Kate Moss and Natalie Portman Gathered at This Picturesque Château to Toast 150 Years of Moët & Chandon’s Brut Impérial

Kate Moss and Natalie Portman Gathered at This Picturesque Château to Toast 150 Years of Moët & Chandon’s Brut Impérial

It was popped aboard the inaugural flight of the Concorde, it fueled the revelry at Studio 54, and it’s been splashed into coupes and flutes at some of history’s most legendary parties. For 150 years, the world has celebrated with Moët & Chandon’s Brut Impérial Champagne but last night, it was time to toast Champagne itself. For the bubbly’s anniversary, an A-list crowd was lured to Épernay, France, for a fete at Château de Saran.

“Moët & Chandon was first created in 1743, so it was a long time after they created the Brut Impérial as a shift from the sweet wines to something more modern,” LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault explained to the lucky 120 guests who had traipsed from Paris aboard the Orient Express earlier in the day. “I think the beauty of Moët & Chandon is precisely this mix of modernity and tradition.”

Once all arrived in Épernay (a commune in the country’s Champagne region), they found there was much more to celebrate—the night was a two-fold gathering that also marked the reveal of Château de Saran, the ancestral home of the Moët family, situated above rolling acres of sun-kissed vines. Following a 5-year renovation, the 11-bedroom maison, filled with wildflowers and a string quartet for the evening, will soon play host to discerning, Champagne-swilling travelers who will no doubt flock to the house that once played host to royalty and heads of state. “This is my first time in Champagne,” Uma Thurman, in Dior, told Vogue as we toured the home along with Natalie Portman and Kate Moss, who wore an appropriately Champagne-hued jumpsuit sourced from a vintage shop earlier in the day. “There’s a beautiful spirit here tonight, and this is an incredible, historic place.”

The cocktail hour dutifully gave way to a seated dinner, housed nearby inside a strikingly modern, mirrored structure set among the vineyard, where guests were greeted with hundreds of coupe glasses, piled high into rows of overflowing pyramids. Four courses of seafood-centric dishes, created by the Michelin-minted duo, chefs Dominique Crenn and Yannick Alléno, were served with wine pairings, which included a Moët & Chandon Grand Vintage 2009, chosen in homage to the year Mirka and Roger Federer were married.

“When you win, you fill the trophies with Champagne and it smashes in your face,” Federer told us, alongside his wife and a hungry horde of flashbulbs. “But tennis is not much of a spraying Champagne sport, and maybe we have to change that."

And if this all wasn’t enough opulence for one evening, the house lights were lowered as guests were directed to look toward a transparent wall, where a fireworks display erupted in the adjacent fields. It was then left to crooner Freya Ridings to close out the evening from her grand piano. “I’ve never had to play after an incredible fireworks display like that before,” she told Vogue with a laugh while enjoying a post-performance libation. “How do you possibly beat that?”

Originally Appeared on Vogue