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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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2012 Moet Chandon Dom Perignon, Champagne

(Dom Pérignon Brut Millésime (Épernay)) The 2012 Dom Pérignon is a brilliant wine in the making and seems likely to ultimately be judged one of the greatest vintages here in the last quarter century. According to Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon, the wine is close to its ideal cépages of fifty percent each of chardonnay and pinot noir in 2012. The wine is quite a powerful vintage of Dom Pérignon, but with all of the customary elegance and structural chassis of the greatest vintages here and it remains a young wine, brimming with energy and superb depth. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a classic blend of lime, green apple, menthol, stony minerality, discreet botanical tones, gentle smokiness and a topnote of citrus peel. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a great core, superb mineral drive and grip, utterly refined mousse and a long, zesty and beautifully balanced finish. I love how the perfect ripeness of the 2012 vintage is seamlessly interwoven here with a superb girdle of acidity, great minerality and excellent purity, which will end up producing a legendary vintage of this wine. It is certainly approachable out of the blocks, but I would opt to tuck bottles away for at least eight to ten more years before starting to drink the 2012, as there is so much left here to still unfold. (Drink between 2029-2075)John Gilman | 98 JGWhat a magnificent bouquet for this Dom Pérignon 2012! Pastry, a hint of smoke and autolytic notes provide a compelling counterpart to eager yet elegant aromas of citrus (lime, tangerine and kumquat) joined by those of fresh fruit, herbs, liquorice, and menthol. There is even a refreshing note of ivy. The palate is tense, vibrant, and very fresh despite its impressive density, which meets its match with an unending finish. This 2012 incarnates the very essence of Dom Pérignon with such a concentrated degree of intensity, along with a capacity for ageing, that it is surely destined for a second life in a P2 edition. Drinking Window 2021 - 2050.Decanter | 98 DECWonderful elegance and balance to this Dom Pérignon with cooked apple, lemon and hints of white pepper and salt. It’s medium-bodied with really fine bubbles and balance. Spicy at the end. So wonderfully fresh, linear and long. Racy and elegant. A DP that invites to drink right now. All about finesse. Tension, too, with precise phenolics and bright acidity on the back palate. Subtle energy. Drinkable now, but will develop beautifully in the bottle.James Suckling | 97 JSThe 2012 Dom Pérignon is a dense, powerful wine. I am almost shocked by its vinous intensity and raw, unbridled power. The 2012 reminds me of the 2003, but with more finesse and not quite as pushed. Mildew, rain and frost were challenges and resulted in low yields, something that was further compounded by warm, dry weather that concentrated the fruit even more. Those qualities result in a dense Dom Pérignon endowed with real phenolic intensity. It is one of the most reticent young Doms I can remember tasting, I wouldn’t even think of opening a bottle for at least a few years. (Originally published in May 2021)Antonio Galloni | 97 AGThe 2012 Dom Pérignon is developing very nicely on cork, exhibiting a complex bouquet of pear, confit citrus fruits, honeycomb, buttered toast, iodine and nuts framed by a deft touch of youthful reduction. Full-bodied, rich and muscular, with a layered core of fruit and a pillowy mousse, it’s a vinous, vibrant Champagne that concludes with a saline finish.Robert Parker Wine Advocate | 96 RPThis eloquent Champagne has an enticing waft of Mandarin orange on the nose that continues on the palate, which is layered with flavors of crushed blackberry and cassis, toast, chopped almond, graphite and oyster shell. A bright, finely-knit and harmonious version, with a lovely, raw silk-like mousse, and a lasting, expressive finish. Drink now through 2037.Wine Spectator | 96 WS

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