Chandon India

CEO

Rajesh Dixit

Creation date

2014

Headquarters

Moët Hennessy India, 1903, 19th Floor, Indiabulls Finance Centre – Tower 2, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road, Mumbai 400 013

IdentityCHANDON INDIA

Nashik, in the Western Ghats mountain range, is where you’ll find the youngest Chandon sibling.
India is our wild card and our latest new frontier.In 2010, Tony Jordan, Chef winemaker at Chandon Australia set off to learn about India’s emerging viticultural regions, from Bangalore in the south to Himachal Pradesh in the north. India has no long wine tradition, no terroirs with centuries of form. Its climate is tropical, with fierce summers and torrential monsoon rains.Tony Jordan finally homed in on a terroir around Dindori, Nashik, 200km northeast of Mumbai. The first grapes – Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir – were bought in February 2011 and vinified in rented equipment and tanks at a local winery. Chandon India was officially launched with the release of the first cuvées in January 2014, and our winery was opened in April 2016.

I’m the youngest head winemaker in the Chandon family. I was born in Nashik, so I have lived and breathed wine from an early age. I have also studied and been involved in winemaking in France, Portugal, New Zealand, the USA and Brazil before coming back home to Nashik.
The challenge, here, was to produce a sparkling wine in a sub-tropical climate that met Chandon's high quality standards, and to build a winery that we could be proud of. And we did it.
The best part of working with Chandon has been the exchange of ideas. Some of my colleagues around the world have been working for 30, 40 years for the brand. If I have a discussion for an hour with those guys I can tap into that experience.

Kaushal Khairnar

Chief winemaker

2014
DATE OF FOUNDATION OF CHANDON INDIA
600
METERS IS THE AVERAGE ALTITUDE OF OUR VINEYARDS
2020
CHANDON ROSÉ VOTED BEST INDIAN SPARKLING WINE@ CSWWC, CHAMPAGNE & SPARKLING WINE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020

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CHANDON ROSÉ
Fruity and delicate. A 100% Shiraz rosé sparkling wine, sophisticated and delicate. Intense aromas of ripe cherries, red fruits and soft grapefruit lead to a rich, creamy, persistent finish with subtle hints of guava and rose-petal pot pourri.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT OUR TABLE

Chandon India’s spectacular winery is set in 21 acres in the picturesque Nashik foothills on the outskirts of Dindori.This is ancient ground with a wealth of temples and traditional structures, so a sympathetic approach was needed. Cue a colonnaded exterior that’s a contemporary take on the area’s hill-station architecture, yet belies an ultra-modern, hi-tech facility within.The journey by road from Mumbai is one that many stressed city-dwellers are happy to make for a truly relaxing experience and the chance to acquire new wine knowledge.

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FUTURE

At Chandon India, we are involved in a lot of work on sustainability, the care for the environment and socially beneficial practices. We are keeping our chemical use as low as it can possibly be, using natural organic fertilizer to keep our soils healthy.Much of our water is sourced from ground storage and we recycle it all. We are involved in lots of education initiatives in the local area on waste recycling and keeping the waterways clean.The sun can be relied on; thus 20 – 25%of our energy comes from our 150kW rooftop solar installation.There’s always more to do, and we at Chandon India are always on the look out to better serve Mother Nature.

OUR EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS

Sophie Gourbat-Raimbault is an agricultural engineer and a graduate of ESSEC Business School. She joined Hennessy as a trainee in 2002. Since then, she has risen through the ranks to become Safety and Environment Manager, a job in which the strength of her convictions can come to the fore.

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Moët Hennessy is the Wines & Spirits division of LVMH, owning renowned wine estates through "LVMH Vins d'Exceptions". With its twenty seven internationally renowned Maisons for the richness of their terroirs, the quality of their products and the craftsmanship savoir-faire with which they are created, Moët Hennessy has been committed, for many years, to its environmental and social program, Living Soils Living Together.Drink responsibly.