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  • Country ranking ?

    541
  • Producer ranking ?

    3
  • Decanting time

    No
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Seafood, Salads & Consommes

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Vintage 1988

CHAMPAGNE: From this year, the most classic and refined champagnes were producedChampagnes are long-lived and mature slowly to their peak.

Winter and spring were fairly mild. Inflorescences began in good weather in June. Already during the next month, the cloud masses swarmed to the Champagne province. Finally, the sky broke right before harvest. The harvest remained smaller than in the previous year. Even though the weather was unstable,...

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1988 Dom Ruinart Vinothèque 96 97 Surprisingly developed and generous already, with a massive tropical opulence of mango and orange. There is also a lovely attack here, and a sophisticated, multifacetted, long aftertaste to follow on into the 2000s. A super Dom Ruinart! Of course very toasted in the same style as Dom Pérignon although as a blanc de blancs. Now a seductive acacia tone like that of the 79 has appeared and the wine is fabulously beautiful. Still too immature in the magnum.
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Reims, Champagne

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