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Dom Pérignon

Dom Pérignon

Dom Pérignon

Dom Pérignon - An Alliance of Ripeness, Vibrancy, Lightness and Intensity

You have certainly heard of Dom Pérignon, but have you ever personally popped a bottle? A glass of the finest vintage Dom sipped out of a crystal glass provides such a luxurious and hedonistic experience for your nose and taste buds, that you will never forget the moment.

Dom Pérignon Champagne History

Dom Pérignon is made by Moët & Chandon, a venerable Champagne house that produces Dom as one of its prestige cuvée. The Dom champagne originates from the 17th century and got its name by the monk Dom Pierre Pérignon. 

Dom Pierre Pérignon came from a family of eight children in the Champagne region of France. Pérignon’s family owned a few vineyards, so he was familiarized with the process of winemaking. Pérignon lived in the Abbey of Hautvillers, and was also a cellar master. Thanks to his hard work, the abbey doubled its vineyard size. Pérignon’s religious beliefs and philosophy of life ignited his dreams of creating “the best wine in the world.” today known as the famous Dom Pérignon!

While this remarkable monk didn’t invent the famous Dom wines (as the myth suggests), Pérignon made essential improvements to the method of producing champagne wines. The Abbey of Hautvillers, the monastery where Pérignon lived and spent most of his life is today the prestigious Moet & Chandon champagne house.

Dom Pérignon Style

The process of creating Dom wines still remains a mystery, but we know that Dom Pérignon is made from grapes sourced from Grand Cru vineyards of Champagne (both from the Côte des Blancs and sub-regions of Montagne de Reims), and the First Growth sites of Hautvillers.

The Dom champagne is always a blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. While the percentages in Dom bottles change from vintage to vintage, the wine is always based on these two key types of grapes, typically between 50/50 and 60/40 favoring either Pinot Noir or Chardonnay. Making white wine from red grapes and blending the grapes is what makes a Dom champagne so superior and unique.

Dom Pérignon Vintages

Dom Pérignon is always a vintage champagne that must age for a minimum of 7 years in a bottle before release. This time-aging on lees gives the wine complexity and richness. The vintage Dom is a truly outstanding champagne, featuring intense flavors of fruit, oak, and leesy notes from its years of aging in a bottle. The overall balance of ripeness, vibrancy, and lightness, the perfect concentration of different textures, plus the aromatic intensity, make for a striking tasting experience that will excite and pull out all your senses in different directions.

How the Best Dom Perignon Vintages Develop?

Once you’re finished with your drink, and the guests have left, it’s incredibly easy to slip into deep, intense contemplation. The question that hovers above a Dom wine is always the same – “How was this perfection achieved?”

The answer is almost always different, however, and it depends on a staggering amount of factors. In nearly all cases, you can spot very clear differences between different vintages of the same Dom Pérignon. The differences between Dom vintages can occur due to that year’s weather conditions, geological differences between one vineyard and another, the ever-changing and innovative methods used to nurture and collect grapes, and so much more.

2008 Dom Pérignon Vintage vs. 2006 Dom Pérignon Vintage

For example, in 2008, the weather wasn’t exactly what you’d call ideal for making a Dom champagne, with grey, overcast skies, and noticeably less heat. However, in a miraculous turn of events, the weather cleared up right before harvest took place, bringing healthy north-eastern winds and helping the winemakers deliver what is considered one of Dom Pérignon’s strongest recent performances.

The 2008 Dom champagne boasts a stunning, luminous aromatic bouquet, with a complex and compelling combination of stone fruit, zesty citrus, and delicate, lush white flowers. As the 2008 Dom unfolds in your glass, the aromatics turn towards a cozy, warm spectrum, featuring notes of spice and roasted wood. Once it reaches the palate, the wine captivates your mouth and mind with a well-balanced, beautifully-structured drinking experience, where most of the show is stolen by the potent, pronounced fruit and a slender, minimalistic purity. The finish is delightful and expansive, demonstrating playful energy that lures you back in for another sip.

Compare that to the 2006 Dom champagne vintage, whose incredibly hot and dry climate conditions weren’t working in the grapevines’ best interest. During the initial period of champagne aging, the 2006 Dom was almost entirely characterized by a strong, ripe fruit presence, without too much character and nuance to speak of. Even from those conditions, the 2006 Dom champagne came out like a blockbuster and continues to capture the hearts and minds of wine lovers around the world today.

On the nose, the 2006 Dom champagne demonstrates exceptional purity, and a light, airy brightness, like a fragrant spring breeze in the countryside. The wonderful floral throughline is complemented perfectly by a warm, almost nostalgic essence of candied fruit, hay, and toasted aromatics. On the palate, the succulent, seductive nature of the Dom Pérignon is brought to the forefront, with stunning fruity potency and incredibly silky textures. As you approach the finish, a slightly bitter dose of saline, oceanic presence puts a spell on your mind, as though you were enjoying an expansive, vast ocean view from the top of a cliff.

Dom Pérignon - A Pure Delight Both for Collectors and Champagne Enthusiasts

Those among us with the privilege of being able to collect wines know that a wonderful wine shines brightest when you share it with the people you love the most. A stunning bottle of top-quality Dom Perignon is not only a great conversation piece, but a way to experience cultural enlightenment, and a connection to a more wholesome, natural lifestyle, the kind we dream about when we imagine mountain cottages and countryside mansions.

Each Dom Pérignon bottle is like a snapshot of its motherland and the year of its birth. It’s not too difficult to notice unique aspects of the region’s terroir or imagine the amount of hard work and dedication it took to create such a flawless elixir.

Every second spent drinking a bottle of Dom opens a new window into a different time, and this nostalgia can be quite infectious when combined with a group of beloved guests.

People who love fine cuisine often find themselves enjoying a tasteful wine pairing to go along with said food. Great wines reward creativity and culinary experience, so don’t be shy to combine a Dom champagne with a variety of food pairings.

For starters, we recommend pairing a lovely Dom champagne with a wide variety of fine cheeses, as well as olive oil and hearty meat-based dishes. Share a taste of wine history with the ones that matter the most.




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2006 Moet Chandon Dom Perignon, Champagne

This is very lively and vibrant with a dense and rich center palate. Lots of complexity and balance with pastry, sliced lemon and light dried mango. Full yet racy and intense. A beautiful center palate. Linear. Shows potential for aging but so good right now.James Suckling | 97 JSThe 2006 Dom Pérignon is a beautifully balanced, harmonious Dom Pérignon that strikes an incredibly appealing stylistic middle ground. Rich, voluptuous and creamy, the 2006 shows off fabulous intensity in a style that brings together the ripeness of 2002 with the greater sense of verve and overall freshness that is such a signature of the 2004. Bass notes and a feeling of phenolic grip on the finish recall the 2003, as the Pinot Noir is particularly expressive today. After an irregular summer that saw elevated temperatures in July followed by cooler, damp conditions in August, more favorable weather returned in September, pushing maturation ahead and leading to a long, protracted harvest. The 2006 falls into the family of riper, more voluptuous Dom Pérignons, but without veering into the level of opulence seen in vintages such as 2002.Vinous Media | 97 VMA wine that surpassing the 2000, the 2006 Dom Perignon offers beautiful stone fruits, toasted hazelnuts, citrus blossom, and brioche. It shows the richer side of the 2006 vintage with plenty of richness, yet it has bright acidity, a tight, reserved style, and a great finish, it just needs time.Jeb Dunnuck | 96 JDThe 2006 Dom Pérignon comes from a very rich vintage with an early ripeness that brought a lot of aromatic maturity. The white-golden prestige cuvée contains a bit more Chardonnay than Pinot Noir and opens with a deep and seductive, pretty accessible nose with intense yet fresh fruit aromas of pineapples, with peaches and tangerines. Lively and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, unusually aromatic and fruity DP with a long and tension-filled expression.Robert Parker Wine Advocate | 96 RPA graceful, minerally version, featuring rich notes of smoke, mandarin orange peel and chalk that lead to subtle accents of crème de cassis, toasted almond, espresso and star anise on the fine, creamy mousse. Seamlessly knit, with citrusy acidity leaving a mouthwatering impression on the finish. Drink now through 2031.Wine Spectator | 95 WS(Dom Pérignon Brut (Moët et Chandon)) The 2006 version of Dom Pérignon is another wine that probably owes its existence to the very real success that Richard Geoffroy realized with the 2003 vintage and the willingness to more fully explore each vintage as a possible release of this bottling. 2006 is not a great vintage in Champagne, but the ’06 Dom Pérignon has turned out beautifully, offering up an almost exotic nose of peach, mirabelle, chalky soil tones, a touch of menthol, saline mineral elements and again, a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is full-bodied and already wide open in personality, with a good core, a lovely synthesis of fruit and minerality, sound acids and impressive length and grip on the frothy and complex finish. Not a classic DP in the traditional sense, but a very, very worthy DP that beautifully captures the potential of 2006 with precise selection and a great blending palate. It will not prove to be a particularly long-lived vintage of this wine, but it is drinking beautifully already and will provide plenty of pleasure during its plateau of maturity. (Drink between 2018-2035)John Gilman | 94 JGA noticeably reduced nose still manages to reveal the underlying yeast characters. This is clearly very young and tight (and particularly so in mag format) as the effervescence is fine but still quite compact and the flavors are equally backward before culminating in a powerful, focused and lingering finish. This is a vintage of Dom that is indisputably built-to-age and it's going to need plenty of it as it's not really all that pleasurable at the moment. This isn't to say no pleasure but the 2006 reminds me a bit of the 1988 at the same juncture and for those among you who remember that great wine in its youth, you'll know that it was almost 20 years before it fully blossomed. I suspect that the 2006 is going to follow a similar path in its evolution which is to say that plenty of patience is going to be required before it's fully ready.Burghound | 93 BHContrary to received wisdom, 2006 is presented as a more difficult vintage than 2005, with low acidity and a high pH provoking doubts as to the harmony and integrity of the wine’s finish. The lengthy yeast maturation proved redemptive however. The wine is a touch milky, with butterscotch then mango and a gentle hint of brioche, its acidity bright, linear and poised. The autolytic legacy informs the finish and leaves an enigmatic savoury note, itself underwriting inherent complexity. A charming flirt, happy to give the spittoons a night off.Decanter | 93 DEC

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2006 Moet Chandon Dom Perignon Rose, Champagne (Rose)

The Dom Perignon Rosé 2006 is simply amazing. Notes of raspberry, spices and mint jump from the glass in a seductive combination. The texture in the mouth is of precise, crystalline, laser-like tannins in an opulent style. A very great success in a vintage that was not always easy in Champagne.Decanter | 98 DECThe 2006 Dom Pérignon Rosé is every bit as captivating as it was last year, maybe even more so. At times powerful, but in other moments finessed, the 2006 constantly changes in the glass, revealing a different shade of its personality with every taste. Perhaps most importantly, the 2006 seems to have gained a level of precision and pure sophistication it did not show last year, when it was quite a bit less put together. Back then, the 2006 was a wine of tremendous potential; today that potential is starting to be realized. Quite simply, the 2006 Dom Pérignon Rosé is a magical Champagne. Don’t miss it.Vinous Media | 97+ VMThis graceful 2006 shows lovely freshness, featuring a pronounced note of pink grapefruit granita layered with finely detailed accents of toasted nut, lemon thyme, smoky mineral and crystallized honey. Plushly creamy in texture, with a steely streak of acidity well-knit throughout and firming the lasting, spiced finish. Drink now through 2029.Wine Spectator | 96 WSThe 2006 Dom Pérignon Rosé continues to show very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of bitter orange, dried white flowers, red berries, toast and woodsmoke. On the palate, it's full-bodied, broad and muscular, with all the phenolic structure and depth that one would expect from a rosé that contains more than 20% still red wine, concluding with a sapid and chalky finish. As I wrote earlier this year, this is a vinous, gastronomic rosé that numbers among the decided successes of the 2006 vintage.Robert Parker Wine Advocate | 95 RPThis builds structure and complexity into the gentle ripeness of 2006: The wine’s floral strawberry notes develop with bright energy, the flavors turning toward raspberries, fresh almonds and chalk. It’s pretty great on any vintage terms.Wine & Spirits | 95 W&S

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As low as $459.00

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