008 vintage is late to market for the same reason, as the family has given it extra time in the cellar. The longer time in the cellar has created an even better balance between the fruit and the bubbles in the bottle.  

Pierre Moncuit even produces his vintage champagne in Mesnil-sur-Oger, which can rightly be considered the champagne commune above them all.

Magnificent Mesnil-Sur-Oger And Chardonnay In Grand Cru Clothes

Ask any champagne expert what the best commune in Champagne and the answer is: Mesnil-sur-Oger on the famous Cote de Blancs. 

This is exactly where Pierre Moncuit works his wine magic on just 15 hectares of vines that will soon be celebrating their 100th birthday. All these vineyards are planted with Chardonnay and are classified as Grand Cru.  

The commune's impressive reputation is due to world-class manufacturers such as Salon and Krug, which have also established themselves here. Pierre Moncuit now owns 20 hectares, with 15 hectares in Mesnil-sur-Oger itself, which together yield the family 180,000 bottles in normal vintages, which is only a fraction of what some of its popular neighbors produce annually.  

Pierre Moncuit: A FAMILY DYNASTY CONTINUES

Back in 1889, Alex Moncuit buys the first parcels of vines and writes the prologue of the family's wine history. Alex's son Pierre Moncuit is the first to commercialize the house's production and, together with his wife, he puts the house on the wine world map. 

Pierre runs the house until 1977, when his daughter Nicole takes over the management with her brother Yves, who adds successful marketing elixir to the house. Nicole and Valerie Moncuit are the two generations who today run the family business with a firm hand of quality from vine to bottle. 

In this millennium, the family has built a new, modern winery to honour the wings of history. The place and the raw materials are the focus: everything is done by hand, which means that every bottle gets full attention. The new winery allows the family to control the quality and development of each parcel through to blending. This has also meant that the wines get even better publicity than before. Now with a 2008 vintage with 94 great Vinous points.  

Even champagnes with lower ratings are significantly more expensive than Pierre Moncuits Blanc de Blancs – in fact, in this perspective, you save at least 32% by looking towards Moncuits, even if the quality is rated higher. So here we have a champagne that is on the first step of the ladder in terms of price but much higher in terms of points. It does not take much imagination to see this imbalance changing.

Rarewine Invest's Opinion

Interest in Pierre Moncuits is growing, and there are several reasons for this. It is partly because they produce high quality champagne, and partly because they produce in small quantities compared to the big champagne giants. An imbalance in supply and demand, as we know, is always a good indication of investment potential. 

Add to this the weighty fact that price is attractive to any investor. So here you get a high rated champagne from Mesnil at a fraction of the price you know from the neighbors in Mesnil-sur-Oger. In fact, it is extremely cheap compared to the champagnes from the same vintage that are awarded the same rating: And in this price range, would anyone even notice if the price rose 20% overnight? Hardly. 

Invest now and get a share of Blanc de Blancs from the oldest vines in Champagne – even from the very best commune in Champagne – in the form of 2008 Champagne at a tremendously attractive price.

Note: You save 22% compared to the cheapest price on wine-searcher.com right now.