Surprisingly, Moët is pronounced with a hard 't' and not a silent 't' as is typical for most of the French language. You could pronounce Moët as mo-wet or even moh-et, but it's definitely not moh-way.
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In 1833, the company was renamed Moët et Chandon after Pierre-Gabriel Chandon de Briailles, Remy Moët's son-in-law, joined the company as a partner of Jean-Remy Moët, Claude Moët's grandson. Following the introduction of the concept of a vintage champagne in 1840, Moët marketed its first vintage in 1842.
Brut is a short word, so the T is pronounced. Other examples of this are the words “sept” (seven), “ouest” (west), “pat” (stalemate), and many others.
Silent G words
For whatever reason, the letter G likes to stay quiet when it is paired up with the letter N. Examples include gnaw, gnarly, gnostic, gnat, gnash, gnome, champagne, cologne, align, assign, benign, sign, feign, foreign, and reign.
The Veuve Clicquot phonetic spelling is “Vuv Klee-koh”. “Veuve,” which means “widow” in French is pronounced “Vuv” or “Verv”. Clicquot, which is a family name, is pronounced “Klee-koh.” The name of this Champagne House refers to its visionary matriarch, the Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin.
One of the biggest names in the luxury Champagne sphere, a bottle of Moët & Chandon is popped every second somewhere in the world.
While Claude Moët was born in France in 1683 and his vineyard is in France, his family was of Dutch heritage. Over the generations, they kept the original pronunciation of their family name, and in Dutch, the 't' is not silent.
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct pronunciation") or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
Silent (g)
In some words borrowed from Romance languages, it may appear within a word, as in “champagne”, where it originally denoted the phoneme ŋ. An exception is the acronym GNU.
The Moët name is noble.
The title carried on to 1743, when their descendent, the wine trader Claude Moët, founded Maison Moët in Épernay, his wine trading territory.
Dom Pérignon is owned by Moët & Chandon, although it's considered a separate Champagne house.
For Lyon-based Caroline Conner, a virtual wine teacher at Wine Dine Caroline and a Master of Wine candidate, if pressed to choose between the two, Moët & Chandon would be her choice: “It's a crisper style and cheaper than Veuve,” she says.
4. Re: Pronunciation of Reims? Franco and Nealrover are right - it is something like "ranse". French friends warned us beforehand and we also had it drummed into us by an elderly French lady who used to live there!
3. Veuve Clicquot Means Widow Clicquot. When translated from French “Veuve Clicquot” means “widow Clicquot”. Madame Clicquot became the “veuve clicquot” after just 7 years of marriage to the heir of the champagne house.
The “p” in “receipt” is silent.
F. While some people do in fact pronounce the second f in fifth, the first pronunciation given in our dictionary is the one that omits it. Overall, however, f is to be commended for its performance generally. We'd give it an A, if we were on speaking terms with that letter.
“Yes” I replied, “Spaghetti bolOGnese,” wherein she laughed for quite an unnecessarily long time and informed me the “G” was silent. “It's bol-o-nayse,” she said, saying it phonetically.