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Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008

Moët & Chandon, Champagne, France

Moët & Chandon
Champagne France
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  • 15 Pros of
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  • 100 BEST CHAMPAGNE 2022
    Best vintage Rosé

  • Country ranking ?

    98

  • Producer ranking ?

    5

  • Decanting time

    20min

  • When to drink

    now to 2035

  • Food Pairing

    sushi

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Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008 released

‘It’s not even an evolution, but a revolution between 2000 and today,’ said Dom Pérignon chef de cave Vincent Chaperon. ‘We changed a lot of things: the selection of plots, the way we are cultivating the vines, how we’re pushing the maturity of the grapes.’

The final blend of the latest rosé vintage, which contains 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay, features 10% Pinot Noir red wine, which is low c...

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The Story

Dom Pérignon Rosé is a tribute to Pinot Noir. To work with Pinot Noir continually requires excellence and humility. In that regard, Dom Pérignon Rosé is a paradox to the point of contradiction as it is the perfect balance of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Although it took over ten years to reach the light of day, the color of Dom Pérignon Rosé dares to express all the tension between youth and maturity, between exhibition and restraint.
Dom Péri...

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Wine Information

2008 was dominated by grey, overcast skies – an exception in a decade characterized by bold, generous sunshine. Spring and summer rought the same lack of sunlight and absence of high temperatures. It was September that saved the vintage, belatedly and miraculously. Just when the harvest was getting underway (on September 15), the weather conditions were finally perfect: blue skies and prolonged north-northeasterly winds. Picking was spread out...

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Vintage 2008

2008 -The Champagne vintage set to make history!

A first taste of leading winemakers’ 2008 champagnes reveals a miraculous vintage, bubbling with potential, which – whisper it – might just prove the greatest in living memory.

2008 was not, by any standards, a vintage year for the financial world. And for the greater part of it, 2008 was a pretty poor year for Champagne too: spring was freezing, summer gloomy and overcast. But then, aroun...

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Written Notes

The 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is a masterpiece born from a unique vintage. Despite a cool and overcast spring and summer, the vintage was saved by a sun-drenched September, allowing the grapes to reach an extraordinary balance of freshness and ripeness. The 2008 is one of the best recent Champagne vintages.

On the nose, it opens with delicate aromas of wild strawberry, raspberry, layered with hints of rose petals and subtle spice. The palate is vibrant and energetic, with bright red fruit flavors, a creamy texture, and a pronounced minerality. The wine’s precision and high-toned acidity provide impeccable structure, leading to a long, elegant finish with lingering notes of pink grapefruit and toast. A stunningly balanced and graceful rosé.

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  • 98p

Now you must take my tasting note with a pinch of salt as it is still a long way to go before launch. When we met in May 2021, the wine was a little too recently disgorged and disorderly without full harmony. However, undeniably a great wine with a monstrous and monumental structure where the champagne was deliberately drawn towards Burgundy in style. Hardly any detail is really in the right place yet, but everything is there in a beautiful chaos. Strikingly different from the white version from the same year which is lighter and more feminine classic in nature. Here in the rosé, an almost barrel basic note of the smoke from a spring fire dominates together with notes of beetroot, orange nougat, figs and ripe strawberries in fine contrast with notes from the sea. Enormous force as a salt-sprinkled ocean with notes from the forest in the form of pine trees, jacaranda, teak and undergrowth. The acidity is monumental, as is the amount of chalky mineral, but still the senses are overflowing with rich cocky broad-shouldered and loud chords in all sorts of colorful splendor. Oh​,​ how I long to to taste this colossus again when the edges have been sanded down a bit. Most of all, I long to see what Dom Pérignon's world class chefs pick up for food with this challenging wine next time I'm in Château Saran or Le Trianon on Avenue de Champagne.

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  • 93p

Salmon. Apples, lemons, minerals, fruit driven, intense, juicy nose. Brioche nose. Fresh acidity, rounded, apples, peach, minerals, red fruits, vinous, elegant texture, long. 95

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  • 95p

Rosé colour with slightly copper coloured hue. Very refined character with aroma reminiscent of tangerine zest, raspberries and red currants, peony, Piment d'Espelette and white pepper. Hints of zest in the background. On the palate refined with depth and wonderful length, lively character with perfectly matured flavour, brioche, ripe pink grapefruit, grapefruit peel, and discreet spiciness, red berries in the background. A well structured and very appealing rosé. 

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  • 98p

Spring and summer were generally cool and overcast but the year was rescued by a beautiful September, but was it enough? Harvest began on 15 September. Red wines came from Champs de Linotte in Hautvillers (close to the seat of Dom P) and Vauzelles in Aÿ. 
First bottle: Pale to mid salmon pink (much deeper than a typical Provence rosé). There's some note that's mineral or iodine or oyster shell on the nose of this. Then we segue into something floral – rose petals? even candied rose petals. This doesn't have quite the substance and undertow of the 2012 and 2003 P2 reviewed alongside. Perhaps it will develop it, but this bottle seems a bit simple. I will open a back-up sample to check it out and ensure this is not a cork effect. There doesn't seem to be any TCA on the nose but there is a slight shortage of fruit and no great follow-through on the palate.
Second bottle: This bottle has more fruit on the palate but it still doesn't have real zest and tension. And it rather falls away on the finish. Mind you 2008 was a very grey, cloudy year.

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  • 90p

This shows incredible depth of fruit with strawberry, cherry and phenolics. Full-bodied and layered with an incredible, three-dimensional element to the wine. This is so transparent and dynamic with dark fruit, yet it remains vivid and bright. Refined and precise, it goes on and on. Really savory, fresh and incredibly pinot-noir-like. What a wine. 13 years of maturation in the bottle. So drinkable now, but it will age for many years ahead.

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  • 99p

Medium intense, copper red colour. Super expressive, complex and rich with classic DP notes of spearmint and toastiness. Dry, crisp and vivid palate has immense concentration. Lovely toasty and strawberry flavours escort the lingering finish. JL 96p (Oct 2021)

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Reims, Champagne

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