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  • Country ranking ?

    988
  • Producer ranking ?

    118
  • Decanting time

    10min
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    A cold dashi broth with clams

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These four vintages of Dom Pérignon provide a fascinating snapshot of how the house has performed in recent years. The 1999 Dom Pérignon is a little flabbier than the 2000. Smoke, toastiness, tar and ripe fruit emerge from the glass in a generous, expansive style. The 1999 offers more body than the 2000 but the aromas and flavors are less well-articulated. This is a relatively simple Dom Pérignon, yet the wine possesses outsta...

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The Story

 At the end of the 17th Century, Dom Pierre Pérignon stated his ambition to create ‘the best wine in the world’.  On 29 September 1694, Dom Pierre Pérignon wrote that his mission was to create “the best wine in the world.” He dedicated himself to improving viticulture techniques, perfecting the art blending grapes from different crus, and introduced the gentle and fractional pressing to obtain white wine from black grapes.Ever since, the House...

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Vintage 1999

A difficult start to the year led to early budbreak. There were some damaging hailstorms in early May, but the frost ultimately stayed away. The summer was overall warm and thanks to the hot and dry August, the grapes looked promising for the harvest. However, a damp September challenged producers and dilution was an issue for some. The 1999 harvest that started on September 15th produced a large yield (12,989 kg/ha) of sweet grapes that resul...

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Tasting note

color

Light, Straw and Clear

ending

Long, Pure and Lingering

flavors

Toasty, Creamy, Mineral, Herbs, White fruits and Nutty

nose

Open, Charming, Fresh and Complex

recommend

Yes

taste

High in Acidity, Low alcohol content, Balanced, Youthful, Light, Fresh, Fruity, Elegant and Dry

Verdict

nice but not special and Fine

Written Notes

An absolutely fabulous, great, broad-shouldered costume with juicy exotic fruitiness and an almost 76-like sensation of essence and fullness of body. A real fruit bomb that is going to give pleasure to many generations of wine-lovers. The funny thing is that this wine does not have even a trace of Dom Pérignon's typically toasted character as yet, despite its sweet mellowness. The most important explanation for this is probably the brief time since being disgorged, but also, paradoxically enough, the wine's gorgeous oiliness that makes it difficult for the toasted aromas to elbow their way out.
  • 93p
Pale lemon yellow, quite a different attitude, lemon, lime, flint, tight, sea front, minerals and shell fish. Fresh acidity, elegant mousse, long. A few hours later, openeing up tremedously, refined and layered. Loved this one since day one. 94
  • 94p
Bright, yellow colour with refined small bubbles. Lovely toasty nose with creamy, lemony aromas and delicate complex yeasty touch with peppermint. The taste is very fresh. It is crisp, mineral, moderately light-bodied, complex, refined, balanced, and showing oily structure with fresh peppermint flavours in the lingering long finish. This wine has been tasted 4 times in one month now and has shown extraordinary vividness for Dom Pérignon. Truly a great wine – drinking lovely now but will keep and evolve for next 20 years!
  • 92p
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Information

Origin

Reims, Champagne

Vintage Quality

Above Average

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

No Potential

Fake factory

None

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Grand Vintage

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Vinothèque

Vintage

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