Classic Dom notes but with a yougurty tang. Possibly a flaw but really enhanced the experience for me. Overall a much more unique Dom than I’m used to. Plenty of fizz and no signs of decline.
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Drank at friends as the clock struck Midnight and the 12-minute fireworks display began over Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Almost identical notes as the bottle we took to share with friends in Seattle over Christmas. Gorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still a lovely indulgence. Has a lovely final resonance and reverberance at the back of the head on the finish. Happy New Year!
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Gorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still lovely over Christmas holiday eggs Benedict late breakfast. Has a lovely back end resonance and reverberance in the back of the head on the long finish. A nice way to say thank you to our friends who hosted us over a chilled Christmas in Seattle along with Angela cooking the Eggs Bebedict for them.
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One of the best champagnes I've had; wine is at its peak, but certainly has a few more years. Fine bubbles, apple and pear in the nose; delicate on the palate with a long finish. Highly recommended
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From magnum. Half was decanted 45 minutes before pairing with a mixed cheese and charcuterie board. A medium+ yellow in the Riedel Vinum XL pinot noir glass with flashes of gold. Served a bit too cold, but still striking toasted brioche and nuttiness on the nose, with soft meyer lemon and heaps of slate. Quite structured straight from the bottle, with still very good acidity. The shocker was visiting the decanted portion. Much more obvious nose, this time with a striking note of freshly minced ginger, with all the other notes amped up. Everyone around the table noted these exquisite changes. Beautiful performance on the celebratory occasion. The fourth or fifth time we've had this vintage, and it bested all those previously poured from 750ml bottles. One magnum remaining - when should we open it?
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Tasted double blind. This DP is in its prime, with a tertiary complexity that compensates for the lack of depth the vintage offered. At its best, after some time in the glass, it scored 95 points. While the wine still has a nice freshness, the bubbles are slowly disappearing. So I don't think it can improve for much more than another 5 years.
TN: Intriguing nose with caramel and burnt sugar notes, citrus freshness and some salty notes. Medium+ expressive and intense. The palate is beautiful with some red fruit notes and even more salty minerality along with the caramel and burnt sugar notes. Not super complex but very enjoyable with very fine, slightly fading bubbles but a good acid backbone to keep it fresh, the texture lacks a bit of softness and the wine remains a bit more angular than I like. It doesn't have the oomph of the best years, but it's well balanced and at its peak.
Decanting: Good from the start, no extensive decanting needed. However, the best sips were the last ones towards the end of the evening.
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Burned sugar, salted caramel and nice minerality. Fruit profile includes pear and raisin-like dark grapes. At the same time lightly built but with good tension and fine perlage. This felt nicely mature without really showing any nutty oxidation notes. This reminded me somewhat of a more mature 2009, more limited in terms of intensity and complexity, but still well made and offering plenty of drinking pleasure.
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Last of the bottles, and I’m sad to see them go. This is in beautiful shape - fine bubbles, lightly stewed apples on the nose and the palate and very good length. Opened and decanted and then drank over the course of an hour or so. I have a few P2s left from the same year and look forward to those but, as with the standard wine, I don’t think there’s much of a rush.
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Drank over a leisurely afternoon in the run-up to New Year's Eve. Advanced yellow gold colour. Almost no mousse but still plenty of energetic pinprick bubbles. Appealing bready nose with some nice sea breeze salinity and ozone in the background and yellow meadow flowers. Palate is quite vinious and lacking verve or excitement although a nice saline element emerges with extended time in the glass. However, it carries a surprisingly powerful and long resonance inside the head on the finish. Similar to when last drank from the same case at Chinese New Year (Feb 2021) but a lot less fresh. Confirms my view from then that this is not a vintage to keep but a is good way of moderating drinking down the 2002 and 2008 too quickly. 90 at a stretch.
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Fully nutty bready tones, bubbles still quite exuberant, fruit verging to yellow and a bit bruised, which I mean is lovely not faulty. The acid is a bit low which is the only reason to drink it sooner than later, but otherwise it has the concentration and intensity of flavor to go for many more years
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Nice but frankly disappointing. Corked was “pegged” and wine lacked zip. Bubbles were fine and overall wine was balanced and pleasant. But definitely lacked any “wow” factor.
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Light white and green color of the body. Much light nature tastes, light honey, caramel, and white flowers.
The wine lacks complexity and its body its not to good. No dept in its body and very waterish. This might be the least good Dom Perignon of the all the different vintages of 2000s.
Very young wine, should be stored for at least 10-15 years more! I think this vintage will grow and mature very good in the future.
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A splendid champagne at its peak. Dom Perignon at 22 is about as refined and gorgeous as one could dream of a champagne. Supremely light and refined bubbles, aromas of mature fruits, nuts, honey, flowers and toasted bread in the time frame which shows its age and how beautifully it has taken the years into its body of finest bubbles. Exceptional and certainly memorable.
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Birthday bottle with friends. Smooth, fresh, crisp still, with apple, citrus, brioche and salinity. Medium bodied with enough acidity to remain fresh, this is starting to show it's age, and that's not a bad thing. Showing a bit of a smoky, tertiary layer that doesn't usually show up in the bigger vintages. Overall a good bottle, good friends, and a good time.
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nose- rich, honey, hazlenut mouth - also honey, seems right in its drinking window. It was commented that the vast majority of Dom gets drunk before being ready. Here we have mature while not being tired. A 'happy' wine per S.
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Holiday Champagne Gala (Park Ridge Country Club): In Dom Pérignon flight. Very fun and balanced with good weight, just on the simple side amongst the Dom Pérignon in this flight. Time to drink up. P2 tasted next was really shining tonight.
Still had bubbles and freshness at opening. Apples at the nose and the longer (and warmer) it was open the broader pallet. Rusted, nuts, caramelized sugar, and a very well rounded experience
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A very fine vintage of DP but perhaps without the depth of the best vintages. Still, it's crisp with perfectly judged acidity and excellent intensity on the taut refined finish. Best with a hour of air and clearly with more development ahead at least from magnum. 92+
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Ageless. Smooth, fresh, polished, the balance is unique and perfect, everything in its right place and with perfectly balanced volume. No brown notes like caramel or wet leaves, the wine is fresh, lifted, rich and full palate, perfectly composed. Great at any moment and for 10 years at least. Very good.
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Drank way better than expected. Took about 30 minutes from the initial pop to pick up weight and character. Tons of rich fruit, gorgeous minerality, great balance, and a long finish. Damn, I want more.
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Really good showing but just paled next to a terrific 1995. The 2000 was quite fresh still, in a twilight zone of primary and getting more maturity. Should be very interesting in 5 years.
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Mid gold color. Lively fine bubbles. Complex now with a bit of evolved complex tertiary flavours of dried fruits, honey, creme brulee and grilled nuts, while still fresh with lemon, chalky minerals, pineapple, biscuit and smoky notes. Still have a long way to go.
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Chú Xī (除夕) Dinner at Home for Chinese New Year (Our House, Hong Kong): Opened and drank over a home-made traditional Cantonese New Year dinner at home with friends. Light yellow gold. Bold mousse even in a white wine glass. Nicely lifted oyster shell , saline, minerally, both on nose and palate. Lots of Epsom Salts. Very enjoyable and it continually grew on me with extended time. Not a vintage for the long haul. I would drink this up soon whilst keeping my hands off the 2002 or 2008. 91+.
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Så fort glaset börjar hällas upp så slås man av en käftsmäll med krut. Efter att ha doftat på det fanns det bara ett vin det här skulle kunna vara. Otrolig doft av krut, kakao, grädde. Kraftpaket i munnen, fin syra och många lager som kommer fram samtidigt som glaset värms upp. Gissade DP 02 här då jag tyckte syran påminde mer om 02 än 00. Efter att ha druckit den här ett par gånger de senaste åren så kan jag konstatera hur jäkla bra den dricker just nu. Det är stort, komplext och urtypiskt av Dom Perignon. Kommer säkert förbättras ytterligare men svårt att hålla sig ifrån flaskorna när de är så här bra.
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This might not be the best vintage for DP, but this bottle was in the perfect spot. Light golden color, but still energetic with tiny little bubbles. Just pnp.
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I don’t have a lot of experience of drinking Dom Perignon but this was a beautiful champagne. Rich, smooth and biscuity with tiny bubbles and just the right amount of acidity to keep the balance.
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Popped and poured over a 2 hour period. Medium yellow color, the mousse is subtle and soft. Some oxidation on the nose, but the pleasant yeasty bread or pastry crust variety. Light touch on the palate, lemony with a subtle chalkiness. Good but not exceptional and it appears to be ready to go.
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2000 drank in November 2020. I am not an expert on Dom Perignon's but in my experience, 2000 is in perfect condition now. Beatiful golden color, butter and and some savagning-kind of nose with a version of tertiary notes, fresh acidity, adding green apple in the palate on combination with the nose, good amount of bubbles still.
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I'll admit, I really thought this would be baby killing. Yes - the 2000's don't have the longevity of some vintages, but still, we like our wine old and our champagne the same way and so I was sure that this was going to taste really young. But surprisingly, not really. It was actually drinking incredibly well. Had some good age, some good freshness. I would have called it older than it was and in this instance that is a good thing. A nice way to start the night.
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Last of the magnums, taken from the fridge and decanted and drunk as it warmed. Tiny bubbles. Rich, honey-like smell as it warms and even more so when drinking. Likely, even in in a big bottle, to be right at its peak (but the plateau that follows could easily last another decade). A beautiful wine.
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Plucked right off its peak. Deep golden in the glass with still very persistent bubbles. Nose is showing strong development - brioche, caramel, dried apricots, figs. A richer style of Dom with a sleek string of acid still singing. Medium depth at this point and a slightly short finish. Drink up.
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Deep yellow gold. Aroma of fresh cut hay, butterscotch, mint and vanilla. Palate entry of grapefruit, pips and brioche. Mid-palate with vanilla, mint parsley and caramel. Long finish of butterscotch, lemon, vanilla and ginger. Full body, great sweet and acid balance with long finish, still have a few years to go.
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Nice golden straw yellow with small and slow rising bubbles.
On the nose the 2000 vintage is open and seductive, reaching a nice state of maturity. Alluring smell of apples with a touch of citrus and brioche. Showing some age on the nose, but this will keep well for a number of years. Very textbook Champagne with delicate chalkiness.
No big surprises on the palate corresponding nicely to the nose. Nice mix of apples and mineral driven finish. Showing some age and complexity, but it is not as impressive as the gorgeous 2002. Mid-weight structure, long finish and a beautiful mousse makes the 2000 so inviting now. This wine has a certain roundness to it and lacks slightly in precision, which maybe due to 2000 being a ripe vintage? Don’t be mistaken this is well-made Champagne!
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Very good bottle. Fresh and young. Great mousse, held up for many hours. Mature, expansive nose of rye bread and toast. Palate is full bodied but with plenty of acidity. Not as far from the 2002 as I remember.
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Boxing Day Lunch at Home with Friends (Our House, Hong Kong): Straw-gold colour. Generous but quickly dissipating mousse as served in a wine glass but it easily returns with some swirling. Fruvious and long-lasting beads of microscopic bubbles. Nose is beautifully toasty - brioche, fresh-baked yeasty brown bread, warm straw in a barn. Palate is similar toastiness, but underlaid with a lovely fresh citric acidity, hints of ozone and oyster jus. Heady resonance and good length on the finish. It is eight years since I last opened a bottle from this case and I'm surprised how youthful it still is, which is not what I predicted in 2011. However, it didn't hold up in the glass beyond an hour so I don't think this is a vintage for extended cellaring (although I have extended the 'drink by' date to 2025).
Cork. No formal notes. Light golden colour; relatively youthful. Brioche, lemon, apple, and nuts. A touch musty upon opening, but after some breathing cleared up and gained richness. Mousse persists for a while after pouring. Drinking well. Showing a bit of age, but likely to last another dozen years.
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I always like Dom. My 9 year old son noted some caramel on the nose. His first assessment ever Best Xmas eve ever!! Gonna have him smell Pol ROGER Winston Churchill '02 tomorrow
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During the first hour this was rather closed. A bit flat as well. With air, it opened up nicely with a complex nose with ripe grapefruit, gunpowder and some yeast. Same elements on the palate as well, good acidity with a citrus cest feel. Fairly light and elegant. I would say that this is at or slightly past its peak. (Bottle has been stored in a 12 degree cellar for over a decade before popping today at my 40th birthday).
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Plump and dense. Elderly on opening but got a lot younger with air. Finely dissolved mousse. Roasted nuts, grated ginger, mulled brown-spiced cider. Un grand vin de contemplation complexe et intriguant plutôt qu'attirant sans équivoque. 91-93
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Light gold with a fine mousse. Green apple, honey, brioche, citrus, with still enough acidity to have that fine DP flinty finish. This feels entirely ready now and although I'm not sure it will improve, this should stay here for several more years. Not as big as the '96, 02, or even the '06, but this is really quite good.
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Dinner at Imperial Treasure TPC. Golden straw colored. Mouthfilling with fine mousse, zesty notes of brioche and citrus fruits. Pleasantly evolved, richer, has good weight without the sharp acidity of NV or younger vintage champagnes. More complex than a 2009 DP recently tasted.
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Light golden yellow in colour, showing a little age - very gentle pétillant. Rich, flavoursome brioche nose with light tropical fruit - intense. Palate showing light bubbles, very clear & attractive toastyness - some light citrus (lime) & gentle pineapple. Long, long persistence. Very good & fully mature.
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Dracks under en halvblind provning av Dom Pérignon 00, 02, 03, 06, 08 och 09.
Lite mörkare i färgen än övriga årgångar och långsamma bubblor. Doften var distinkt och mycket men jag hade svårt att sätta ord på det som vanligt. Omdömen från de andra var rostat, mognad, komplex, citrus, nötter, mycket, hög intensitet och utvecklad. Smälte verkligen i munnen, mognad och inte lika besk som de andra flaskorna. Jag gissade på 00 eller 02. Eftermiddagens vinnare då fyra av oss, inklusive jag, hade denna som favorit!
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Sunday/Daughter's (35th) Birthday dinner with family. My last two bottles and showing excellently. Persistent foaming mousse, russet apple, green herb, bready nuances and an almost saline minerality. All perfectly integrated with plenty of zesty acidity for balance. Has broadened out since its last outing in 2016 and is much the better for it. Fully mature and for drinking over next couple of years.
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Drank it the day before new year. At the same time we had a 2003, 2006 and Cristal 2002. The 2000 Dom Perignon was better than expected, the same with the 2003
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Straw in color. Austere nose of bread dough, pears, and hints of apple cider. Tastes of pears, apple, and hints of brioche and straw. Pronounced acidity, light on bubbles, nice mouthfeel. On the decline, but still lovely. Drink now and over next 3 years.
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Jordan's Fine Wine Dinner (Boka - Chicago IL): Good array of orchard fruit aromas and flavors with good+ richness and balance, also good length. Rounded and soft textures, very easy to enjoy right now.
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Dinner with Friends: Various 2000s: The official bottle opened to kick off our celebration of the 2000 vintage. Brief note. Apple and ginger; touch of biscuit. My note doesn't do this justice. For my palate this is at peak. 93-94 pts.
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Annual Piemonte Trip - 2018 Edition; 10/12/2018-10/14/2018 (Piemonte, Italy): From magnum. Proper star factor here and a great way to kick off our launch at Ciau del Tornavento. A year since we had this last and still performing very well. Good ripe feel, vibrant on the palate , yeasty side, light feel and with honey touches on the finish. Elegant as always and super solid. 94
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Lovely crystalline and mineral nose. Fleshy palate with minerals, pear and citrus. Great body. Lacking the extra edge of complexity to take it to the next scoring level.
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Drinking well now in a relatively open knit fleshy style. Toast, minerals, pear, autumn leaves and flowers. Increasing complexity. My sense is though that this will be faster maturing than surrounding vintages like 2002.
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SLDS GC NY Traditional Tasting: Peach, earth, musky florals, lemon and chalk. Good power and punch on the palate, plenty of flavour depth. Really nicely balanced power and length. Drinking really well now.
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UNCONVINCED. Second last bottle of the six I bought a good while ago. In previous years, I thought , maybe I have opened this too soon, and while it has gotten better over time, I still found it disappointing (esp given the price). I would still prefer an NV Bollinger to this, and at parallel price levels, you would have a really nice wine from Bollinger. The overwhelming impression is the acidity, which is great and attractive, but only goes so far. After then I have never detected much fruit or indeed much complexity. This was clearly a good wine (I drank the leftovers as a flat white the next day, and it was good), with good bubbles at 17 years but at 100+ I expect something less subtle.
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Clear pale lemon. A nose of apples, almonds, and a touch of citrus and brioche. Developed(?) Medium(+) acidity, medium(+) body, medium(+) flavour intensity with red apples, lemon zest, cream and almonds on the palate. Medium(+) finish. This has put on some age. Bright and racy on entry, yet nicely rounded in the mouth. Impeccably balanced, and open for business now. But considering the pedigree this could have done with a little more complexity - and at this point, I'm not sure if it's got much more positive development left. That aside it was all in all still very enjoyable.
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Very good and interesting...Clean, well aged, and still fresh. More waxy than nutty, with very bright acidity. Lacked the complexity that I as hoping for after 17 years under cold lockdown. Cant see this getting much better without sacrificing something else. Drink or hold?
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I haven't had this in a while and am pleasantly surprised. It's more of a young adult now, but with classic Dom lines of salinity and smoke, though it's also very citric in character. The structure is unusually pronounced for 2000 and actually clips the length to some degree. There's a dominant backbone of acidity and a slight, nagging confected note on the finish. It's improved since release, but I'll probably hold off on any more bottles for a few years more with the hope that it can still soften some and pick up darker, more textural components.
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Drank to celebrate some good friend's engagement. There is something about Dom where once you get a bit more age to it, it's really something special. A lot more interesting than the younger versions. More complexity. Nicer toast. The bottle went fast and was well enjoyed.
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Enjoyed for wife's birthday. Classic DP, remarkable bead, creamy texture. Elegantly showing its age one of the better DP's I've had recently. Toasted almond, wheat flavors with a dash of fruit. I would say don't hold too long.
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Mark's bottle. Awfully light and delicate at age 17, I wonder if this vintage of DP will ever gain weight and become more interesting. The flavors are light wheat thin with a bit of lemon peel. Pleasant, though. Let's hope for positive development in the long term.
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DP @ Medlar (Medlar, London): Darker initially. Full straw. Ripe and quite open. Seems to broaden and fade with air. Not helped by glass. A touch of mushroom. Just a bit flabby. **** on first taste but settles back to ***1/2 with air. Needs a more traditionally shaped glass.
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Have not had this for a Long while. It developed very well. Really nice structure , tension , acid and body. Not only citrus . There is brioche and nuts . Lovely . Has a Long time to go . No hurry
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Beautiful toasty, crushed rocks, apricots, mint. Very fine with increasing complexity and lovely layering. Won't last as long as the 02 though as this is rounding and maturing sooner. This one is in a pretty good drinking window now in my view.
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We haven't had this wine for 4 years now (Last note a 94 but also a few bad bottles) and we were so happy to see it has blossomed more and is now a top notch wine. Rich and yeasty but with a full polished acidity underlying the wine whoch keeps it fresh and vibrant and with a mineral finish. Its definitely softer on the edges but a wine that will make everyone smile. 94-95
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Medium+ intense nose of apples, honeysuckle with light, ripe melon. Excellent toast/brioche notes. Palate is round with good weight. Ripe acid with lovely tropical notes of melon and pineapple. Fresh in the mouth with good persistence. Feels like it still has room to develop but certainly drinking with aplomb now. Now-2022.
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green/ gold colour Great nose - lemons, oranges, floral notes and lemon rind Lovely little bubbles pop on the tongue like caviar Very creamy texture, rich but also grassy notes - Vincent Chaperon said 'vegetal' also "between fruit and freshness" Long, layered finish, hazlenuts Really excellent Disgorged 2007
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Drinking beautifully. Had the pleasure of enjoying this with friends, accompanied by Delice Bourgogne, Comte 14 mo and duck pate. Lively, delicious, pleasurable - a bit sweeter than expected, vibrant fruit
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Amandes grillées, agrumes, pomme, pêche, arômes tertiaires, anis, réglisse puis floral à la fin. Bulles ultra fines et petite amertume en arrière bouche. À boire.
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Two bottles from my cellar consumed in Sullivans with the Weybridge mafia - closing on Thursday after 30+ years as the proprietors retire. Where are we going to eat on Tuesdays and Friday lunchtimes!? Much as my earlier note of this year, the length of this wine is phenomenal, in the mouth easily outlasting the food consumed and the white wine accompanying it. Excellent but not for very long haul unlike the finest vintages. 92?+
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Third dinner of the L.A. wine trip (Bel-Air, California): Perhaps lacking the verve and layers of more recent vintages such as 2002 and 2004, this wine still held its own. It also didn’t have the overpowering acidity so often seen in younger vintages. Lemon curd, brioche, honeysuckle, and a slight nuttiness round out a very balanced bouquet. And while the acidity is still a bit high, this is a wine that will only get better over the upcoming year.
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Aromas of toast, salted nut, brioche and creme brûlée. Flavors of salted nut, slate, mineral and toast. Ends with a nice finish with a saline note. Not ideal storage on this but showed no ill signs.
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Smells of the sea! Oyster shells. Fresh and lightly fruity nose. Some honey. Creamy and rich on the palate. Some tightness but nice persistence and softens on the palate. Seems to be evolving in the glass to something richer, less tight and softer. Long with a lovely rich aftertaste.
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Vosne 1er Cru Dinner (Nikki's): I have had quite a few bottles of this over the years, and this was probably the best. The 2000 has really developed from a solid but unspectacular DP to become a really nice drop in recent years. The nose had a nice character to it, with creamy aromas along with apple, strawberries and a little spice. Very attractive. What really struck me about this bottle was how fresh and youthful it felt on the palate though - there was a still a refined mousse with a tiny bead, and a lovely brightness to its maturing flavours of strawberries, yellow pear and a little touch of honey. Really fresh I thought. The overt power of the vintage in its youth has dropped off, leaving behind a much more refined, integrated and very delicious mouthful of wine. It got a bit clunkier when left in the glass and warmed up - this is a wine that should be drunk about now and at an appropriately chilled temperature.
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62nd birthday apéritif at home before dinner with family at Pennyhill Park. Fine beaded, excellent appearance. Both full and refined with flavours of russet and cider apples, brioche and dry zesty core. Still quite tight. The extreme length screams quality. Close to its plateau with 5-10 years ahead of it and probably an extra point or two. 92+?+
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Da Magnum. Lemon zest, fiori bianchi e zenzero. Poi tanto calcare lucente, fresco: sensazione di estrema adolescenza. Anche in bocca è ancora giovanissimo, acidità prorompente, tesa e finissima. Al momento il naso è sicuramente più espressivo; mentre in bocca la consistenza e l' allungo sono garantiti più dal pérlage che dagli aromi. Da attendere con fiducia, ma è sempre un aperitivo di gran prestigio!
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A dry style champagne and light bodied....hard to coax much but pleasant enough, starting to have some oxidizing tastes and scents so probably time to drink up.
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Very classic tasting DP. This certainly was showing well this evening, but there were absolutely no indications that it is even remotely tired. I could have held this for years.
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Dorato, finissimo perlage. Naso esemplare di mineralità fumé e gessosa, miele, giandujotto, erbe e fiori di campo, tartufo, croissant, mandorla. Cremoso, ha grandissimo equilibrio, anche se la freschezza non è esemplare
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Tasted in magnum, still rather tight nose with pear and citrus. Fine mousse, elegant and not a big Dom, finish slightly lacking. Perhaps still too young to be consumed?
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Opened for a special occasion too, but I held my tongue and happily enjoyed it, as I didn't want to offend the host. But all I could smell was wet cardboard.
Cheval Blanc and D'Yquem dinner with Pierre Lurton and Bernard Burtschy (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): As Bernard Burtschy pointed out, this was pretty tight. Fresh white fruits, citrus, granny smith, white pepper and mineral. Medium concentration, fine mousse, good acidity and clean medium finish. It is interesting that the 02 has opened up beautifully all of sudden in the last few months where the 00 remains youthful. Also this is more linear/cooler but less concentrated than the 02. For my palate the 02 is superior, about three points higher in general. Still very nice way to start.
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Lemon, melon, so full, fantastic bubbles, thoroughly enjoyable, but horrible QPR. Was thinking of a better Champagne at less than half the price. wedding gift!
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Absolutely fantastic and in a great spot. Persistent bead, light golden color, fragrant nose, and lots of fruit on the palate with vibrancy that was exciting...more of a fruit driven profile than a yeasty one and did not disappoint.
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1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. evening/night), Part-2 (Park Regis restaurant): After the incredible afternoon, this was a prelude/aperitif to what's to come over dinner. Nothing like the '85 Dom which kickstarted our afternoon adventure, this was still good. We got brioche, nuts on the nose. Fine mousse, bright acidity and a good dose of minerality and citrus on the palate. Maybe I'm wanting too much... but this didn't have the complexity of the '85, or the power/depth of the '90. Nonetheless, a nice drink to start the dinner!
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Light yellow color with a very lively, fine mousse. Aromas of summer melons, minerals and yeast. Rich but beautifully balanced and structured fruit in the mouth with great depth and persistence on the palate. This powerful yet lithe Champagne was delicious with the outstanding food at Little Fish Restaurant. Still very youthful, this wine may rate an even higher score with a few more years of bottle age.
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Wow! Outperformed expectations. Smooth, rich, very together, great length. Drinking perfectly from a decanter - some air and a chance to warm from fridge temperature.
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LUNCH @ CALLAS (The Hague): This DP has a ripe soft texture with nutty, toasty and ripe peach flavors all in balance with soft acids. Sumptuous, rich and ready to drink.
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Leiden visits New Years Lunch in The Hague: Typical Dom Perignon, always a feast to drink! Fresh nose, citrus, brioche, soft mousse. Taste also fresh, citrus, minerals, creamy, elegant.
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Regular dinner group (By PvD @ Savarin): Completely blind, but what a pleasure to have this wine in the glass again. Beautiful citrus and minerals in the bouquet as well as on the palate. The wine develops in the glass and a bit later there are some pleasant reductive impressions and almonds. Nicely dry. A beautiful and mature Champagne.
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Birthday dinner at Sichuan Douhua. Yellowish gold. Nose was slightly muted, with good acidity, minerals, green apples, lemon and whiffs of butter. Palate had some age, but with good freshness and acidity. Kiwis, lemon cream, meringue intitally, after time there were more secondary flavours like toffee, butter, toast and oil. Lacking on the mid palate, and seemed to lack that extra bit of complexity I would expect from an aged Dom. Good wine.
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Lighter golden color. Very fine mousse. Beautiful nose of brioche, ripe pear, citrus, minerality, a touch of mint. On the palate there are notes of pear again, peach, minerals, apricot, chalk. It's medium-full bodied and elegant, with medium+ acidity. Small bubble and a very refined mousse. Long finish that ends with a touch of bitterness adding complexity. A very pretty Dom Perignon that is ready to drink now.
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Spennende tiltalende nese med bra intensitet. Flott konsentrasjon, og friskhet. Lang finish som prikker godt i munnhulen. Ved release var jeg ikke imponert. En slags metallisk element som forstyrret. Kommet seg veldig, og dette er bra! 92-93p
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Clean, clear, fresh, effervescent, green apples, slight brioche Oyster shell minerality, steely, tightly wound, metallic, gooseberries Medium finish, yeasty We all enjoyed the night's opener. One can never go wrong with a bottle of Dom
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Whites and Fish @ Tonny's (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): Yet another bottle of the 2000, and this was as consistently good as it has been over the past 2-3 years or so. It had a gently sweet nose of ripe red apples and strawberry flesh laced with a little smokiness and some mineral scents, with just the lightest floral note trailing on behind. The past few bottles have been showing an increasingly resolved palate, and this certainly continued the trend – it was round and generous, with a fine mousse that it just beginning to lose its vigour, and fleshy tones of red apples and sweet lemons. Lovely balance, even if it was clearly on the fleshier, less sleek side of Dom Perignon. There was just a little bright citrus edge showing the last vestiges of youth as the wine went past the midpalate, and then it trailed off into a long, minerally finish, with little kiss of warm spice and the tiniest linger of biscuity flavours. Very nice.
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Vigorous mousse that faded quickly. Impressive bouquet of fresh bread dough, apples, lemon zest, with hints of chalk and almonds. Similar on the palate, fresh, pure and crisp. Excellent but does not wow with its complexity. Perhaps this will improve with more bottle age.
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Thanks SH! Really enjoyed this bottle. Light on its feet with some good acidity. Citrus, vanilla, light yeast, chalk, and saline. Well extremely well with beer cheese soup. Haven't had a bunch of Dom but think I'm a really big fan of the style.
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Aged Bordeaux, Cali Cabs and more with the Benchmark Wine Group in Greenwich (The Ginger Man in Greenwich, CT): Drank this after the d'Yquem and it was the perfect thing to have after it. Anything else would have been obliterated by the sweetness of the d'Yquem but the Dom really refreshed the palate. This was very nice and refreshing, not like the blockbuster 2002 I had last year. Didn't have the creaminess of that but exhibited nice pure fruit of pear and lemon along with toast and almond. A very nice Dom Perignon
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This is drinking elegantly and beautifully now. I am sure it has the potential to keep going. Classic Dom Perignon with no harsh notes. Apricots and pears on the palate. Very smooth.
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Lovely is the one word description for this beautiful Champagne. Beautiful citrus and minerals. Good bubbles and freshness, soft and very tasty. A lovely, hard to resist bubble. Ready now and the next few years.
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Game and wine ('t Jachthuis, Eksel): Yeasty, fresh, open, candied lemon, clear présence of refreshing mousse. Very likeable and recognisable and complex. Impressive.
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I know the world loves this wine but I again found it good but largely unexceptional. Probably just me but if I'm in for wine this expensive I'll spend the extra $40 on a NV Krug (which to my palate is clearly superior).
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Pours bright gold with lively bubbles. Big yeasty toast aroma. On the palate, initial notes of apple and poached pears give way to licorice, creme brulee and boozy dessert notes, perhaps drunken rum cake. Long, persistent finish. Complex and constantly evolving. And this is not even supposed to be a "good" year for Dom.
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Light colour, citrus and brioche nose. On the palate, very elegant, complex, long, citrus, brioche, creamy texture. Quite different to other vintages I've tasted - less pronounced flavours but an excellent wine drinking beautifully now. No appearance of decline so probably good for quite awhile yet even though 2000 was not such a top year. Wish I had more.
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It's been nearly 5 years since I last tasted this wine, and time has been kind, generous even. In a very good place at the moment, with no immediate threat of decline. Truth be told, I'm temped to use exclamation points (gasp) this was so good. With 30 minutes of air, this proved an exceptional blend of creamy, nearly plump apples, spice, chalky minerals and roasting nuts; each taste better than the one before. The tension, and focus offered here proved a terrific counter point to the gently softened, lightly spiced fruits. My only regret is that this was not from magnum. The one to open while the more age-worthy Doms are sleeping. highly recommended, thru 2019
This has really come around since my previous bottle 3 yrs ago. Wonderful aroma of bread, citrus, and a floweriness that I can't quite peg. On the palate, wonderful crisp apple, peach, yeast, Meyer lemon (i.e., semi-tart, but not sour lemon). Glad I waited the 3 years, but wish I had another one to open in the future.
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Légèrement doré, très fines bulles persistantes. Nez plutôt sur la réserve, mais bouche d'un charme fou ! Fruits, blancs, agrumes, arômes de pâte à biscuits, de plain grillé, d'une bonne concentration et que dire de la longueur ! J'en boirais tous les jours ! Généreuse offrande d'un ami, geste très apprécié.
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Showing plenty of smoky pinot berry component, more serious than fresh, lacking a citrus edge and depth of chardonnay. Certainly good Champagne, clean and elegant despite an odd touch of heat, just lacking anything extra to justify the price.
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Very enjoyable indeed. The color has darkened quite a bit since last bottle, and the body, taste has gained considerable structure. Brioche, slight baking soda, very fine bubbles and delicious citrus, apple, and nutty taste all in beautiful harmony. It is getting ready to be enjoyed.
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Beautiful, toasty nuances. Smooth taste: the carbon dioxide integrated really well into this Dom, more so than in the slightly younger 2002. A delight to drink.
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CT Offline VI--San Antonio Edition (San Antonio, TX): Crisp, floral, citrus, notes of honeysuckle, lychee, honey, and wildflowers. Smooth, silky, really quite enjoyable. Good acidity that shows this one may have some more maturing to go. Drink now, or hold over the next several years prior to opening. May have a long life ahead of it operating at a high level.
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Good as you would expect, but ultimately overpriced and very overrated. Is this just a champagne for people that don't know about champagne. Not nearly as good as either 02 or 03. Give me a PR Winston Churchill any day
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we do not think our friends took the best care possible of this bottle so we will not complain about another average bottle of Dom 2000. Was rich and evolved and ripe but lacked depth and vitality we have come across in good bottles of this wine. A good 90 but not really representative.
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MAYBE. Am I missing something but every time i have had this champagne, it always seems a bit thin, a sharp acidity that is not well balanced by fruit. I just don't get the attraction. we opened an nv bollinger and it seemed so much more flavoursome. is it an aging issue or is it just a naked emperor?
Citrus and yeast; very smooth and easy to drink, but I remember the 1996 as being much richer and more interesting. Very good, but for the price it should be great.
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Saturday night at The Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Ah finally a good bottle! Dissapointing to be honest to have had so many misses on a 2000 DP. But Anyhow.. Colour shows some age but its the nose that is so captivating here, rich, ripe long yeasty, toasty notes across. On th epalate it carries the on the tune and actually feels a lot older than a 2000. A beautiful bottle great to be enjoyed now. 94 easy
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We are not sure if there are issues of bottle variation here but the bottle,cork and all looked very good. The nose was on the light side, light toasty, rich fruit scent. Teh problem was that on the palate it had almost zero vitality. Where is that Dom precission and focus and life? Note sure what is going on here but not of Dom level. Maximum crouwd pleasing power though.. 90 performance this time round and looking at our notes a lot of variability over the last few years
Fantastic wine for what I consider to be an "off" vintage. Yellow fruits, roasted nuts, and bread. Plenty of acidity to balance the ripeness. Top class champagne that is a bargin at current pricing.
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So many more nuts (Hazelnuts) than the '99 vintage. Green apple, with still vibrant acidity with a little chalk too but the citrus is fading. I liked this wine more when it was younger.
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- Yellow color with small pearls. It's in total harmony with a medium body. Smooth texture with a long finish - Champagne night at Sharon and Bruce's - Feb. 2, 2013 Excellent champagne
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Gold straw. Hugely gouttey, coppery, steely nose; masculine, but appealing; no butter or brioche, let alone oxidation. Palate fairly lean and clean, precise and mineral. Fine, clean mousse. Medium bodied with excellent length -- where it suddenly seems almost big. Years and years to go... (From magnum)
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In Zermatt. Good. Fruit, sugar, acid in balance but this bottle had nothing special. Maybe it's because it's been stored in a very cold alpine environment? Definitely tasted like a Dom but just lacking excitement. A pale imitation of the 02.
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A lot of bottle variation here from my experience. This was very good with deep,yeasty, rich fruit backed up with minerals and toasty aromas. But is it really worth the money and kudos?
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I do not know if this is the perfect Champagne, but I have never tasted any better wine. I opened this one for Christmas as a present to myself and my guests. It definite got Christmas dinner off to a festive start.
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Nose - quite floral but heavy sensation of oak. Nice note of passion fruit. Pinot Noir easy to taste. Overall, very pleasant. Palate - cooking apples and breadsticks. Good mouth-feel. Long finish. 90 pts.
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Goose dinner with friends (Stockholm): Nose: noticeably toasted with toasted hazelnuts and some toffee, cocoa powder, rather ripe fruit, some spice. Palate: medium bodied+, ripe yellow fruit - mostly yellow apples, apple compote, slightly spicy, some mineral, a hint of grapefruit bitterness. Aftertaste with apple notes and some mineral. Nice development, rather foody style. It has gotten quite a lot of development since this vintage was launched a couple of years ago. However, it is not as firm, elegant or mineral as the 2002.
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Best bottle I've had of this so far. This has developed quite nicely with much more toastiness now present. Vibrant citrus fruit, red apples, honey, and a floral note. Very fine bubbles.
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I've had this out of 750ml a few times and been somewhat underwhelmed, but two mags showed very well this week. Will have to give the bottles another try.
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Effervesence is still present, but certainly showing its age. Secondary flavors and aromas are emerging. Creamy, yeasty and mushroomy. These really emerged as the wine opened up. Suggest consuming at a warmer temperature than typical for Champagne.
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The first of four bottles, and definitely the best Dom Perignon i have had. Beautiful energy, chardonnay presence. Already quite complex with toasts, iodine, very fine bubbles and transparent color which is matched by a transparent texture. a wonderful surprise.
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Surprisingly full body vs Pol Roger 1998 Winston Churchill. I thought I could feel a lot of yeast and brioche, toasted. Color was rather pale, but I was surprised by how full the champagne was vs previous bottles. This was a Mag. I think I gonna save my other bottles cause this could be a pleasant surprise in a few more years...
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Drinking side by side with the '90. Certainly a rough night. Nose is graphite, hazelnut, citrus, not nearly as much fruit as the '90. On palate, lots of lemon zest, lemon rind. Crisp but smooth on finish. WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE THAN THE '90. Crazy bubbles.
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As before. Always amazed at the fineness of the bubbles. Drank a bit while eating cherries. Gave a real bitterness to the wine as well as sense of coffee on the nose. Will test with other fruits etc.
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Saturday Afternoon w/ the Claffee's (SoNo East Apartments - Chicago, IL): Super rich and concentrated with great hazelnut, mousse, pear and truffle notes. The palate buzzed with energy, and displayed a richness that really turned me on. If you're into french toast, you're gonna love this wine.
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Big and yeasty...lots of citrus, minerals and vanilla on the palate. Thought the palate showed a bit more than the other couple bottles I tried - nice fruit and great energy.
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taste: medium bodied with medium+ acidity but lacking a bit of a mid-palate. Nice and balanced with tones of pears, minerals, white fruits and some florals.
overall: A very nice dom, but not a memorable one. It's lacking some depth on both the nose and palate, but has a real nice balance to it right now and is accessible.
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Bob's Birthday Dinner (Maude's Liquor Bar - Chicago, IL): Drank alongside the '98 Dom Perignon. This was a bit tight and took a couple hours to open up. Wasn't as complex or exotic as I had hoped - but had the typical weight for a Dom with nice herbal, bready and orchard fruit tones. I said this a couple times over the course of the weekend, but decanting this probably isn't the worst idea.
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Pop and pour. Had lots of energy and power on the palate with great brioche and mousse tones. Needed air, but drinking it outside on a 100 degree day wasn't really smart!
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Enjoyed a glass at Le Bernardin to start the evening off. In the glass, pale gold. On the nose, notes of apples, fresh rainfall, minerals, and secondary notes of mushroom and yeast. On the palate, bracing on the attack, quickly rounding out on the palate to become full-bodied, with citrus and apple notes, and an almost Chablis-like flinty note; however, the palate didn't have as much going on as the nose did. With said, still a very nice glass of champagne, just perhaps not giving as much as I was expecting.
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Distinctly average bottle. The nose was very impressive with restrained Bready aroma and some.minerals but on the palate this was all bubbles and fizz. Very disappointing.
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Milton's Birthday Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Excellent. This bottle was back on form after the rather forgettable one we had towards the end of last year. In fact, it was probably the best of the six or seven bottles that I have had so far. It had a beautiful nose, rather telltale Dom Perignon, with ripe apples and strawberries alongside more developed aromas of honey and toffee, some caramelly hints, then beautiful earthy accents with white meat nuances, shades of smoky mineral and a nutty, yeasty back-note. Very nice. The palate was perhaps a little less developed, slightly younger tasting than the nose would suggest, but it was very delicious - with a typically subtle gentle mousse carrying nicely fleshy white fruit and appley flavours laced with the tiniest waft of strawberry. It was fruity up-front, but past the midpalate, this was more marked by streaks of earthy, stony minerally streak with a little drift of lemon and flower blossoms floating alongside into a wonderful finish with tons of length on it. This was very fine indeed. The 2000 DPs have really come a long way from their rather unconvincing youth. If they continue to develop along these lines, they should make quite wonderful Champagnes in 5 or 6 years' time.
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Yellow tint in the glass. I'm always amazed at the Soft bubbles of DP. Hint of pineapple and grapefruit on the palate as well as Slightly honeyed. Very enjoyable.
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Very good, as always. The structure and mouthfeel is very balanced. 50-50ish in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Nice small bubblelines and toasty, zesty and little tropical fruit aroma's. Will easy do another 5 years in the cellar.
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Well I rated this high as it marks a great occasion, still have a couple in the barrel for the get together but wanted to crack one open to share with my wife. I was told that champagne of good quality has bubbles that rise only in the center of a glass.. What a load of crap that was :-) Anyhow, I could get used to this, I expect to have a head like a robbers dog tomorrow and that's alright by me ! Light, fresh, crisp and much more delicate than the bubbly I am accustomed to..highly recommended !
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Mouton 86 vs Lafite 89 and some other friends (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Maybe its bottle variability, or maybe its aging but this time it felt a lot different than almost a year ago. Well round this time, almost like an early 90s krug, more of a burgandy wine than a sharp Dom. Very toasty, rich and long. Well round and has lost a bit of its sharpness. Still very enjoyable. 92-93 and drink at will.
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Drank to celebrate birth of our second son. Not sure how this influenced rating. Light color. Nose was appley, mushrooms. Definitely different from NV champagne. Mainly in length. Perhaps more aging would have made me feel differently. In any case I now conclude that this is not good value for money unless one values status. Wine is very good but there's a lot of NV out there that is much better value for money. I guess I am cheap.
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Wonderful, expressive nose of citrus and stone fruit, clean, bracing mouthfeel and a modest finish. Very enjoyable. This bottle does open up to show more complexity after an hour or two, while the bubbles are persistent if poured gently from the bottle. So it's worth taking time with this one. That said, even though my experience with champagne (methode) is limited, I've had better for much less. IMO low QPR.
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I drink a lot of champagne. That's not a boast but here in the UK there seems to be a deal every other week on this French sparkling wine. All of it, I have to say, is non-vintage but I have hit upon some fabulous NV of both famous and relatively unknown champagne houses.
As such, drinking a vintage bubbly is always reserved for a special occasion. I have always been suspicious of any review that references such an event. For example, if you are a couple on honeymoon, don't even bother posting on Trip Advisor; you're too 'loved-up' to make any rational judgment on a hotel/restaurant & your review is therefore automatically null and void.
I say all this as an admission that this bottle was saved for a special occasion, which happened to be my birthday. It was an aperitif whilst waiting for my birthday meal and, immediately upon pouring, the light honey colour showed that this was a champagne with a little more depth than the usual NV.
It was smooth and subtle in the mouth, yet leaving a lingering tickle on the palate. This was an 'ah' type of wine, since each sip was followed by the aforementioned satisfied sigh.
I have always found champagne difficult to appraise since the bubbles and occasion seem to get in the way but this was a beautifully constructed and executed example of vintage champagne.
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On a very important day in our lives, Beth and I shared this bottle of Dom Perignon tonight. It was glorious and beautiful, outstanding in every way. The shimmering pale gold in the glass, pinpoints of effervescence glistening, as aromas of fresh bouquets and summer showers tantalize the nose. On the palate, delicate lemon with fresh-picked apples, backed by biscotti and glazed pastry, and notes of mineral on the lengthy finish. Really spectacular. Magnifique.
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Tasted blind. Good minerality, reminiscent of Dom P from a weaker year, however not as good as in top vintages. Ought to have higher acidity and less fat fruit to gain the normal 2-3 extra points for elegance and finesse.
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Popped and poured into Burgundy glasses. Focused and refined expression of citrus and mineral. Reminiscent of a young, barely oaked, Grand Cru Chablis. Hints of faint mushroom and toast emerge with time. Improved as it opened up and provided a spicy, lingering finish. Still a young and disjointed for my palate but the structure is clearly there, it just needs time. Will not touch another bottle for at least 5+ years. 90+
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My review might be tainted, having recently tasted DP 99, 95, and 96, however, I just cannot get behind this vintage and think that you can do much better than it outside of DP for under $100. Definitely opens up after a few hours and everyone agreed that it was much more approachable when tasted in an open white wine glass (vs. champagne flute.)
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This was tasting so good as the New Year champagne in Ho Chi Minh City. Coffee, mushroom and red berries. Quite mature right now so it is very approachable and good drinking.
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Champagne Tasting (Waterford): 50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot, 84 months on the lees with no oak. Focus and intense nose with yeasty high notes. Like scotched oak and brown sugar. Mineral like wet granite. Long long finish with precision on the palate.
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December Birthdays (My Little Spanish Place): Still pretty good, but this was one of the weaker bottles of 2000 DP that I have had. It must be said that it did have a lovely nose as always - flowery aromas, creme fraiche, strawberry and red apple scents, earth and mineral, all unfolding in gentle layers. Beautiful stuff. The palate was rather full, rich, a bit big, especially when put next to the supermely elegant, charming 1991 Billecart Salmon that we had alongside. This showed gobs of fleshy green apple fruit, pears and lemons on the attack and midpalate before a bit of flowers peeked out in a nice long, slightly yeasty finish ringed with spicy notes. Very mouthfilling, with impressive depth, but I thought this lacked some of the fresh balance and verve of top vintages like 1996 and 2002, or even when compared with other bottles of 2000 that I have had. Nevertheless, still a very good wine, just not quite up to expectations given how this vintage seemed to be on an upward trajectory over the last couple of bottles.
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Pale yellow with very fine beads. Excellent bouquet of brioche, lemons, chrysanthemum and pebbles. Excellent balance with a lovely mouth feel. Fresh tasting apples, yeast and lemon palate with a very long citrus and mineral after taste. Very elegant.
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Drank 2 bottles and bottle variation is very evident. This bottle is excellent. Ready to drink. Toasty nose and sweet peach aroma, balanced with the right level of acidity. Elegant! The second bottle did not drink as well initially but got better after one hour in the glass
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Drank 2 bottles and bottle variation is very evident. This bottle is excellent. Ready to drink. Toasty nose and sweet peach aroma, balanced with the right level of acidity. Elegant! The second b
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Sampled 11/24/11. This wine has improved and is now seemingly starting to hit its plateau. Wonderful lemon and orange peel with green apple. Vibrant acidity that is well balanced. It might not be as long lived as the '85, '90 or '96, but it certainly is proving to be better than I originally thought it would be.
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I continue to like the style from this house more than some more knowledgable champagne folks. This bottle is another example. For me, perfectly balanced. Medium weight with a bit of nuttiness, the right amount of sweetness. Drinking more mature than the 1996 Deutz opened the following day.
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Classic and typical Dom Perignon with a languid mousse and developing a nice bronzed colour. The nose is alluring very lightly toasted white bread with the crusts cut off. Toasty palate with some lightly roasted hazelnut. This is just starting to emerge from early adolescence and is starting to put on the merest weight. Always a pleasure to drink.
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My first bottle of Dom. Comparing it with a 98 La Grande Dame I had recently this is not as yeasty, a little fresher with more mineral, citrus and acid. Both fantastic but both different. Another 5 years would probably round things out and make it absolutely amazing, but this is more than drinkable now.
Casa Carmichel w/ (Damon, Kristina, Teresa, & Renotcka)
Green/Gold, Bubbles were plentiful Green apples, citrus, some typical chablis notes showed as well Very dry, Chalky, high minerality, great acidity Palate cleansing
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Excellent, fresh, sparkling, citrus. Served at a champagne dinner with veal and scallops which was an excellent choice. The best champagne of the evening outperforming by far Roederer Cristal 2000 (which was served for desert) which was quite astonishing to me as Roederer was(!) long time my favorite champagne.
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good but overpriced as usual. much better, and cheaper, was 1998 la grande dame veuve clicquot. I noticed robert parker's antonio galloni disagrees and gave 94 to dom and only 90 to la grande dame. i make bold to suggest you might profitably take my advice though. the veuve is richer and more flavorful, but the dom is lighter if you prefer that. Omigoodness I seem to disagree with myself on this same wine from last december. ??? I have no explanation.
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Very subtle and ethereal. Lots of citrus, a little mineral, and enormous freshness. Better than the previous bottle I had of this and a good example of normal vintage Dom.
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EWG: Decadence (Conrad Green's Abode): I'm not a huge fan of this, at least in the context of what you hope it to be. Its a nice enough Champagne in the abstract but it falls far below good vintages to me. Yes, it needs more age but I don't see a lot of upside here in the way of depth, concentration or interest. Trademark sulfur nose. Big powerful bubbles with strong apple notes. I swirled and coaxed it for a while to no change. Tons of NV farmer fizz out there that blows this off the table for less than half the price.
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In a beautiful place right now. Creamy lemon, hazelnut, great finesse and length; even from this lighter year a graceful wine with a balance, intensity and energy that are rarely equalled. At The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall, UK.
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Cannot say it was bad, bubbles were very fine, flavour was good, but not as complex as I expected. Not too much flavours, quite mature already. You can find much better at a much lower price. Well, quite disappointing...
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as one would expect from a wine with these credentials, this was a delightfully floral wine at the front with a long delicate creamy finish. Bubbles are fine and seemingly everlasting. Very solid wine. Recommended for a special occasion in spite of price.
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Excellent and still quite young. Plenty of fresh grapefruit and green apple with hints of freshly baked bread. High in acidity and overall a good solid backbone.
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2011 BMDP Charity Dinner and Extras (Meritus Mandarin and then John and Elaine's): Very good indeed. Drank with strawberries and cream over a post-dinner poker game. Unlike the previous bottle, which was absolutely singing, we did not have the time to decant this. It was also served in flutes rather than white wine glasses (my preference these days is always for the later), which must have muted is somewhat. Nevertheless, it still showed very nicely indeed. Nose was all nuts, earth and red apples, while the palate had more primary lime and lemons along with a nice stream of minerality to add to the mix. Lovely balance and substance all around. The finish again took on the deliciously, nutty, yeasty notes picked up on the nose, especially with the strawberries, which seemed to call out a shaved almond flavour in the wine. Yummy - this keeps getting better.
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Notes of apple, citrus, mineral and toast. Medium-bodied, with good acidity, a pleasing texture, and good depth of flavor. Great balance, and a long and well delineated finish. Will improve for many years to come.
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@ Hotel des Indes, The Hague, the Netherlands…..Vivid yellow gold in color. Dynamic mousse with countless, powerful and persistent, small bubbles. On the nose lots of delicious fruit and very refreshing. On the palate great strength and length, again lots of (candied) fruit, refreshing and elegant, with a superb balance. The ultimate aperitif, It also combines refined with lobster, crab, caviar, oysters or turbot. Needs a little longer to mature in the bottle for more complexity..
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Drank a bit warmer than I would like, which probably impacts the score. Nice acidity with light citrus like hints. Needs some years to flush out and add some other notes to the palate. Still, elegant and showing promise.
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very nice bottle. some nice toast and lemon lime tropical fruits on the nose. nice acid, tropical fruits and a toasty palate. finshes a little abruptly. probably too young.
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denne hadde vi julaften 2010 , dette er vel noe av det bedre jeg noen sinne har smakt , crisp masse florale dufter , flott lang ettersmak , første som slår meg er gjærbakst , men den forsvinner ganske fort , da er alt det beste igjen . synd dette var siste flaske WOW
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Medium body. Surprisingly Chardonnay-like flavors and clarity that seem more noticable than in other bottles of this I've had. Light oyster shell and smoke. Enjoyable.
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New Years Eve Cabernet and Dom Blowout (Our House (2033 Brandywine St., Philadelphia)): In the middle of two great Doms and this was definitely overshadowed. A nice wine in its own right but it simply did not stack up to the 96 and 02 Doms. Toasted bread, oatmeal, lemon and citrus. Nuttiness on palate with citrus and apple. Nicely concentrated but did not exhibit same complexity, concentration and power as other vintages. Nice citrusy finish.
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New Years Eve Lobsterfest! (Roberts House, Philadelphia PA): interestingly, this was more developed than the '96 -- it seemed older than it should be at this age. mushroom, some green fruit, and not quite as much acidity as the other two. some nutty notes.
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Almost clear with a slight green tint. Smells like dough laced with gooseberries. Wonderful acids mixed with a bitter green fruit element and yeast (approaching marmite for (*&^s sake). Strong lemon elements. I am not a champagne drinker, but found this quite nice.
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I opened 4 bottles of wine tonight, this dom, a 2001 la mission haut brion, a 2006 corizon cab, and a 2008 andrew will sorella. The dom was the clear hit of the night, and the second place winner was the sorella. In comparison to other (less expensive) champagnes I have had lately, such as the Charles Heidseck reserve, the Perriet Jouet, the Genet, Bonville, the (french) Roederer, I liked the dom best - more flavor, which my wife called mushroomy. It reminded me of a champagne a friend had aged in his cellar and brought to a dinner. Domaine st michelle is really good for $10, but for $125+ this is better, not 12 times better, but better. Enjoyment is not measured on a continuous scale however, and this one crosses the ahhh... line. Still the first glass is more spectacular than the second....next day we continued celebrating with pierre moncuit and 1996 duval leroy, but the dom is still our favorite. oddly it also seems the best buy, since the price of $125 is about what i remember it being 10 years ago, whereas no other wines we like have held anything like the same price for that period. the 1996 duval had a strong flavor but not as smooth and subtle as the dom. By the way I preferred this to the 2002 we had a little while back, but i am not a champagne drinker usually. I have also noted a good way to spoil your enjoyment of a good wine is to drink several good ones together, since only one will shine, whereas separately all will shine.
...later: We liked the 2000 Dom so much I sprung for another $125 bottle, but the second bottle was unlike the first, i.e. it was not smooth but strong and a bit rough. same vintage, same store ....what gives ???
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Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Impressive and complex nose with butter, hazelnut, smoke, coffee, green apple and burnt butter. Equally impressive palate with burnt butter, fresh green apple, hazelnut with a long acidic aftertaste. Good balance. It has an almost creamy texture to it that is very adorable. Lovely wine and even better than I had expected!
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Good colour, beginning to show a more golden hue. Very lively, good steady fine perlage. Still fresh, hints of vanilla and almonds with good fruit. Long and very very elegant, a keeper.
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Really good. Spectacular bubbles, I've never seen a bubble like that. Lovely nose of lemon and green apple. A bit of yeast and white flowers. The acidity must be domesticated and that's the point that makes me think that this vintage have years of life. I would like to drink it in 5 years.
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Light color. Typical mineral nose, crushed wet rock thing. Tight tart nose. Crisp w some sweet fruit in there. Bit of smokiness in there on the palate, acid, fruit all balanced, maybe a bit too tight right now, the fruit still gaining weight on day II. Today this does not yet earn it's wings, bit pricey for value. A solid vintage Moet is too close to this at half the price. Maybe more time will let this settle, just wound too tight even at day II.
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Minneapolis Wine Club Champagne Tasting (Shari's House): For the price I am not a buyer and this is really young but the Henriot Vintage from 96 is better and half the price. Chalk, orange peel, minerals, and dough on the nose and palate. There is a creaminess on the palate and has a medium finish.
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Minneapolis Wine Club does Champagne (Shari's House): expressive nose of floral, mineral, toasty, yeast, apple, lemon, citrus. The palate is delicious, creamy, elegant. Really nicely balanced fruit, minerality, and acidity. This is excellent. My WOTN in a close race with the '01 DVX, DVX wins in a landslide on QPR however.
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Shared 3 bottles of this at Palomino's "going out of business" party week in Minneapolis. No detailed notes, but a center of the plate pitch for my palate - not too dry, not too heavy / doughy, the slightest bit of sweetness. This wine has its detractors, but I'm a fan. The problem is I can't find this wine anywhere for as cheap as it was at the restaurant. "Half price on all wines" brought the cost of this one to $95!
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slightly reticent nose, flowery and pleasant but not the bolder and forward style I like. On palate - very fine mousse, elegant and lifted, more than the nose was giving. very well balanced fruit and acidity, sweetness but not cloying. very good palate.
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Kelvin's Bachelor's Party (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Really good. This was a bottle with the Andy Warhol labelling, but I thought I would post it as a "normal" DP as there is really no difference in the stuff within the bottle. Decanted it for half an hour before serving, so the bubbles had gone down, but if the wine's showing was anything to go by, the decanting really helped. This was by far the best of the 4 bottles that I have had so far. Lovely nose - walnut scents, white meat, red apples, citrusy lemony notes, a bit of yeast and white flowers. Typically pleasing DP stuff, and I think even more open than the last time I tried it. You could say the same of the palate as well. Super refined mousse made for a really nice mouthfeel, and it was deliciously juicy with lovely fruit sweetness showing in flavours of fleshy red apples, white plums, a bit of cherries, little hints of ripe lemons and some minerality, all nicely integrated, with just that a little bite of wheat biscuit at the very end. Very friendly, as befitting both the wine and the vintage, but with no lack of depth. This has really improved since the first time I had it. Very nice.
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8.5/10 - This starts fruity and big with apples and lemon. Mid palate is structured with great toasty and crisp flavours. Dry without being achingly so. Great smooth mouthfeel with an unending stream of tiny bubbles. Mum never drank so much in her life till this wine.
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seems that this bottle is better than previous one , nose citrus and apple , crispy , very intensive mousse , very dry, long, very good champagne to celebrate something or nothing ;)
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The Dom must deliver at the price it is offered, and to a degree it does. Refinement in the extreme, fine bead, fine flavors, minerality and citrus, long and lingering, exquisitely satisfying. All that said, I am not sure I would plonk down the loot myself.
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I love Champagne but don't drink enough to focus on the elements that require comparison. That said, my expectations were not high and the wine easily exceeded them.
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Lovely wine. Profuse bead kept exploding from the base of the glass.
Palate was lovely; complex, yeasty and very approachable with very persistent, fine mousse and attractive acid (with nice soft edges and a great, clean finish).
Drank beautifully, at 10 yrs of age, without any hints of harshness. Super classy. Very, very enjoyable; the 4 of us all loved it - it "hit the spot" but the 2 males at the table thought that it didn’t have the intensity or “attack” of a Krug. However I do not want to imply that it was lacking - it wasn't. Clearly a premium wine and worth the money.
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I was expecting big things from my first dom, however I found it too similar to many more ordinarily priced Champagnes. Very good, but for the money I'd rather have a Krug NV.
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Notes of fresh bread dough, matchstick, shiitake mushroom, green apple and lemon. Large, coarse bubbles -- too fizzy at first, then went flat too quickly. Overall, no better than a typical $30 champagne or even an $18 California sparkling wine. Disappointing at this price.
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2010 Masters of Wine Champagne Tasting (San Francisco, CA): Straw-yellow color. Yeasty apple and mineral aromas. Medium bodied palate with apple, pear, lemon, mineral, and even a little mushroom. Impressive mousse. Beautiful long finish. A very elegant wine that feels a bit constrained at present. Definitely getting better, but also it’s definitely not yet where it needs to be for this prestigious label. I have difficulty seeing this ever comparing well with the 1990s-vintage Doms. Personally, I would think twice before purchasing this for either short term consumption or aging. That being said, it’s clearly evident this is a quality Champagne that I wouldn’t kick out of bed either if given a glass.
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We started with a glass of the 2000 Dom, having had a glass a week earlier we knew not to expect fireworks, not that it is a bad wine, but it is not a great Dom Perignon. It has the hallmark slightly sinister brooding reductive elements that make me wonder why the marque is such a crowd pleaser when young. But it is a lighter style and seems to lack the depth of other young Doms, certainly the 98 and 99 were better at this stage, the 98 by some way.
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Sparkling wine blind tasting: Tasted blind. Strong nose. Really fine bubbles. Good finish. Second best wine of the tasting, but not worth the steep price. 89-90
Go with the Roderer instead, which was ranked first and cost 1/3 the price. The 2005 Westport Rivers RJR Brut (from Massachusetts!) came in just behind the Dom, but it's less than 1/6 the cost. There's the QPR! This wine is definitely worth tasting blind, as the ~$150 price tag will make you think this is better than it is.
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Full of posh toasty whiffs (I guess you’d call it pain grille). Lovely creamy mouthfeel with energetic, red fruits and bakery notes. Incredibly elegant with sneaky precision and power.
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Elements: Llight white bread, yeast, angel food; tuna oil; lite as a feather, frothy, minerally and chalky finish! seemed like slight t’s at end. Hiro’s B-day.
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Very nice from start to finish. Nose had good complexity, yeasty and floral with white fruits all in balance. The body was lovely and full without being heavy and a long, long finish rounded it all out.
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Citrus with a slight honeyed orange component. Bold styling. Crisp finish provides support. Contrary to my last note now seems very Dom in style. Nice wine.
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Taste at Elysian. Still a winner. Nutty, dark caramel, green apple and pumpernickel bread. A dark yeasty quality. Palate is really nice. Long finish with great balance and acidity. Again, a lovely wine.
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Dom Perignon Tasting at CW Alcohol 12.5% The regular cuvee of Dom Perignon is tight on the nose, display focus and intense aromas of white fruits and florals with hint of brioche and mineral undertone. Clean on the palate, the fine beads gently explode which caressing the palate along with its crystalline, pure texture with acidic finish that linger on the mouth. Still young an I believe another 3-5yrs will do the justice. While this is good, I wont pay for the price.
With times, this came rounder and more balance, with dry finish and hint of bitter lemon peel undertone.
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Slightly reticent aromatics of pear and apple fruit with gentle yeasty flavours. The palate is another matter - in the mouth it's an explosion of bright, pure fruit with touches of brioche and a savoury minerality beneath. There's a sense of real finesse and elegance here with a gentle silky texture and really good acidity beneath that keeps this very streamlined and precise. Lovely.
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The wine was O-K, but that is it. For the price paid i think you should be offered a lot more... The wine was very muted on the nose and did not offer a lot of complexity on the palate... Disappointed.
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Ultimate Parker in Singapore Mega-Tasting (The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore): Third try, and this was by far the best I thought. Nice nose, with typical DP friendliness - yeast, biscuits, some white meat inflection and plenty of lacy white fruit. Palate was very eager to please, Fresh and fizzy mousse, lots of upfront fruit with sweet lemons and peach and a touch of flowers. This had some weight on it and a nice concentration on mid-palate, and pretty decent length as well, with a little note of yeast to say goodbye. Surprisingly nice. Not a profound beauty, but no ditzy airhead either, which some DPs can tend towards.
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Lovely mellow citrus notes with a bit of honey flavors wrapped up in a nice complex finish and very impressive for the vintage. This Dom will be even more rewarding with 5+ years of cellar sleep....
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This had a very nice showing at the dinner last night. Beautiful color with a nose that developed over time to green apples, salty caramel, and pears. Same on the palate with a nice acidic finish.
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Not half as good as the 96 I tasted a couple of years back. This simply was not worth the hefty price tag. Very good champagne with decent complexity, but more clean and crisp really on the flavour profile. You can find this quality at less than half the price. Nevertheless, i will never complain when I'm being served DP.
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It's got nice chalky minerality, and lots of small persistent carbonation. Staid to the point of expressing almost nothing. There is nothing really wrong with it, but wine this expensive shouldn't make you go meh. As far as I can tell there is absolutely nothing special about this wine except the label.
For my 100+ I'd take a flyer on something different and more interesting next time -- Selosse Initial?
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On MH016 first class from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam, in the ealy morning hours. Definite notes of brioche and toast on the nose, straw yellow with miniscule mousse. A wide ranging attack encounters the palate with a silky soft elegant-effervescent texture, nutty notes and little sweet in the long finish, focussed. Great! Why not 1st class every time I fly?
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Close to 92. Very nice nose with lots of fresh citrus and some very ripe fruit. (It has a hint of the same funk i find lots of in Ruinart BdB.) A hint of gunpowder in the nose too. Quite yound and citrussy taste with some raw apple. The nose is better than the taste, but the taste is very good as well. Some fruit candy and melon in the nice aftertaste. It becomes a bit sweeter and better with time in the glass and with a rising temperature. Needs years to improve.
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In cellebration of Canada's gold medal hockey win! Woo hoo... At that point of the night it could have been camel piss and we would have enjoyed it, but it was actually really good. This was the best champagne that I have had, but my experience has been limited.
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Dinner with the Monthly Group (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): Putting my DP bias aside, this was actually really nice. Better than the last time I tried it six months ago at any rate. Lovely nose. Yeast, earth, white fruits, dusky strawberry tones - far deeper, and far more expressive than the Roederer Brut NV that preceded it. Mousee was fine, almost indistinct. Palate had plenty of biscuit and caramel notes, overlaid with a dry, structured spine and juicy acidity, and laced through with mineral and lots of juicy strawberry fruit and flowery top notes. A very expressive wine in true DP fashion. The dry minerally finish had decent length and closed the wine off rather nicely. Lacks complexity, as I noted with the last bottle, but this was well-balanced and delicious. Not a sophisticated lady, this was more like your playboy playmate gone legit. Still though, quite a pleasure to drink.
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Fresh, yeasty and vibrant on the nose. Clean and creamy on the palate. Nice minerality and hints of crisp apple. Long finish. Here is the problem with this wine. Technically, this is a well made Champagne. The flavors are clean and everything is well balanced, but frankly, compared to other Champagnes at the table, this is just kind of boring. Nothing that makes it stand out or interesting.
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Consistent notes as three weeks ago. A nice Champagne when you want to serve or give something with label recognition, but thats about it with the 2000.
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Taste at Elysian. Next day from the bottle. Still plenty of carbonation plus it had a night to open up. Enjoyable classic DP nose of brioche, yellow apples, light honey, barnyard hay and light yellow and white flowers. Palate is more weighty showing some richer baked breads and more yellow fruit. Finish is pelasant and medium to full bodied showing lovely acidity and length. Still overated and overpriced.
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Just drank a bottle on a normal friday night with a good friend in front of a warm fire. The DP started quite good and elegant, albeit a bit closed. It only got better and better and (as usual) the last two glasses were pure delight. The perfect bottle to drink amongst good friends with good food on a non-special night, not to be wasted with Holidays and related philistines ;).
Should only get better in 2-5 years. Will keep the rest of the case/box locked in the cellar for a couple of years.
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Very good champagne. Great color. Dry, clean, and crisp, with nice mineral flavors well integrated. Not a great QPR, but then it's DP, and more for special occasions than anything else.
Not as good as the '99 vintage, but still solid.
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Yeasty brioche and lemon nose with some mineral as well. A lean citrus palate with good minerality and acidity, a decent finish, but unfortunately nothing special.
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Despite being a bit youthful (I'll save another bottle of the 2000 for a few years), this was showing nicely after an hour. Good citrus foundation, with hints of pear and peach. A tart lingering finish, with a tad of smokiness (or was that from the fireworks?!) that was quite refreshing. Hold for 3-5 yrs.
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Binny's Champagne Night (Binny's Highland Park, highland park IL): nose: some nice doughy tones strike right off the bat along with tones of baking spices, pears, apples, citrus tones, and bits of minerals. Very good depth and balance right now on this, and has a more refined quality to it
taste: Polished and clear tones of dough, baking spices, minerals, apples, lemon drops, and bits of pears. Extremely well balanced with a precision to it right now and medium+
overall: This Dom could really turn into something with about 6-8 years of rest. There is a real good clarity to it right now, and if it can get deeper and more mature, this could be a real beauty
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We don't drink DP by the case load, but we've been drinking it several times a year for the last two decades or more. The 2000 we had on Christmas 2009 was hands down the most disappointing bottle we've had. We knew the 2000 wasn't a 1996, but this was just so basic. The 1998 and 1999 are both better. Maybe this just shouldn't have been declared a vintage. There was essentially no complexity, none of the yeasty goodness we've come to enjoy. It was a fine sparkler, but it wasn't a £100 bottle of Champagne. Next time, perhaps it'll be the Krug.
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There's no doubt about it; DP is now more approachable young than in past vintages. This 2000 started out very promising with delicate yet forceful aromas of wheat crackers, brown sugar and lemon peel. Nice texture, too, plenty of pintpoint bubbles but not too gassy. Unfortunately, as it warmed, it got more blurry and soupy, losing much ot it's appeal. This is a difficult wine to read.
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It's a 92-93 point wine with very tight bubbles and it's still very young. At a minimum it can probably use 4-5 years of aging. Mineral rock, yeasty and sharp acid that cuts through any spicy foods.
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Couldn't separate itself from the line-up. Delicious but basic. Massive acidity, strong green apple flavors with bits of oak here and there. To young? I need to find that is in it's drinking window and try to understand what all of the hub-bub is about.
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Mainstream Champagne at Franks house (At Franks house): Nose: Oysters, candy, slightly mineral, apple closed. Mouth: Fresh bread out of the oven, slightly bitter, firm, slim and clear structure with hints of apple and apricot. Fantastic bubbles small and many that grow in the mouth. Can drink now but will develop. Keep.
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Masters of Wine Champagne Tasting (San Francisco, CA): Moderate yellow color. Relatively large bubbles with a persistent fizz. Yeasty apple nose. Delicate palate with lovely apple, spice, oak, and lemon flavors. Light-to-medium bodied. Medium-long finish. There’s definitely elegance here, but it’s hesitant. My one complaint with young Dom is that it’s too light and simple when young. The 2000 vintage is slightly fuller than I recall other recent Dom vintages, but overall it’s still too light for my taste. Far more time aging is needed. In my mind, at this price any Champagne should not only have great aging potential but should also be far more drinkable while still relatively young. Nonetheless, a truly excellent wine and perhaps the best young Dom I can recall.
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Nice tight bubbles with yeasty sourdough bread notes. Toasty Brioche notes emerged with more time, but the wine never really displayed the depth or complexity one associates with this great house. Was served a touch warm but held strong throughout the dinner. Hold onto these for a few more years before revisiting *(*)
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33rd Birthday: Light yellow. Buttery note on the finish. Nose of citrus, almond, pear, and honey. Light toasty note. Medium body with very soft bubbles. Moderate acidity. Medium length finish. As the Champagne warmed up and breathed in the glass it gained a smoky flinty note and got more complex.
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Naturally, very young colour. Very fresh with nice, bright acidity. A little toast and brioche with quite a precise mousse. However, quite jagged and awkward at this stage and became increasingly so with more air in the glass.
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Served blind and at cellar temp shortly after being opened: A nose of apples, yeast and buttery oak. Over-ripe green and yellow apples as well. On the palate the apples are spiced showing some nutmeg which carries into some lime juice on the finish. Tart finish that leaves behind a texture and flavor like you were sucking on a cotton shirt. Nice body, nice light bubbles but overall un-complex and boring compared to the competition and feels fairly standard. If anything I thought this wine was the ringer of the night. Placed last place for me in a 8-bottle blind Champagne tasting.
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Blind Champagne - Dom Pérignon loses to Cava AGAIN (My House (Portland, OR)): This is the second time for me a Dom Pérignon has lost out to a Cava, and this time in a blind tasting. Certainly darker color than the previous two wines, on the nose this is showing pretty heavy oak funk, an egg, and bird crap. Pretty decent fruit on the mid-palate, but again getting quite oaky. Rancid a bit on the finish, with high acidity, and oak building. Really not too appealing and perhaps I'm over scoring this? I think nearly everyone in the tasting either scored this last, or at least bottom three. This wine was the main reason we did the tasting blind, and the reaction didn't disappoint.
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Wow, what a great bottle! Initially this was chilled too much (but the girls like it that way). Once it came to proper tasting temperature, this beauty sang! Nice tight concentration of bubbles in the glass against a lemon zest color. The palate presented with citrus, bread yeast, wildflower and some soft melon undertones. The sweet citrus really stood out towards the end of this bottle as it warmed up. Simply lovely.
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Tasted at the BBR & Moet Tasting "The Three Expressions of Dom Perignon" presented by Richard Geoffroy. Crisp & intense with a delicate nose. Minerality. I like the term used by RG as precise because it is exactly that. Simply another top DP champagne.
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CT London Event (Hide Bar, Bermondsey, London): I thought this was showing really well. Very clearly DP styled. A little tight on the nose at first, showing its youth maybe, but opened up to show very expressively, with lovely chard tones of sweet apples and melons, a touch of yellow flowers, a little musk and some bread. Palate was quite a bit sweeter than the Cuvee Claude Moet that preceded it, almost bursting with fruit - I got green apples and cherries. Lovely integration though, with a nice focus and a little minerally backbone. Nice long finish too, with more sweet fruit, again the green apples and cherries, before it tailed off to a tightly wound mineral and yeast finish. Could have done with a touch more complexity and structure, but it was very nicely balanced and delineated.
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Colour: Golden with hints of green Bouquet: Toast, fruity Palate: Very lively and small bubbles, loads of them. The palate is very balanced and elegant. You can find cream, lemon and other citruses and butter from the dry taste. Very fresh and tasty indeed. Long and rich finish.
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Might be the best champagne I have ever tasted. Overall a very long finish with a creamy undertone, toasty citrus, understated fruit undertones. well balanced with long lasting small effervescence.
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Drank at a Sherry-Lehmann/Dom Perignon wine dinner at Fishtail - This was the starter wine and good place for it was much lighter then the '95 and '93 Oeno's. Some toast and citrus and on the nose, lemons, sour apple, minerals on the palate. This is a ligher, refreshing champagne that is best served on a hot day. The texture was no where near as good as the Oeno's, but still enjoyable.
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Had alongside a Krug GC and a 98 Veuve LGD. The lightest of the three but very enjoyable for the citrus, vanilla, unripe tart green apple, and yeast components. Light on the palate but had a medium plus finish. Went well and actually got much better with the chevre and apple compote.
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2009 LVMH Tasting at Elway's Cherry Creek (Denver, CO): Very lively nose of minerals, chalk, stone fruits, some ginger and citrus elements, too. Really tight on the palate which is to be expected, but this does not have anywhere near the structure of say the '96. I was hoping for a bit more of the lees effect on the nose. The assemblage was a bit off, I thought. Drink thru 2018+.
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Philadelphia Wine Festival (Marriott, Philadelphia PA): Typical Dom flavor profile, with already impressive yeast and biscuit notes. crisp acidity. nice effort, and towards the middle of the vintages of Dom I've had young.
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dave's bordeaux blowout (backstreet wine salon): i guess they'll just declare every year now, huh? not a bad wine, but very light, and not a lot of complexity. certainly fresh...and routine.
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Light yellow. Fine persistent mousse. Delicious nose of nuts, breadcrumps, caramel and lemon. In the mouth this is very forthcoming and while it is nowhere near the 1996 and lacks some structure it certainly is drinking very nicely and a good deal more interesting than the 1999.
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Very nice but very soft champagne. Butter yellow color, full mousse of small but not tiny bubbles. Almost nothing on the nose even with extended aeration, until it finally yielded a scent of fresh mountain air. Pleasant, delicate and elegant and would be decent enough for a blancs de blancs NV or vintage grande marque - but not for DP.
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Champagne Tasting (Waterford Wines Milwaukee): 50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay, disgorged spring of 2008, dosage 7g/l would i say exclusively non-offensive? touch of salonishness to the nose. ben refers to a hazelnutiness to other vintages. 2000 is a really light vintage in comparision. moet - 30 million cases
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A lighter DP that some say would never have been made if it weren't for the vintage. I say less of the burnt rubber stink that normally pervades DP making it such an overpriced horse piss wank fest. Although I admit that I am having a strange attraction to this bottle right now.
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Oh my god how good this is - boys and girls, this indeed is the real deal, the best champagne we've ever had. The bottle was enjoyed this am as part of a birthday breakfast for a good friend while up in Bryson City NC for a Christmas weekend get-away with our dinner club. Pale straw colored, tiny lively bubbles, unbelievable aeromatics - nose initially very effervescent with tones of mature pear and vanilla coming through after initial effervescence blew off. Crisp, minerally and yet soft and very well balanced. Flavors included a very pleasant underlying nuttiness and almost a mocha structure with primary flavors of green apple, peach and vanilla. First DP we've had, I now understand the fuss and the reputation. Highly recommend this, however way too expensive to be any kind of a good QPR - in life, however, some things are simply worth the money.
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Had a taste - this was great. Balanced acidity, not puckeringly dry. A rich but controlled sweetness and nuttiness on the palate. A little bit of earthiness on the nose did not show on the palate. Really nice.
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Best champagne I've ever had... now I'll say that I'm not much of a champagne fan.... but this was very complex had a very long finish and was fairly dry/brut. A nice experience!
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Pale straw color with beautiful pinpoint bubbles. Light mineral and citrus aromas - shy but well balanced., In the mouth, the citrus impression blossoms to yellow fruit with a mineral underpinning. A bit fat and unfocused at the moment (though the wine was disgorged April, 2007). A classic Dom Perignon vintage where the DP style coexists with the style of the vintage. Long, mineral laced finished with a slightly sweet impression.
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An excellent wine as always. It did not impress me as much as the 98 which I would have given a couple of more points. Nice fruit but could've been better. Less acidity and more elegance in the 98. Next up is 99.
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At the 2008 Post hotel Wine Summit in Lake Lousie Alberta Canada, We were fortunate to have Pascal Pecriaux who has been with Dom Perignon for thirty years. He walked us through three vintaged DPs, one DP Rose, and three of their Enotheque. It was a tough way to start a Saturday morning at 9:00, but I was up for the challenge. The 2000 Dom was the first of three and I have to admit my first vintaged Dom. This pale greenish yellow effervescent offering tickeled my nose with hints of citrus and apricot. On the tongue it was at first mediciny and acidic. As I and the wine woke up and listened to the heavy accented Pecriaux, this glass of Champagne began to charm me.
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Nice color. The nose is a bit tight, showing aromas of brioche, minerals, white flowers, pear and citrus. This is medium bodied on the palate with excellent concentration and lovely balance. The fairly long finish features a strong mineral element.
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1/14/2024 - stanqwash Likes this wine: 95 Points
Classic Dom notes but with a yougurty tang. Possibly a flaw but really enhanced the experience for me. Overall a much more unique Dom than I’m used to. Plenty of fizz and no signs of decline.
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12/31/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drank at friends as the clock struck Midnight and the 12-minute fireworks display began over Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Almost identical notes as the bottle we took to share with friends in Seattle over Christmas. Gorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still a lovely indulgence. Has a lovely final resonance and reverberance at the back of the head on the finish. Happy New Year!
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12/31/2023 - Irish_Wine Likes this wine: 94 Points
Pure gold. Rich and developed. Tarte tatin and honeyed almonds. Very fine mousse. Great persistence. In a lovely spot to drink now.
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12/27/2023 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 94 Points
Gorgeous mid-range bright jewelled gold colour. Brief mousse followed by persistent streams of micro-bubbles. Nose is still very primary… brioche, lemon skins, crushed limes. Palate is super-fresh, very primary, dilute by any DP standard but still lovely over Christmas holiday eggs Benedict late breakfast. Has a lovely back end resonance and reverberance in the back of the head on the long finish. A nice way to say thank you to our friends who hosted us over a chilled Christmas in Seattle along with Angela cooking the Eggs Bebedict for them.
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12/20/2023 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 93 Points
Crisp, tasty, darker color, enjoyable. Last btl
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12/14/2023 - dougstewartfcca Likes this wine: 95 Points
One of the best champagnes I've had; wine is at its peak, but certainly has a few more years. Fine bubbles, apple and pear in the nose; delicate on the palate with a long finish. Highly recommended
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10/13/2023 - wicozani Likes this wine: 94 Points
From magnum. Half was decanted 45 minutes before pairing with a mixed cheese and charcuterie board. A medium+ yellow in the Riedel Vinum XL pinot noir glass with flashes of gold. Served a bit too cold, but still striking toasted brioche and nuttiness on the nose, with soft meyer lemon and heaps of slate. Quite structured straight from the bottle, with still very good acidity. The shocker was visiting the decanted portion. Much more obvious nose, this time with a striking note of freshly minced ginger, with all the other notes amped up. Everyone around the table noted these exquisite changes. Beautiful performance on the celebratory occasion. The fourth or fifth time we've had this vintage, and it bested all those previously poured from 750ml bottles. One magnum remaining - when should we open it?
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7/22/2023 - Cailles wrote: 94 Points
Tasted double blind. This DP is in its prime, with a tertiary complexity that compensates for the lack of depth the vintage offered. At its best, after some time in the glass, it scored 95 points. While the wine still has a nice freshness, the bubbles are slowly disappearing. So I don't think it can improve for much more than another 5 years.
TN: Intriguing nose with caramel and burnt sugar notes, citrus freshness and some salty notes. Medium+ expressive and intense. The palate is beautiful with some red fruit notes and even more salty minerality along with the caramel and burnt sugar notes. Not super complex but very enjoyable with very fine, slightly fading bubbles but a good acid backbone to keep it fresh, the texture lacks a bit of softness and the wine remains a bit more angular than I like. It doesn't have the oomph of the best years, but it's well balanced and at its peak.
Decanting: Good from the start, no extensive decanting needed. However, the best sips were the last ones towards the end of the evening.
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7/15/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 94 Points
Burned sugar, salted caramel and nice minerality. Fruit profile includes pear and raisin-like dark grapes. At the same time lightly built but with good tension and fine perlage. This felt nicely mature without really showing any nutty oxidation notes. This reminded me somewhat of a more mature 2009, more limited in terms of intensity and complexity, but still well made and offering plenty of drinking pleasure.
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6/15/2023 - JWS84 Likes this wine:
This was stunning and seemed to be at full maturity. I assume it still has some years left but I don’t know that there’s reason to wait.
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12/31/2022 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Last of the bottles, and I’m sad to see them go. This is in beautiful shape - fine bubbles, lightly stewed apples on the nose and the palate and very good length. Opened and decanted and then drank over the course of an hour or so. I have a few P2s left from the same year and look forward to those but, as with the standard wine, I don’t think there’s much of a rush.
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12/31/2022 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 90 Points
Drank over a leisurely afternoon in the run-up to New Year's Eve. Advanced yellow gold colour. Almost no mousse but still plenty of energetic pinprick bubbles. Appealing bready nose with some nice sea breeze salinity and ozone in the background and yellow meadow flowers. Palate is quite vinious and lacking verve or excitement although a nice saline element emerges with extended time in the glass. However, it carries a surprisingly powerful and long resonance inside the head on the finish. Similar to when last drank from the same case at Chinese New Year (Feb 2021) but a lot less fresh. Confirms my view from then that this is not a vintage to keep but a is good way of moderating drinking down the 2002 and 2008 too quickly. 90 at a stretch.
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12/2/2022 - vintage_whine wrote:
Fully nutty bready tones, bubbles still quite exuberant, fruit verging to yellow and a bit bruised, which I mean is lovely not faulty. The acid is a bit low which is the only reason to drink it sooner than later, but otherwise it has the concentration and intensity of flavor to go for many more years
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11/25/2022 - weezie wrote: 91 Points
Nice but frankly disappointing. Corked was “pegged” and wine lacked zip. Bubbles were fine and overall wine was balanced and pleasant. But definitely lacked any “wow” factor.
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11/12/2022 - Hanibal Likes this wine: 93 Points
In a sweet spot here. The bubbles are fine and a slight oxidizing aromas showing up. The wine is complete...memorable.
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11/12/2022 - StiGGe wrote: 86 Points
Light white and green color of the body. Much light nature tastes, light honey, caramel, and white flowers.
The wine lacks complexity and its body its not to good. No dept in its body and very waterish. This might be the least good Dom Perignon of the all the different vintages of 2000s.
Very young wine, should be stored for at least 10-15 years more! I think this vintage will grow and mature very good in the future.
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9/18/2022 - swyang wrote:
A splendid champagne at its peak. Dom Perignon at 22 is about as refined and gorgeous as one could dream of a champagne. Supremely light and refined bubbles, aromas of mature fruits, nuts, honey, flowers and toasted bread in the time frame which shows its age and how beautifully it has taken the years into its body of finest bubbles. Exceptional and certainly memorable.
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7/17/2022 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 93 Points
From Jeroboam. This showed beautifully aged with delicate yet robust palate with fine acid, floral and nutty notes, joyous bubbles. What a treat.
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7/16/2022 - Rick & Ilsa wrote: 93 Points
Birthday bottle with friends. Smooth, fresh, crisp still, with apple, citrus, brioche and salinity. Medium bodied with enough acidity to remain fresh, this is starting to show it's age, and that's not a bad thing. Showing a bit of a smoky, tertiary layer that doesn't usually show up in the bigger vintages. Overall a good bottle, good friends, and a good time.
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7/14/2022 - srshane Likes this wine: 92 Points
Possibly past prime. Still delicious. Drink up.
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6/29/2022 - soyhead wrote:
nose- rich, honey, hazlenut
mouth - also honey, seems right in its drinking window. It was commented that the vast majority of Dom gets drunk before being ready. Here we have mature while not being tired. A 'happy' wine per S.
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12/19/2021 - chuckos77 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light pale color, perfect amount of carbonation, delicate. Paired well with a lobster bisque.
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12/17/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Holiday Champagne Gala (Park Ridge Country Club): In Dom Pérignon flight. Very fun and balanced with good weight, just on the simple side amongst the Dom Pérignon in this flight. Time to drink up. P2 tasted next was really shining tonight.
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12/14/2021 - SimonPh Likes this wine: 94 Points
Wonderful
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12/5/2021 - E94flu Likes this wine: 91 Points
Still had bubbles and freshness at opening. Apples at the nose and the longer (and warmer) it was open the broader pallet. Rusted, nuts, caramelized sugar, and a very well rounded experience
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11/16/2021 - The Vines That Bind wrote: 93 Points
Great bottle. Fresh. Classic brioche and toast. Surprised how youthful this still is. Open-knit, harmonious, lovely.
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10/10/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 94 Points
Dom Pérignon / Vosne-Romanée Tasting-cum-Lunch (Restaurant Slagerij De Beurs, Amsterdam, NL): Starting to develop a lovely tertiary complexity, tightly wound, macaroons, classic Dom Perignon, remarkably fresh, lovely balance and elegance, very good length. Lots of potential still.
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10/3/2021 - Rsweet wrote:
Anniversary celebration
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9/18/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 92 Points
A very fine vintage of DP but perhaps without the depth of the best vintages. Still, it's crisp with perfectly judged acidity and excellent intensity on the taut refined finish. Best with a hour of air and clearly with more development ahead at least from magnum. 92+
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9/6/2021 - r.o.man Likes this wine: 95 Points
Ageless. Smooth, fresh, polished, the balance is unique and perfect, everything in its right place and with perfectly balanced volume. No brown notes like caramel or wet leaves, the wine is fresh, lifted, rich and full palate, perfectly composed. Great at any moment and for 10 years at least. Very good.
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8/21/2021 - CGandur Likes this wine:
Last of a case. Still wonderful, a brilliant wine
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8/12/2021 - mye wrote:
Initially closed showing primary citrus. Air makes this shine and sing. Lovely pear, peach, lemon. Brioche/bread balanced with fruit and acidity. Yum.
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8/12/2021 - Satoshi Nakamoto Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drank way better than expected. Took about 30 minutes from the initial pop to pick up weight and character. Tons of rich fruit, gorgeous minerality, great balance, and a long finish. Damn, I want more.
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7/29/2021 - BenBlu Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really good showing but just paled next to a terrific 1995. The 2000 was quite fresh still, in a twilight zone of primary and getting more maturity. Should be very interesting in 5 years.
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5/16/2021 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
COVID-19 in the Rear-View Mirror...with Lots of Dom Perignon (Park Ridge Country Club): Very easy to enjoy with good combination of ripe and tart fruit, very good balance and good textures. Not an inspiring vintage, but certainly a good Dom Pérignon.
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5/1/2021 - wineappellation Likes this wine: 94 Points
Mid gold color. Lively fine bubbles. Complex now with a bit of evolved complex tertiary flavours of dried fruits, honey, creme brulee and grilled nuts, while still fresh with lemon, chalky minerals, pineapple, biscuit and smoky notes. Still have a long way to go.
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4/19/2021 - Strongbridge Likes this wine: 94 Points
94/100 12,5% Vol. from 0,75L, soft butter toast with honey spread
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4/4/2021 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine: 92 Points
Easter Sunday lunch, yeasty, nutty, fine DP, this bottle was mature & fully ready, drink up, not bad but not great
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2/12/2021 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points
Chú Xī (除夕) Dinner at Home for Chinese New Year (Our House, Hong Kong): Opened and drank over a home-made traditional Cantonese New Year dinner at home with friends. Light yellow gold. Bold mousse even in a white wine glass. Nicely lifted oyster shell , saline, minerally, both on nose and palate. Lots of Epsom Salts. Very enjoyable and it continually grew on me with extended time. Not a vintage for the long haul. I would drink this up soon whilst keeping my hands off the 2002 or 2008. 91+.
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1/29/2021 - Oscaro Likes this wine: 93 Points
Så fort glaset börjar hällas upp så slås man av en käftsmäll med krut. Efter att ha doftat på det fanns det bara ett vin det här skulle kunna vara.
Otrolig doft av krut, kakao, grädde.
Kraftpaket i munnen, fin syra och många lager som kommer fram samtidigt som glaset värms upp. Gissade DP 02 här då jag tyckte syran påminde mer om 02 än 00.
Efter att ha druckit den här ett par gånger de senaste åren så kan jag konstatera hur jäkla bra den dricker just nu. Det är stort, komplext och urtypiskt av Dom Perignon. Kommer säkert förbättras ytterligare men svårt att hålla sig ifrån flaskorna när de är så här bra.
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1/8/2021 - MarcelloW Likes this wine: 94 Points
This might not be the best vintage for DP, but this bottle was in the perfect spot. Light golden color, but still energetic with tiny little bubbles. Just pnp.
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12/31/2020 - Marshmallowman Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really good spot ... I’d drink soon.
Golden color, smooth, delicate with very small bubbles, minimal acidity.
Raw pizza dough, carmel, honey, apple, vanilla, bread.
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12/31/2020 - BenU Likes this wine: 93 Points
I don’t have a lot of experience of drinking Dom Perignon but this was a beautiful champagne. Rich, smooth and biscuity with tiny bubbles and just the right amount of acidity to keep the balance.
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12/25/2020 - llink wrote: 90 Points
Popped and poured over a 2 hour period. Medium yellow color, the mousse is subtle and soft. Some oxidation on the nose, but the pleasant yeasty bread or pastry crust variety. Light touch on the palate, lemony with a subtle chalkiness. Good but not exceptional and it appears to be ready to go.
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12/12/2020 - sachsmart Likes this wine: 95 Points
Crisp melons wet stone and nice finish.
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11/28/2020 - mattikenator wrote: 94 Points
2000 drank in November 2020.
I am not an expert on Dom Perignon's but in my experience, 2000 is in perfect condition now.
Beatiful golden color, butter and and some savagning-kind of nose with a version of tertiary notes, fresh acidity, adding green apple in the palate on combination with the nose, good amount of bubbles still.
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11/6/2020 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
I'll admit, I really thought this would be baby killing. Yes - the 2000's don't have the longevity of some vintages, but still, we like our wine old and our champagne the same way and so I was sure that this was going to taste really young. But surprisingly, not really. It was actually drinking incredibly well. Had some good age, some good freshness. I would have called it older than it was and in this instance that is a good thing. A nice way to start the night.
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10/26/2020 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Last of the magnums, taken from the fridge and decanted and drunk as it warmed. Tiny bubbles. Rich, honey-like smell as it warms and even more so when drinking. Likely, even in in a big bottle, to be right at its peak (but the plateau that follows could easily last another decade). A beautiful wine.
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9/19/2020 - grapenomad wrote: 90 Points
Plucked right off its peak. Deep golden in the glass with still very persistent bubbles. Nose is showing strong development - brioche, caramel, dried apricots, figs. A richer style of Dom with a sleek string of acid still singing. Medium depth at this point and a slightly short finish. Drink up.
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2/25/2020 - asheio wrote: 92 Points
Complex, butter, citrus, creamy texture, still nice bubbles. Drink now.
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2/22/2020 - Burgnick wrote: 90 Points
In magnum. Brioche, yellow fruit and white flowers. Even in magnum format, I dont see much upside from aging further.
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2/8/2020 - SL81 Likes this wine: 97 Points
Outstanding champagne! intense caramel taste. Wow...
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2/1/2020 - wihong wrote: 93 Points
Deep yellow gold. Aroma of fresh cut hay, butterscotch, mint and vanilla. Palate entry of grapefruit, pips and brioche. Mid-palate with vanilla, mint parsley and caramel. Long finish of butterscotch, lemon, vanilla and ginger. Full body, great sweet and acid balance with long finish, still have a few years to go.
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1/18/2020 - evold89 wrote: 92 Points
Nice golden straw yellow with small and slow rising bubbles.
On the nose the 2000 vintage is open and seductive, reaching a nice state of maturity. Alluring smell of apples with a touch of citrus and brioche. Showing some age on the nose, but this will keep well for a number of years. Very textbook Champagne with delicate chalkiness.
No big surprises on the palate corresponding nicely to the nose. Nice mix of apples and mineral driven finish. Showing some age and complexity, but it is not as impressive as the gorgeous 2002. Mid-weight structure, long finish and a beautiful mousse makes the 2000 so inviting now. This wine has a certain roundness to it and lacks slightly in precision, which maybe due to 2000 being a ripe vintage? Don’t be mistaken this is well-made Champagne!
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1/1/2020 - Bellalisa99 wrote: 93 Points
Delicious
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12/28/2019 - UTPK wrote:
Very good bottle. Fresh and young. Great mousse, held up for many hours. Mature, expansive nose of rye bread and toast. Palate is full bodied but with plenty of acidity. Not as far from the 2002 as I remember.
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12/26/2019 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 91 Points
Boxing Day Lunch at Home with Friends (Our House, Hong Kong): Straw-gold colour. Generous but quickly dissipating mousse as served in a wine glass but it easily returns with some swirling. Fruvious and long-lasting beads of microscopic bubbles. Nose is beautifully toasty - brioche, fresh-baked yeasty brown bread, warm straw in a barn. Palate is similar toastiness, but underlaid with a lovely fresh citric acidity, hints of ozone and oyster jus. Heady resonance and good length on the finish. It is eight years since I last opened a bottle from this case and I'm surprised how youthful it still is, which is not what I predicted in 2011. However, it didn't hold up in the glass beyond an hour so I don't think this is a vintage for extended cellaring (although I have extended the 'drink by' date to 2025).
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12/25/2019 - mphatic Likes this wine:
Cork. No formal notes.
Light golden colour; relatively youthful.
Brioche, lemon, apple, and nuts. A touch musty upon opening, but after some breathing cleared up and gained richness. Mousse persists for a while after pouring.
Drinking well. Showing a bit of age, but likely to last another dozen years.
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12/24/2019 - strijbosmh Likes this wine: 93 Points
I always like Dom. My 9 year old son noted some caramel on the nose. His first assessment ever
Best Xmas eve ever!! Gonna have him smell Pol ROGER Winston Churchill '02 tomorrow
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10/11/2019 - mmh wrote: 90 Points
During the first hour this was rather closed. A bit flat as well. With air, it opened up nicely with a complex nose with ripe grapefruit, gunpowder and some yeast. Same elements on the palate as well, good acidity with a citrus cest feel. Fairly light and elegant. I would say that this is at or slightly past its peak. (Bottle has been stored in a 12 degree cellar for over a decade before popping today at my 40th birthday).
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10/5/2019 - EvanJB wrote:
Wonderful
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7/13/2019 - Rmcolin Likes this wine: 91 Points
Achei levemente passada, mas estava muito boa. Com bom perlagio, acidez e sabor.
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5/26/2019 - wilypod Likes this wine: 91 Points
Plump and dense. Elderly on opening but got a lot younger with air. Finely dissolved mousse. Roasted nuts, grated ginger, mulled brown-spiced cider. Un grand vin de contemplation complexe et intriguant plutôt qu'attirant sans équivoque. 91-93
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5/24/2019 - Jonne Likes this wine: 92 Points
Vi firar lilla Vera med bra grejer. Citronkarameller, brioche och en uppstramande syra gör detta till en välbalanserad skumpa.
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5/16/2019 - Rick & Ilsa wrote: 93 Points
Light gold with a fine mousse. Green apple, honey, brioche, citrus, with still enough acidity to have that fine DP flinty finish. This feels entirely ready now and although I'm not sure it will improve, this should stay here for several more years. Not as big as the '96, 02, or even the '06, but this is really quite good.
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5/2/2019 - SGoenophile wrote: 94 Points
Dinner at Imperial Treasure TPC. Golden straw colored. Mouthfilling with fine mousse, zesty notes of brioche and citrus fruits. Pleasantly evolved, richer, has good weight without the sharp acidity of NV or younger vintage champagnes. More complex than a 2009 DP recently tasted.
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4/20/2019 - GNBB wrote: 92 Points
Light golden yellow in colour, showing a little age - very gentle pétillant. Rich, flavoursome brioche nose with light tropical fruit - intense. Palate showing light bubbles, very clear & attractive toastyness - some light citrus (lime) & gentle pineapple. Long, long persistence. Very good & fully mature.
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3/2/2019 - champagne99 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Dracks under en halvblind provning av Dom Pérignon 00, 02, 03, 06, 08 och 09.
Lite mörkare i färgen än övriga årgångar och långsamma bubblor. Doften var distinkt och mycket men jag hade svårt att sätta ord på det som vanligt. Omdömen från de andra var rostat, mognad, komplex, citrus, nötter, mycket, hög intensitet och utvecklad. Smälte verkligen i munnen, mognad och inte lika besk som de andra flaskorna. Jag gissade på 00 eller 02. Eftermiddagens vinnare då fyra av oss, inklusive jag, hade denna som favorit!
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2/24/2019 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 93 Points
Sunday/Daughter's (35th) Birthday dinner with family.
My last two bottles and showing excellently. Persistent foaming mousse, russet apple, green herb, bready nuances and an almost saline minerality. All perfectly integrated with plenty of zesty acidity for balance. Has broadened out since its last outing in 2016 and is much the better for it.
Fully mature and for drinking over next couple of years.
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1/18/2019 - Victor Boasquevisque Likes this wine: 92 Points
Fine bubbles of good intensity. Honey, caramel, bread and citrus. Structured, creamy, alcohol slightly present, high acidity and medium-long finish.
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1/8/2019 - ravikalaga Likes this wine: 90 Points
Not as complex as the 08 or fresh as the 09 but still decent finish and a great mouthfeel.
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12/31/2018 - Paui wrote: 92 Points
Bottle in god condition. Good not great. Lacking complexity
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12/31/2018 - Dom JeB Likes this wine:
Drank it the day before new year. At the same time we had a 2003, 2006 and Cristal 2002. The 2000 Dom Perignon was better than expected, the same with the 2003
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12/28/2018 - canan wrote: 95 Points
Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Great intensity. Fresh and still feels very young. Creamy and lots of butter.
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12/26/2018 - sburtt Likes this wine: 94 Points
drinking perfectly now and will drink for many more years if properly stored, beautiful color and balance, really sings in the glass with a little air
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12/14/2018 - pren wrote: 91 Points
和92一起喝的,开瓶30分钟。都是较深的黄色,这个还有一点气泡在杯中。酸度不是很突出。气味不明显。整体比较干净。
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12/11/2018 - efeldhake@yahoo.com Likes this wine: 91 Points
Straw in color. Austere nose of bread dough, pears, and hints of apple cider. Tastes of pears, apple, and hints of brioche and straw. Pronounced acidity, light on bubbles, nice mouthfeel. On the decline, but still lovely. Drink now and over next 3 years.
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11/28/2018 - Burgundy Al wrote: 91 Points
Jordan's Fine Wine Dinner (Boka - Chicago IL): Good array of orchard fruit aromas and flavors with good+ richness and balance, also good length. Rounded and soft textures, very easy to enjoy right now.
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11/27/2018 - Borgstroem wrote: 80 Points
Over the Hill. Few bubbles left. But fine delicate mix of almonds, straw, appels..
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11/24/2018 - Vino Me wrote: 93 Points
Opened by AllRed. Fresh and lively at 18 years old. Notes of citrus with fine minerality. Moderate bead. 93 points.
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11/23/2018 - AllRed wrote: 93 Points
Dinner with Friends: Various 2000s: The official bottle opened to kick off our celebration of the 2000 vintage. Brief note. Apple and ginger; touch of biscuit. My note doesn't do this justice. For my palate this is at peak. 93-94 pts.
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11/17/2018 - robertek wrote: 92 Points
Dom Perignon is always good although this is not the best vintage. Typical nose though ...
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10/13/2018 - Papies wrote: 94 Points
Annual Piemonte Trip - 2018 Edition; 10/12/2018-10/14/2018 (Piemonte, Italy): From magnum. Proper star factor here and a great way to kick off our launch at Ciau del Tornavento.
A year since we had this last and still performing very well. Good ripe feel, vibrant on the palate , yeasty side, light feel and with honey touches on the finish. Elegant as always and super solid. 94
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10/7/2018 - dlduchon wrote: 91 Points
Wonderful, complex and fun to drink. At a good point now. All in balance.
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7/17/2018 - vinhonotte Likes this wine: 92 Points
Meowseng’s retirement - Tea reception (Singapore Airlines): medium gold, fine beads; acidic, light, rather pronounced, good length; lemon, zesty, bread dough, straw, limestone, brine; nice!
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5/28/2018 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Lovely crystalline and mineral nose. Fleshy palate with minerals, pear and citrus. Great body. Lacking the extra edge of complexity to take it to the next scoring level.
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3/4/2018 - Frank Schneider wrote: 95 Points
This has improved !!! I liked the brioche and creamy bubble !!! Good acid backbone. Will stay there for years ! Drink or hold
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3/3/2018 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drinking well now in a relatively open knit fleshy style. Toast, minerals, pear, autumn leaves and flowers. Increasing complexity. My sense is though that this will be faster maturing than surrounding vintages like 2002.
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1/9/2018 - phill mz Likes this wine:
developing some colour in the glass, rich round palate needing food to complete the experience. Very nice
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1/3/2018 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
SLDS GC NY Traditional Tasting: Peach, earth, musky florals, lemon and chalk. Good power and punch on the palate, plenty of flavour depth. Really nicely balanced power and length. Drinking really well now.
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12/28/2017 - mukden wrote: 90 Points
UNCONVINCED. Second last bottle of the six I bought a good while ago. In previous years, I thought , maybe I have opened this too soon, and while it has gotten better over time, I still found it disappointing (esp given the price). I would still prefer an NV Bollinger to this, and at parallel price levels, you would have a really nice wine from Bollinger. The overwhelming impression is the acidity, which is great and attractive, but only goes so far. After then I have never detected much fruit or indeed much complexity. This was clearly a good wine (I drank the leftovers as a flat white the next day, and it was good), with good bubbles at 17 years but at 100+ I expect something less subtle.
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12/28/2017 - ozyloy wrote: 92 Points
Clear pale lemon.
A nose of apples, almonds, and a touch of citrus and brioche. Developed(?)
Medium(+) acidity, medium(+) body, medium(+) flavour intensity with red apples, lemon zest, cream and almonds on the palate. Medium(+) finish.
This has put on some age. Bright and racy on entry, yet nicely rounded in the mouth. Impeccably balanced, and open for business now. But considering the pedigree this could have done with a little more complexity - and at this point, I'm not sure if it's got much more positive development left. That aside it was all in all still very enjoyable.
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12/3/2017 - Frank Schneider wrote: 93 Points
Good sparkle ! Not the best bottle but we ll see the next one .
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10/31/2017 - Purple Tooth wrote: 92 Points
Very good and interesting...Clean, well aged, and still fresh. More waxy than nutty, with very bright acidity. Lacked the complexity that I as hoping for after 17 years under cold lockdown. Cant see this getting much better without sacrificing something else. Drink or hold?
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10/8/2017 - psmith wrote: 93 Points
I haven't had this in a while and am pleasantly surprised. It's more of a young adult now, but with classic Dom lines of salinity and smoke, though it's also very citric in character. The structure is unusually pronounced for 2000 and actually clips the length to some degree. There's a dominant backbone of acidity and a slight, nagging confected note on the finish. It's improved since release, but I'll probably hold off on any more bottles for a few years more with the hope that it can still soften some and pick up darker, more textural components.
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10/1/2017 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Drank to celebrate some good friend's engagement. There is something about Dom where once you get a bit more age to it, it's really something special. A lot more interesting than the younger versions. More complexity. Nicer toast. The bottle went fast and was well enjoyed.
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9/15/2017 - jafny Likes this wine: 90 Points
Enjoyed for wife's birthday. Classic DP, remarkable bead, creamy texture. Elegantly showing its age one of the better DP's I've had recently. Toasted almond, wheat flavors with a dash of fruit. I would say don't hold too long.
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8/25/2017 - sdr wrote: 89 Points
Mark's bottle. Awfully light and delicate at age 17, I wonder if this vintage of DP will ever gain weight and become more interesting. The flavors are light wheat thin with a bit of lemon peel. Pleasant, though. Let's hope for positive development in the long term.
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7/26/2017 - GNBB wrote: 91 Points
Get coming into maturity & showing really well. Drink now-2022
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7/17/2017 - DAN BAILEY Likes this wine:
Broader and darker coloured than the 02 with a bruised apple note on the nose. Quite a broad mouthfeel too with lots of slippery oyster shell tones.
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7/17/2017 - SimonG wrote: 90 Points
DP @ Medlar (Medlar, London): Darker initially. Full straw. Ripe and quite open. Seems to broaden and fade with air. Not helped by glass. A touch of mushroom. Just a bit flabby. **** on first taste but settles back to ***1/2 with air. Needs a more traditionally shaped glass.
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7/9/2017 - Pacmn Likes this wine: 93 Points
Very enjoyable.
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6/16/2017 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 92 Points
In the beginning fresh but later a little bit sweet, broad and pungent, typical toast and oyster notes, guessed vintage 95, 92-93
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6/16/2017 - Frank Schneider wrote: 94 Points
Have not had this for a Long while. It developed very well. Really nice structure , tension , acid and body. Not only citrus . There is brioche and nuts . Lovely . Has a Long time to go . No hurry
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6/10/2017 - mclanew Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful toasty, crushed rocks, apricots, mint. Very fine with increasing complexity and lovely layering. Won't last as long as the 02 though as this is rounding and maturing sooner. This one is in a pretty good drinking window now in my view.
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5/20/2017 - Papies wrote: 94 Points
We haven't had this wine for 4 years now (Last note a 94 but also a few bad bottles) and we were so happy to see it has blossomed more and is now a top notch wine. Rich and yeasty but with a full polished acidity underlying the wine whoch keeps it fresh and vibrant and with a mineral finish. Its definitely softer on the edges but a wine that will make everyone smile. 94-95
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4/29/2017 - ews3 wrote: 91 Points
Richer and quite a color contrast with the younger Bouchard. Caramel and nutty notes with some mushroom. More yeasty. Nice finish.
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4/22/2017 - GNBB wrote: 93 Points
Medium+ intense nose of apples, honeysuckle with light, ripe melon. Excellent toast/brioche notes. Palate is round with good weight. Ripe acid with lovely tropical notes of melon and pineapple. Fresh in the mouth with good persistence. Feels like it still has room to develop but certainly drinking with aplomb now. Now-2022.
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4/18/2017 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:
green/ gold colour
Great nose - lemons, oranges, floral notes and lemon rind
Lovely little bubbles pop on the tongue like caviar
Very creamy texture, rich but also grassy notes - Vincent Chaperon said 'vegetal' also "between fruit and freshness"
Long, layered finish, hazlenuts
Really excellent
Disgorged 2007
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3/6/2017 - Fred_Bo Likes this wine: 94 Points
Delicious spices, fresh pressed coffee and salivating mushroom funk!
This had just about anything you're are searching for in bottles likes 1988 and 1990. I was so surprised by the maturity of this bottle, wow!
Wish I had more. This was a pure joy. It only got better throughout the night!
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2/1/2017 - yinha Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drinking beautifully. Had the pleasure of enjoying this with friends, accompanied by Delice Bourgogne, Comte 14 mo and duck pate. Lively, delicious, pleasurable - a bit sweeter than expected, vibrant fruit
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1/21/2017 - fcxj wrote: 90 Points
Enjoyable.
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12/31/2016 - swaap wrote: 90 Points
Amandes grillées, agrumes, pomme, pêche, arômes tertiaires, anis, réglisse puis floral à la fin. Bulles ultra fines et petite amertume en arrière bouche. À boire.
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12/6/2016 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 92 Points
Two bottles from my cellar consumed in Sullivans with the Weybridge mafia - closing on Thursday after 30+ years as the proprietors retire. Where are we going to eat on Tuesdays and Friday lunchtimes!?
Much as my earlier note of this year, the length of this wine is phenomenal, in the mouth easily outlasting the food consumed and the white wine accompanying it.
Excellent but not for very long haul unlike the finest vintages. 92?+
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11/7/2016 - DrinkBordeaux wrote: 93 Points
Third dinner of the L.A. wine trip (Bel-Air, California): Perhaps lacking the verve and layers of more recent vintages such as 2002 and 2004, this wine still held its own. It also didn’t have the overpowering acidity so often seen in younger vintages. Lemon curd, brioche, honeysuckle, and a slight nuttiness round out a very balanced bouquet. And while the acidity is still a bit high, this is a wine that will only get better over the upcoming year.
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10/21/2016 - Zweder wrote: 93 Points
Consistent with my previous notes; beautiful citrus and mineral. Beautiful acidity and pleasant almond and grapefruit bitterness in the mature finish.
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10/15/2016 - slywka7 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Aromas of toast, salted nut, brioche and creme brûlée. Flavors of salted nut, slate, mineral and toast. Ends with a nice finish with a saline note. Not ideal storage on this but showed no ill signs.
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10/5/2016 - tcarter Likes this wine: 95 Points
Totoraku Night (Totoraku): Not as transcendent an experience as the last time I opened this, but still a phenomenal bottle of bubbles.
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8/6/2016 - mclanew wrote: 93 Points
Flowers, peaches, brioche. Lovely fleshy mature champagne with nice acidity balance. Drinking in its prime now.
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8/4/2016 - SLIMES Likes this wine: 92 Points
Peach and white pepper. Very reminiscent of vintage Moet. Not outstanding but in a very nice place right now.
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6/14/2016 - Charogers Likes this wine: 94 Points
So so good. And so refined. Beginning to develop a little age - no bad thing.
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6/12/2016 - wihong wrote: 91 Points
Color: gold, very effervescent fine bubbles. Aroma: Fresh lemon peel, citrusy, cheese, jasmine, honeysuckle, ginger with air exposure. Palate Entry: Brioche, citrusy. Mid-Palate: Ginger, honey lemonade. Finish: Vanilla, white pepper, floral, minerals. Drinking well now, honey, obvious brioche, nice acidity, good complexity.
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6/4/2016 - MattGeneve Likes this wine: 91 Points
Smells of the sea! Oyster shells. Fresh and lightly fruity nose. Some honey. Creamy and rich on the palate. Some tightness but nice persistence and softens on the palate. Seems to be evolving in the glass to something richer, less tight and softer. Long with a lovely rich aftertaste.
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5/14/2016 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 92 Points
delicious fruit in a well integrated way
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5/9/2016 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Vosne 1er Cru Dinner (Nikki's): I have had quite a few bottles of this over the years, and this was probably the best. The 2000 has really developed from a solid but unspectacular DP to become a really nice drop in recent years. The nose had a nice character to it, with creamy aromas along with apple, strawberries and a little spice. Very attractive. What really struck me about this bottle was how fresh and youthful it felt on the palate though - there was a still a refined mousse with a tiny bead, and a lovely brightness to its maturing flavours of strawberries, yellow pear and a little touch of honey. Really fresh I thought. The overt power of the vintage in its youth has dropped off, leaving behind a much more refined, integrated and very delicious mouthful of wine. It got a bit clunkier when left in the glass and warmed up - this is a wine that should be drunk about now and at an appropriately chilled temperature.
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4/13/2016 - NickBurwood Likes this wine: 92 Points
62nd birthday apéritif at home before dinner with family at Pennyhill Park.
Fine beaded, excellent appearance. Both full and refined with flavours of russet and cider apples, brioche and dry zesty core. Still quite tight. The extreme length screams quality.
Close to its plateau with 5-10 years ahead of it and probably an extra point or two. 92+?+
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3/29/2016 - Alex Barbera Likes this wine: 89 Points
DP 2000 Yellow AW-Edition
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3/13/2016 - Joe_btsplk wrote: 89 Points
I think this might be great if stored perfectly for the last 15 years, but starting to fade/faded/oxidizing if not. Buy carefully and don't overpay.
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2/15/2016 - galenico Likes this wine: 92 Points
Da Magnum.
Lemon zest, fiori bianchi e zenzero. Poi tanto calcare lucente, fresco: sensazione di estrema adolescenza.
Anche in bocca è ancora giovanissimo, acidità prorompente, tesa e finissima. Al momento il naso è sicuramente più espressivo; mentre in bocca la consistenza e l' allungo sono garantiti più dal pérlage che dagli aromi.
Da attendere con fiducia, ma è sempre un aperitivo di gran prestigio!
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1/16/2016 - Double D wrote: 90 Points
A dry style champagne and light bodied....hard to coax much but pleasant enough, starting to have some oxidizing tastes and scents so probably time to drink up.
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1/2/2016 - jhogan wrote:
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12/27/2015 - jbroich Likes this wine:
Magnificent, best bottle so far
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12/18/2015 - Rogershkg Likes this wine: 90 Points
OK frankly nothing special
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11/27/2015 - Purple Tooth wrote: 92 Points
Creamy, still bright, descent acidity, not much middle umph, lacks any mention worthy complexity...Nothing super special now...
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11/7/2015 - A Martin Likes this wine: 97 Points
Bulle fine, pétillante, vin sec et racé. Au niveau de sa réputation.
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9/21/2015 - geppetto Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very classic tasting DP. This certainly was showing well this evening, but there were absolutely no indications that it is even remotely tired. I could have held this for years.
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9/21/2015 - Ludi Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dorato, finissimo perlage. Naso esemplare di mineralità fumé e gessosa, miele, giandujotto, erbe e fiori di campo, tartufo, croissant, mandorla. Cremoso, ha grandissimo equilibrio, anche se la freschezza non è esemplare
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6/17/2015 - Drink&Trade Likes this wine: 95 Points
Beautiful Apple, citrus. Just a lovely example of Champagne.
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6/14/2015 - Pacalet wrote: 91 Points
Tasted in magnum, still rather tight nose with pear and citrus. Fine mousse, elegant and not a big Dom, finish slightly lacking. Perhaps still too young to be consumed?
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6/6/2015 - don_quichotte wrote: 91 Points
Very serviceable - don't remember much. I wouldn't buy it at today's price.
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5/16/2015 - BuzzzzOff Likes this wine: 93 Points
Wow, this bubble is sipping beautifully now. Toasty, creamy and smooth. Sipping better than the 1999 and will last for quite a few more years.
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5/1/2015 - Milliontown wrote: flawed
My first ever Dom.
Corked :'(
Opened for a special occasion too, but I held my tongue and happily enjoyed it, as I didn't want to offend the host. But all I could smell was wet cardboard.
Sigh.
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4/22/2015 - dcwino wrote: 92 Points
Cheval Blanc and D'Yquem dinner with Pierre Lurton and Bernard Burtschy (Taberna del Alabardero, Washington D.C.): As Bernard Burtschy pointed out, this was pretty tight. Fresh white fruits, citrus, granny smith, white pepper and mineral. Medium concentration, fine mousse, good acidity and clean medium finish. It is interesting that the 02 has opened up beautifully all of sudden in the last few months where the 00 remains youthful. Also this is more linear/cooler but less concentrated than the 02. For my palate the 02 is superior, about three points higher in general. Still very nice way to start.
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4/18/2015 - yaCellar Likes this wine: 92 Points
Lemon, melon, so full, fantastic bubbles, thoroughly enjoyable, but horrible QPR. Was thinking of a better Champagne at less than half the price. wedding gift!
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4/17/2015 - tcarter Likes this wine: 97 Points
Peter Bothe's 40th Birthday (Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak in Glendale): Near perfect champagne for me. Loved. Paired beautifully with raw bar crab legs and shrimp.
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4/13/2015 - wirelesswine Likes this wine: 94 Points
Absolutely fantastic and in a great spot. Persistent bead, light golden color, fragrant nose, and lots of fruit on the palate with vibrancy that was exciting...more of a fruit driven profile than a yeasty one and did not disappoint.
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3/7/2015 - etyc Likes this wine:
1st Vivino Int'l chapter in Singapore (Sat. evening/night), Part-2 (Park Regis restaurant): After the incredible afternoon, this was a prelude/aperitif to what's to come over dinner. Nothing like the '85 Dom which kickstarted our afternoon adventure, this was still good. We got brioche, nuts on the nose. Fine mousse, bright acidity and a good dose of minerality and citrus on the palate. Maybe I'm wanting too much... but this didn't have the complexity of the '85, or the power/depth of the '90. Nonetheless, a nice drink to start the dinner!
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3/4/2015 - hsacks Likes this wine: 93 Points
Light yellow color with a very lively, fine mousse. Aromas of summer melons, minerals and yeast. Rich but beautifully balanced and structured fruit in the mouth with great depth and persistence on the palate. This powerful yet lithe Champagne was delicious with the outstanding food at Little Fish Restaurant. Still very youthful, this wine may rate an even higher score with a few more years of bottle age.
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2/24/2015 - AWBryce Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose of earth, light coconut, old green apples and a touch of yeast. Creamy on the palate, good fruit, very light effervescence, solid finish.
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2/15/2015 - Veg wrote: 95 Points
Gorgeous !
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2/13/2015 - AlanM68 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wow! Outperformed expectations. Smooth, rich, very together, great length. Drinking perfectly from a decanter - some air and a chance to warm from fridge temperature.
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1/16/2015 - Barry Rothof wrote: 92 Points
LUNCH @ CALLAS (The Hague): This DP has a ripe soft texture with nutty, toasty and ripe peach flavors all in balance with soft acids. Sumptuous, rich and ready to drink.
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1/9/2015 - Burgaddict wrote: 92 Points
Leiden visits New Years Lunch in The Hague: Typical Dom Perignon, always a feast to drink! Fresh nose, citrus, brioche, soft mousse. Taste also fresh, citrus, minerals, creamy, elegant.
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1/3/2015 - Zweder wrote: 93 Points
Regular dinner group (By PvD @ Savarin): Completely blind, but what a pleasure to have this wine in the glass again. Beautiful citrus and minerals in the bouquet as well as on the palate. The wine develops in the glass and a bit later there are some pleasant reductive impressions and almonds. Nicely dry. A beautiful and mature Champagne.
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1/3/2015 - justburg wrote: 90 Points
Birthday dinner at Sichuan Douhua. Yellowish gold. Nose was slightly muted, with good acidity, minerals, green apples, lemon and whiffs of butter. Palate had some age, but with good freshness and acidity. Kiwis, lemon cream, meringue intitally, after time there were more secondary flavours like toffee, butter, toast and oil. Lacking on the mid palate, and seemed to lack that extra bit of complexity I would expect from an aged Dom. Good wine.
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1/1/2015 - Fastmarc wrote:
Was past its window. Had to dump unfortunately.
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12/31/2014 - cweiss Likes this wine:
NYE Eastman. Deep and satisfying. Good acidity. Drinking well but certainly life ahead of it.
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12/16/2014 - birchler wrote: 92 Points
Extrem gut. Trocken aber nicht zuviel.
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12/3/2014 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 94 Points
Lighter golden color. Very fine mousse. Beautiful nose of brioche, ripe pear, citrus, minerality, a touch of mint. On the palate there are notes of pear again, peach, minerals, apricot, chalk. It's medium-full bodied and elegant, with medium+ acidity. Small bubble and a very refined mousse. Long finish that ends with a touch of bitterness adding complexity. A very pretty Dom Perignon that is ready to drink now.
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11/23/2014 - hajoha wrote: 93 Points
Spennende tiltalende nese med bra intensitet.
Flott konsentrasjon, og friskhet.
Lang finish som prikker godt i munnhulen.
Ved release var jeg ikke imponert.
En slags metallisk element som forstyrret. Kommet seg veldig, og dette er bra! 92-93p
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10/18/2014 - Genghis88 Likes this wine: 91 Points
CAD Thanksgiving @ Chez Carmichel's with the Gang
Clean, clear, fresh, effervescent, green apples, slight brioche
Oyster shell minerality, steely, tightly wound, metallic, gooseberries
Medium finish, yeasty
We all enjoyed the night's opener. One can never go wrong with a bottle of Dom
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8/31/2014 - jlgnml Likes this wine: 94 Points
Jumped out of the glass, yeast, cellar tone, full body, really developing and had this 2x this week and a good wow factor.
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7/23/2014 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Whites and Fish @ Tonny's (Tonny Restaurant, Geylang Lor 3, Singapore): Yet another bottle of the 2000, and this was as consistently good as it has been over the past 2-3 years or so. It had a gently sweet nose of ripe red apples and strawberry flesh laced with a little smokiness and some mineral scents, with just the lightest floral note trailing on behind. The past few bottles have been showing an increasingly resolved palate, and this certainly continued the trend – it was round and generous, with a fine mousse that it just beginning to lose its vigour, and fleshy tones of red apples and sweet lemons. Lovely balance, even if it was clearly on the fleshier, less sleek side of Dom Perignon. There was just a little bright citrus edge showing the last vestiges of youth as the wine went past the midpalate, and then it trailed off into a long, minerally finish, with little kiss of warm spice and the tiniest linger of biscuity flavours. Very nice.
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7/12/2014 - Javachip wrote: 91 Points
Vigorous mousse that faded quickly. Impressive bouquet of fresh bread dough, apples, lemon zest, with hints of chalk and almonds. Similar on the palate, fresh, pure and crisp. Excellent but does not wow with its complexity. Perhaps this will improve with more bottle age.
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5/26/2014 - Vinsant Likes this wine:
Thanks SH! Really enjoyed this bottle. Light on its feet with some good acidity. Citrus, vanilla, light yeast, chalk, and saline. Well extremely well with beer cheese soup. Haven't had a bunch of Dom but think I'm a really big fan of the style.
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5/24/2014 - slywka7 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Aged Bordeaux, Cali Cabs and more with the Benchmark Wine Group in Greenwich (The Ginger Man in Greenwich, CT): Drank this after the d'Yquem and it was the perfect thing to have after it. Anything else would have been obliterated by the sweetness of the d'Yquem but the Dom really refreshed the palate. This was very nice and refreshing, not like the blockbuster 2002 I had last year. Didn't have the creaminess of that but exhibited nice pure fruit of pear and lemon along with toast and almond. A very nice Dom Perignon
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5/16/2014 - Sharmajd wrote: 93 Points
This is drinking elegantly and beautifully now. I am sure it has the potential to keep going. Classic Dom Perignon with no harsh notes. Apricots and pears on the palate. Very smooth.
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4/26/2014 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Lovely is the one word description for this beautiful Champagne. Beautiful citrus and minerals. Good bubbles and freshness, soft and very tasty. A lovely, hard to resist bubble. Ready now and the next few years.
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4/26/2014 - jkoenen wrote: 94 Points
Game and wine ('t Jachthuis, Eksel): Yeasty, fresh, open, candied lemon, clear présence of refreshing mousse. Very likeable and recognisable and complex. Impressive.
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4/4/2014 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot wrote: 93 Points
Smooth like butter, floral nose and just the right amount of bitterness.
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2/26/2014 - hankj wrote: 89 Points
I know the world loves this wine but I again found it good but largely unexceptional. Probably just me but if I'm in for wine this expensive I'll spend the extra $40 on a NV Krug (which to my palate is clearly superior).
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2/22/2014 - rnellans wrote: 92 Points
Yellow. Fresh with nice citrus aromas. Some brioche. Quite nice.
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2/14/2014 - CondorKhan wrote: 94 Points
Pours bright gold with lively bubbles. Big yeasty toast aroma. On the palate, initial notes of apple and poached pears give way to licorice, creme brulee and boozy dessert notes, perhaps drunken rum cake. Long, persistent finish. Complex and constantly evolving. And this is not even supposed to be a "good" year for Dom.
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2/9/2014 - pigdaddy wrote: 92 Points
platinum-gold w/fine persistent mousse; biscuit dough & grilled brioche, white orchard fruits, sweet lemon marmalade & toasted almonds, clean, restrained & impeccably balanced, on point. our penultimate bottle.
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1/18/2014 - CraigC_UK wrote: 92 Points
Light colour, citrus and brioche nose. On the palate, very elegant, complex, long, citrus, brioche, creamy texture. Quite different to other vintages I've tasted - less pronounced flavours but an excellent wine drinking beautifully now. No appearance of decline so probably good for quite awhile yet even though 2000 was not such a top year. Wish I had more.
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1/16/2014 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
It's been nearly 5 years since I last tasted this wine, and time has been kind, generous even. In a very good place at the moment, with no immediate threat of decline. Truth be told, I'm temped to use exclamation points (gasp) this was so good. With 30 minutes of air, this proved an exceptional blend of creamy, nearly plump apples, spice, chalky minerals and roasting nuts; each taste better than the one before. The tension, and focus offered here proved a terrific counter point to the gently softened, lightly spiced fruits. My only regret is that this was not from magnum. The one to open while the more age-worthy Doms are sleeping. highly recommended, thru 2019
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1/12/2014 - Haggis Likes this wine: 91 Points
This has really come around since my previous bottle 3 yrs ago. Wonderful aroma of bread, citrus, and a floweriness that I can't quite peg. On the palate, wonderful crisp apple, peach, yeast, Meyer lemon (i.e., semi-tart, but not sour lemon). Glad I waited the 3 years, but wish I had another one to open in the future.
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12/31/2013 - dzitt wrote: 93 Points
Légèrement doré, très fines bulles persistantes. Nez plutôt sur la réserve, mais bouche d'un charme fou ! Fruits, blancs, agrumes, arômes de pâte à biscuits, de plain grillé, d'une bonne concentration et que dire de la longueur ! J'en boirais tous les jours ! Généreuse offrande d'un ami, geste très apprécié.
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12/30/2013 - Ludi Likes this wine: 92 Points
Paglierino dorato, perlage fine, abbondante, persistente. Al naso caffè verde, nocciola, pera albicocca, crema pasticcera, agrume candito, pepe verde, zenzero. Bocca giovanile, intensa, cremosa, persistente sulle note agrumate
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12/24/2013 - petitblanc wrote: 90 Points
Showing plenty of smoky pinot berry component, more serious than fresh, lacking a citrus edge and depth of chardonnay. Certainly good Champagne, clean and elegant despite an odd touch of heat, just lacking anything extra to justify the price.
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12/20/2013 - swyang wrote: 94 Points
Very enjoyable indeed. The color has darkened quite a bit since last bottle, and the body, taste has gained considerable structure. Brioche, slight baking soda, very fine bubbles and delicious citrus, apple, and nutty taste all in beautiful harmony. It is getting ready to be enjoyed.
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11/30/2013 - jmprusko Likes this wine: 94 Points
lighter than a typical Dom
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11/29/2013 - Saturnus Likes this wine: 95 Points
Beautiful, toasty nuances. Smooth taste: the carbon dioxide integrated really well into this Dom, more so than in the slightly younger 2002. A delight to drink.
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10/19/2013 - ckinv368 Likes this wine: 93 Points
CT Offline VI--San Antonio Edition (San Antonio, TX): Crisp, floral, citrus, notes of honeysuckle, lychee, honey, and wildflowers. Smooth, silky, really quite enjoyable. Good acidity that shows this one may have some more maturing to go. Drink now, or hold over the next several years prior to opening. May have a long life ahead of it operating at a high level.
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10/19/2013 - GalvezGuy Likes this wine: 91 Points
CT Texas VI - Return to San Antonio; 10/18/2013-10/19/2013 (San Antonio): Nice nose of lemon, pear, hints of toast. On the palate, soft with pear, lively citrus, and roasted nuts. Clean finish. Very nice but seems like it is already at peak. Drink them if you have them. #3 of the Doms.
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9/2/2013 - Vinterest Angus wrote: 90 Points
Good as you would expect, but ultimately overpriced and very overrated. Is this just a champagne for people that don't know about champagne. Not nearly as good as either 02 or 03. Give me a PR Winston Churchill any day
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7/26/2013 - zarped wrote: 93 Points
Grande mineralité finesse et fraîcheur.
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7/18/2013 - RayOB Likes this wine: 93 Points
Drank in London
Crisp with a perfect balance. Fruit shining through the minerality. Superb
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7/18/2013 - guido23 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Mmmm, biscuity with a floral bouquet and very delicate bubbles. Scrumptious!
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6/22/2013 - Papies wrote:
we do not think our friends took the best care possible of this bottle so we will not complain about another average bottle of Dom 2000. Was rich and evolved and ripe but lacked depth and vitality we have come across in good bottles of this wine. A good 90 but not really representative.
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6/11/2013 - mukden wrote: 90 Points
MAYBE. Am I missing something but every time i have had this champagne, it always seems a bit thin, a sharp acidity that is not well balanced by fruit. I just don't get the attraction. we opened an nv bollinger and it seemed so much more flavoursome. is it an aging issue or is it just a naked emperor?
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5/21/2013 - RichardP wrote: 91 Points
Citrus and yeast; very smooth and easy to drink, but I remember the 1996 as being much richer and more interesting. Very good, but for the price it should be great.
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5/18/2013 - Papies wrote: 94 Points
Saturday night at The Papies (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Ah finally a good bottle! Dissapointing to be honest to have had so many misses on a 2000 DP. But Anyhow..
Colour shows some age but its the nose that is so captivating here, rich, ripe long yeasty, toasty notes across. On th epalate it carries the on the tune and actually feels a lot older than a 2000. A beautiful bottle great to be enjoyed now. 94 easy
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5/11/2013 - Papies wrote: 90 Points
We are not sure if there are issues of bottle variation here but the bottle,cork and all looked very good. The nose was on the light side, light toasty, rich fruit scent. Teh problem was that on the palate it had almost zero vitality. Where is that Dom precission and focus and life? Note sure what is going on here but not of Dom level. Maximum crouwd pleasing power though.. 90 performance this time round and looking at our notes a lot of variability over the last few years
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5/10/2013 - bongos Likes this wine:
Fantastic wine for what I consider to be an "off" vintage. Yellow fruits, roasted nuts, and bread. Plenty of acidity to balance the ripeness. Top class champagne that is a bargin at current pricing.
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3/7/2013 - Mr T wrote:
popped for my birthday...absolutely lovely. very tight bead and quite dry...very little apple and some brioche
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2/14/2013 - mxpbuy Likes this wine: 91 Points
So many more nuts (Hazelnuts) than the '99 vintage. Green apple, with still vibrant acidity with a little chalk too but the citrus is fading. I liked this wine more when it was younger.
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2/9/2013 - pavel_p wrote: 92 Points
Nice balance, fine bubbles, peach, medium finish.
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2/3/2013 - cmcmullen wrote: 93 Points
- Yellow color with small pearls. It's in total harmony with a medium body. Smooth texture with a long finish - Champagne night at Sharon and Bruce's - Feb. 2, 2013
Excellent champagne
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1/18/2013 - jwongham wrote: 89 Points
Not the best vintage
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1/7/2013 - Matt Neel Likes this wine:
Gold straw. Hugely gouttey, coppery, steely nose; masculine, but appealing; no butter or brioche, let alone oxidation. Palate fairly lean and clean, precise and mineral. Fine, clean mousse. Medium bodied with excellent length -- where it suddenly seems almost big. Years and years to go... (From magnum)
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1/1/2013 - gondrik wrote: 91 Points
nice but not a particularly great vintage for Dom
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1/1/2013 - r.o.man Likes this wine: 95 Points
Rich, full, deep and multilayered, incredibly fresh and long. Extraordinary. New year couldn't start better.
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12/30/2012 - KJO wrote: 90 Points
In Zermatt. Good. Fruit, sugar, acid in balance but this bottle had nothing special. Maybe it's because it's been stored in a very cold alpine environment? Definitely tasted like a Dom but just lacking excitement. A pale imitation of the 02.
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12/28/2012 - pjaines Likes this wine:
A lot of bottle variation here from my experience. This was very good with deep,yeasty, rich fruit backed up with minerals and toasty aromas. But is it really worth the money and kudos?
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12/26/2012 - Arthur4wine wrote: 99 Points
I do not know if this is the perfect Champagne, but I have never tasted any better wine. I opened this one for Christmas as a present to myself and my guests. It definite got Christmas dinner off to a festive start.
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12/15/2012 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
- Light gold color with small pearls - Consistent with prior notes. Crowd pleaser. Classic. Lovely soft and delicate bubbles. Toasty goodness.
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12/4/2012 - bmagic wrote: 90 Points
Nose - quite floral but heavy sensation of oak. Nice note of passion fruit. Pinot Noir easy to taste. Overall, very pleasant.
Palate - cooking apples and breadsticks. Good mouth-feel. Long finish. 90 pts.
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11/26/2012 - pdellacroce wrote: 90 Points
Nice nose with lots of citrus floral hints. Nice balance and soft fruit taste.
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11/10/2012 - Vintomas wrote: 91 Points
Goose dinner with friends (Stockholm): Nose: noticeably toasted with toasted hazelnuts and some toffee, cocoa powder, rather ripe fruit, some spice.
Palate: medium bodied+, ripe yellow fruit - mostly yellow apples, apple compote, slightly spicy, some mineral, a hint of grapefruit bitterness. Aftertaste with apple notes and some mineral.
Nice development, rather foody style. It has gotten quite a lot of development since this vintage was launched a couple of years ago. However, it is not as firm, elegant or mineral as the 2002.
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11/9/2012 - dmalcolm wrote: 93 Points
Best bottle I've had of this so far. This has developed quite nicely with much more toastiness now present. Vibrant citrus fruit, red apples, honey, and a floral note. Very fine bubbles.
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11/3/2012 - Uglypinga wrote:
Toasty nose with some citrus and peach pit. The palate is ice and creamy with soft fruit and great acidity. Nice starter for a dinner.
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11/3/2012 - BradE wrote:
I've had this out of 750ml a few times and been somewhat underwhelmed, but two mags showed very well this week. Will have to give the bottles another try.
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10/30/2012 - Ryan D wrote:
Effervesence is still present, but certainly showing its age. Secondary flavors and aromas are emerging. Creamy, yeasty and mushroomy. These really emerged as the wine opened up. Suggest consuming at a warmer temperature than typical for Champagne.
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10/16/2012 - swyang wrote: 94 Points
The first of four bottles, and definitely the best Dom Perignon i have had. Beautiful energy, chardonnay presence. Already quite complex with toasts, iodine, very fine bubbles and transparent color which is matched by a transparent texture. a wonderful surprise.
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9/23/2012 - eguchrh wrote: 92 Points
- Yellow gold color.
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9/21/2012 - Alexis A wrote: 92 Points
Surprisingly full body vs Pol Roger 1998 Winston Churchill. I thought I could feel a lot of yeast and brioche, toasted. Color was rather pale, but I was surprised by how full the champagne was vs previous bottles. This was a Mag. I think I gonna save my other bottles cause this could be a pleasant surprise in a few more years...
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8/31/2012 - lirvingham wrote: 92 Points
Drinking side by side with the '90. Certainly a rough night. Nose is graphite, hazelnut, citrus, not nearly as much fruit as the '90. On palate, lots of lemon zest, lemon rind. Crisp but smooth on finish. WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE THAN THE '90. Crazy bubbles.
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8/24/2012 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
As before. Always amazed at the fineness of the bubbles. Drank a bit while eating cherries. Gave a real bitterness to the wine as well as sense of coffee on the nose. Will test with other fruits etc.
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8/21/2012 - dboatguy Likes this wine: 92 Points
Served and shared with bride and groom. Very good.
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8/5/2012 - JeffW wrote: 95 Points
Very nice. Balanced citrus flavors.
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8/4/2012 - tooch wrote: 92 Points
Saturday Afternoon w/ the Claffee's (SoNo East Apartments - Chicago, IL): Super rich and concentrated with great hazelnut, mousse, pear and truffle notes. The palate buzzed with energy, and displayed a richness that really turned me on. If you're into french toast, you're gonna love this wine.
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7/30/2012 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
Big and yeasty...lots of citrus, minerals and vanilla on the palate. Thought the palate showed a bit more than the other couple bottles I tried - nice fruit and great energy.
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7/29/2012 - Fishboy wrote: 90 Points
Very enjoyable. Needed a little time to open up.
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7/7/2012 - KeithAkers wrote: 91 Points
Celebrating Bob's birthday (Maude's Liquor Bar, Chicago IL): nose: nice and aromatic nose of pears, minerals, white fruits, citrus tones and bits of florals. Solid depth, but not all that layered.
taste: medium bodied with medium+ acidity but lacking a bit of a mid-palate. Nice and balanced with tones of pears, minerals, white fruits and some florals.
overall: A very nice dom, but not a memorable one. It's lacking some depth on both the nose and palate, but has a real nice balance to it right now and is accessible.
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7/7/2012 - tooch wrote: 90 Points
Bob's Birthday Dinner (Maude's Liquor Bar - Chicago, IL): Drank alongside the '98 Dom Perignon. This was a bit tight and took a couple hours to open up. Wasn't as complex or exotic as I had hoped - but had the typical weight for a Dom with nice herbal, bready and orchard fruit tones. I said this a couple times over the course of the weekend, but decanting this probably isn't the worst idea.
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7/6/2012 - tooch wrote:
Pop and pour. Had lots of energy and power on the palate with great brioche and mousse tones. Needed air, but drinking it outside on a 100 degree day wasn't really smart!
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7/6/2012 - jshufelt wrote: 93 Points
Enjoyed a glass at Le Bernardin to start the evening off. In the glass, pale gold. On the nose, notes of apples, fresh rainfall, minerals, and secondary notes of mushroom and yeast. On the palate, bracing on the attack, quickly rounding out on the palate to become full-bodied, with citrus and apple notes, and an almost Chablis-like flinty note; however, the palate didn't have as much going on as the nose did. With said, still a very nice glass of champagne, just perhaps not giving as much as I was expecting.
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6/17/2012 - UTPK wrote:
Less rye bread and toast, also less depth than usual for DP. Certainly not up to the standards of 1996 and 2002.
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6/4/2012 - pjaines wrote:
Distinctly average bottle. The nose was very impressive with restrained Bready aroma and some.minerals but on the palate this was all bubbles and fizz. Very disappointing.
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5/31/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Milton's Birthday Dinner (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Excellent. This bottle was back on form after the rather forgettable one we had towards the end of last year. In fact, it was probably the best of the six or seven bottles that I have had so far. It had a beautiful nose, rather telltale Dom Perignon, with ripe apples and strawberries alongside more developed aromas of honey and toffee, some caramelly hints, then beautiful earthy accents with white meat nuances, shades of smoky mineral and a nutty, yeasty back-note. Very nice. The palate was perhaps a little less developed, slightly younger tasting than the nose would suggest, but it was very delicious - with a typically subtle gentle mousse carrying nicely fleshy white fruit and appley flavours laced with the tiniest waft of strawberry. It was fruity up-front, but past the midpalate, this was more marked by streaks of earthy, stony minerally streak with a little drift of lemon and flower blossoms floating alongside into a wonderful finish with tons of length on it. This was very fine indeed. The 2000 DPs have really come a long way from their rather unconvincing youth. If they continue to develop along these lines, they should make quite wonderful Champagnes in 5 or 6 years' time.
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5/26/2012 - PC73 wrote: 92 Points
Yellow tint in the glass. I'm always amazed at the Soft bubbles of DP.
Hint of pineapple and grapefruit on the palate as well as Slightly honeyed.
Very enjoyable.
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4/25/2012 - DemeesterWim wrote: 92 Points
Very good, as always. The structure and mouthfeel is very balanced. 50-50ish in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Nice small bubblelines and toasty, zesty and little tropical fruit aroma's. Will easy do another 5 years in the cellar.
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4/10/2012 - Guyc wrote: 92 Points
Well I rated this high as it marks a great occasion, still have a couple in the barrel for the get together but wanted to crack one open to share with my wife. I was told that champagne of good quality has bubbles that rise only in the center of a glass.. What a load of crap that was :-) Anyhow, I could get used to this, I expect to have a head like a robbers dog tomorrow and that's alright by me ! Light, fresh, crisp and much more delicate than the bubbly I am accustomed to..highly recommended !
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4/5/2012 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Mouton 86 vs Lafite 89 and some other friends (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Maybe its bottle variability, or maybe its aging but this time it felt a lot different than almost a year ago.
Well round this time, almost like an early 90s krug, more of a burgandy wine than a sharp Dom. Very toasty, rich and long. Well round and has lost a bit of its sharpness. Still very enjoyable. 92-93 and drink at will.
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2/15/2012 - Mennotas wrote: 90 Points
Drank to celebrate birth of our second son. Not sure how this influenced rating. Light color. Nose was appley, mushrooms. Definitely different from NV champagne. Mainly in length. Perhaps more aging would have made me feel differently. In any case I now conclude that this is not good value for money unless one values status. Wine is very good but there's a lot of NV out there that is much better value for money. I guess I am cheap.
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2/14/2012 - tward wrote: 89 Points
Wonderful, expressive nose of citrus and stone fruit, clean, bracing mouthfeel and a modest finish. Very enjoyable. This bottle does open up to show more complexity after an hour or two, while the bubbles are persistent if poured gently from the bottle. So it's worth taking time with this one. That said, even though my experience with champagne (methode) is limited, I've had better for much less. IMO low QPR.
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2/7/2012 - jpcairney wrote: 90 Points
I drink a lot of champagne. That's not a boast but here in the UK there seems to be a deal every other week on this French sparkling wine. All of it, I have to say, is non-vintage but I have hit upon some fabulous NV of both famous and relatively unknown champagne houses.
As such, drinking a vintage bubbly is always reserved for a special occasion. I have always been suspicious of any review that references such an event. For example, if you are a couple on honeymoon, don't even bother posting on Trip Advisor; you're too 'loved-up' to make any rational judgment on a hotel/restaurant & your review is therefore automatically null and void.
I say all this as an admission that this bottle was saved for a special occasion, which happened to be my birthday. It was an aperitif whilst waiting for my birthday meal and, immediately upon pouring, the light honey colour showed that this was a champagne with a little more depth than the usual NV.
It was smooth and subtle in the mouth, yet leaving a lingering tickle on the palate. This was an 'ah' type of wine, since each sip was followed by the aforementioned satisfied sigh.
I have always found champagne difficult to appraise since the bubbles and occasion seem to get in the way but this was a beautifully constructed and executed example of vintage champagne.
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1/29/2012 - winelover206 wrote: 87 Points
not impressed... not sure if slightly turned
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1/26/2012 - Bowmanifesto wrote: 94 Points
On a very important day in our lives, Beth and I shared this bottle of Dom Perignon tonight. It was glorious and beautiful, outstanding in every way. The shimmering pale gold in the glass, pinpoints of effervescence glistening, as aromas of fresh bouquets and summer showers tantalize the nose. On the palate, delicate lemon with fresh-picked apples, backed by biscotti and glazed pastry, and notes of mineral on the lengthy finish. Really spectacular. Magnifique.
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1/21/2012 - Bisty Likes this wine: 92 Points
Tasted blind.
Good minerality, reminiscent of Dom P from a weaker year, however not as good as in top vintages. Ought to have higher acidity and less fat fruit to gain the normal 2-3 extra points for elegance and finesse.
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1/3/2012 - esol wrote: 90 Points
Popped and poured into Burgundy glasses. Focused and refined expression of citrus and mineral. Reminiscent of a young, barely oaked, Grand Cru Chablis. Hints of faint mushroom and toast emerge with time. Improved as it opened up and provided a spicy, lingering finish. Still a young and disjointed for my palate but the structure is clearly there, it just needs time. Will not touch another bottle for at least 5+ years. 90+
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1/1/2012 - xtype wrote: 89 Points
My review might be tainted, having recently tasted DP 99, 95, and 96, however, I just cannot get behind this vintage and think that you can do much better than it outside of DP for under $100. Definitely opens up after a few hours and everyone agreed that it was much more approachable when tasted in an open white wine glass (vs. champagne flute.)
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1/1/2012 - St Paul wrote: 93 Points
This was tasting so good as the New Year champagne in Ho Chi Minh City. Coffee, mushroom and red berries. Quite mature right now so it is very approachable and good drinking.
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1/1/2012 - Sool wrote: 95 Points
Excellent
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12/29/2011 - astroman wrote: 93 Points
Champagne Tasting (Waterford): 50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot, 84 months on the lees with no oak. Focus and intense nose with yeasty high notes. Like scotched oak and brown sugar. Mineral like wet granite. Long long finish with precision on the palate.
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12/26/2011 - matt7756 wrote: 95 Points
Soft creamy bubbles. Toasty, toasted sesame, light citrus grapefruit, dried mango, peaty, white pepper. Toasted nori on the palette, slight grapefruit, light mushroom.
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12/24/2011 - Didman wrote: 90 Points
Very nice. Pale yellow, fine bubbles, lovely flavor. Just what you would expect from Dom.
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12/23/2011 - stiang wrote: 88 Points
Emmen finish. Plump.
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12/17/2011 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
Still hard and Ungivinng. Not a little grumpy with red apples , white stonefruits and still fresh. Not easily lovable.
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12/13/2011 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points
December Birthdays (My Little Spanish Place): Still pretty good, but this was one of the weaker bottles of 2000 DP that I have had. It must be said that it did have a lovely nose as always - flowery aromas, creme fraiche, strawberry and red apple scents, earth and mineral, all unfolding in gentle layers. Beautiful stuff. The palate was rather full, rich, a bit big, especially when put next to the supermely elegant, charming 1991 Billecart Salmon that we had alongside. This showed gobs of fleshy green apple fruit, pears and lemons on the attack and midpalate before a bit of flowers peeked out in a nice long, slightly yeasty finish ringed with spicy notes. Very mouthfilling, with impressive depth, but I thought this lacked some of the fresh balance and verve of top vintages like 1996 and 2002, or even when compared with other bottles of 2000 that I have had. Nevertheless, still a very good wine, just not quite up to expectations given how this vintage seemed to be on an upward trajectory over the last couple of bottles.
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12/13/2011 - Yme wrote: 93 Points
Pale yellow with very fine beads. Excellent bouquet of brioche, lemons, chrysanthemum and pebbles. Excellent balance with a lovely mouth feel. Fresh tasting apples, yeast and lemon palate with a very long citrus and mineral after taste. Very elegant.
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12/13/2011 - alain@driesassur.com wrote:
extraordinaire. Du champagne de 2000. Bu avec Margaux 12/12/11
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12/11/2011 - Papies wrote: flawed
Corked. Shame
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12/9/2011 - emkc wrote: 93 Points
Drank 2 bottles and bottle variation is very evident. This bottle is excellent. Ready to drink. Toasty nose and sweet peach aroma, balanced with the right level of acidity. Elegant! The second bottle did not drink as well initially but got better after one hour in the glass
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12/9/2011 - emkc wrote: 93 Points
Drank 2 bottles and bottle variation is very evident. This bottle is excellent. Ready to drink. Toasty nose and sweet peach aroma, balanced with the right level of acidity. Elegant! The second b
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11/24/2011 - Santafewiners wrote:
Drank this great Champagne with our family for Thanksgiving. Excellent with the turkey, though not as great as I expected.
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11/24/2011 - mxpbuy wrote: 93 Points
Sampled 11/24/11. This wine has improved and is now seemingly starting to hit its plateau. Wonderful lemon and orange peel with green apple. Vibrant acidity that is well balanced. It might not be as long lived as the '85, '90 or '96, but it certainly is proving to be better than I originally thought it would be.
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10/28/2011 - PC73 wrote: 93 Points
Brioche. Toasty. Touch of almond kernel. Hint of Licorice on the finish.
Very fine and soft bubbles.
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10/8/2011 - vanpe003 wrote: 93 Points
I continue to like the style from this house more than some more knowledgable champagne folks. This bottle is another example. For me, perfectly balanced. Medium weight with a bit of nuttiness, the right amount of sweetness. Drinking more mature than the 1996 Deutz opened the following day.
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10/2/2011 - pakabear wrote: 93 Points
Typical Dom flavors, great citrus, nice acidity and always good balance.
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9/17/2011 - Goldstone wrote: 90 Points
Classic and typical Dom Perignon with a languid mousse and developing a nice bronzed colour. The nose is alluring very lightly toasted white bread with the crusts cut off. Toasty palate with some lightly roasted hazelnut. This is just starting to emerge from early adolescence and is starting to put on the merest weight. Always a pleasure to drink.
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9/16/2011 - deanmillson wrote: 94 Points
My first bottle of Dom. Comparing it with a 98 La Grande Dame I had recently this is not as yeasty, a little fresher with more mineral, citrus and acid. Both fantastic but both different. Another 5 years would probably round things out and make it absolutely amazing, but this is more than drinkable now.
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8/22/2011 - Genghis88 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Casa Carmichel w/ (Damon, Kristina, Teresa, & Renotcka)
Green/Gold, Bubbles were plentiful
Green apples, citrus, some typical chablis notes showed as well
Very dry, Chalky, high minerality, great acidity
Palate cleansing
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8/22/2011 - Meno wrote: 96 Points
Excellent, fresh, sparkling, citrus. Served at a champagne dinner with veal and scallops which was an excellent choice. The best champagne of the evening outperforming by far Roederer Cristal 2000 (which was served for desert) which was quite astonishing to me as Roederer was(!) long time my favorite champagne.
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8/22/2011 - mathwonk wrote:
good but overpriced as usual. much better, and cheaper, was 1998 la grande dame veuve clicquot. I noticed robert parker's antonio galloni disagrees and gave 94 to dom and only 90 to la grande dame. i make bold to suggest you might profitably take my advice though. the veuve is richer and more flavorful, but the dom is lighter if you prefer that. Omigoodness I seem to disagree with myself on this same wine from last december. ??? I have no explanation.
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8/9/2011 - hrl wrote: 92 Points
Very subtle and ethereal. Lots of citrus, a little mineral, and enormous freshness. Better than the previous bottle I had of this and a good example of normal vintage Dom.
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8/6/2011 - Lord of the Bottles wrote: 92 Points
Smooth, fruit, gameyness, chalk, nice acidity. Evolved in the bottle and opened up.
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8/3/2011 - ADiamond wrote: 90 Points
Nice mineral and citrus, a little young but still drinking very nicely
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7/2/2011 - Papies wrote:
A trip around France in 9 wines (The Papies, Elizabeth St, London): Young for sure.Focussed, sharp. Mineral with citrus notes. Lots of things change Dom though is a Dom.
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6/27/2011 - Tad GW wrote: 94 Points
50+5+13+18+8=94
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6/20/2011 - vollis wrote: 88 Points
It is a good wine. BUT there was less concentration, complexity, acidity and length than I expected. The mousse was very good with small bubbles.
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6/19/2011 - WetRock wrote:
EWG: Decadence (Conrad Green's Abode): I'm not a huge fan of this, at least in the context of what you hope it to be. Its a nice enough Champagne in the abstract but it falls far below good vintages to me. Yes, it needs more age but I don't see a lot of upside here in the way of depth, concentration or interest. Trademark sulfur nose. Big powerful bubbles with strong apple notes. I swirled and coaxed it for a while to no change. Tons of NV farmer fizz out there that blows this off the table for less than half the price.
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5/26/2011 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
In a beautiful place right now. Creamy lemon, hazelnut, great finesse and length; even from this lighter year a graceful wine with a balance, intensity and energy that are rarely equalled. At The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall, UK.
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5/24/2011 - DanH wrote: 90 Points
Not quite as good as I would expect.
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5/21/2011 - Oenologist_wineNONmaker wrote: 83 Points
Cannot say it was bad, bubbles were very fine, flavour was good, but not as complex as I expected. Not too much flavours, quite mature already. You can find much better at a much lower price. Well, quite disappointing...
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5/16/2011 - Grinner wrote: 95 Points
Tart citrus, white peach, minerals, and dough/yeast linger on and on. Amazing mousse. Balance is great, and it still seems very fresh.
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4/25/2011 - livewire_au wrote: 97 Points
as one would expect from a wine with these credentials, this was a delightfully floral wine at the front with a long delicate creamy finish. Bubbles are fine and seemingly everlasting. Very solid wine. Recommended for a special occasion in spite of price.
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4/24/2011 - JeffW wrote: 94 Points
Lemon peels, smooth mousse, really clean finish that hangs on...has improved in the last year.
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4/16/2011 - Lord Rayas wrote:
Dinner with Warren, Martin, Eric, Philip, Andy and wives (TBLS): Mousse less refined than 1996.
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4/7/2011 - G_H wrote: 88 Points
what a dissapointment after the 2002... Good champagne but nothing spectacular
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3/20/2011 - Vinomane wrote: 92 Points
Very solid but can't compete with better vintages. Lovely tropical fruit is its greatest strength.
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3/9/2011 - canan wrote: 93 Points
Excellent and still quite young. Plenty of fresh grapefruit and green apple with hints of freshly baked bread. High in acidity and overall a good solid backbone.
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3/4/2011 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
2011 BMDP Charity Dinner and Extras (Meritus Mandarin and then John and Elaine's): Very good indeed. Drank with strawberries and cream over a post-dinner poker game. Unlike the previous bottle, which was absolutely singing, we did not have the time to decant this. It was also served in flutes rather than white wine glasses (my preference these days is always for the later), which must have muted is somewhat. Nevertheless, it still showed very nicely indeed. Nose was all nuts, earth and red apples, while the palate had more primary lime and lemons along with a nice stream of minerality to add to the mix. Lovely balance and substance all around. The finish again took on the deliciously, nutty, yeasty notes picked up on the nose, especially with the strawberries, which seemed to call out a shaved almond flavour in the wine. Yummy - this keeps getting better.
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3/4/2011 - Alex H wrote: 85 Points
Grippy white stonefruits and very fresh bread. Still tight and racy. Needs time. Very fresh.
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2/14/2011 - tbabes wrote: 92 Points
Notes of apple, citrus, mineral and toast. Medium-bodied, with good acidity, a pleasing texture, and good depth of flavor. Great balance, and a long and well delineated finish. Will improve for many years to come.
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2/12/2011 - Lord Rayas wrote:
Chris/Jackie dinner with Kevin/Kathryn, Julian/Ada (28/F 創興銀行): Pleasant if unspectacular
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2/6/2011 - Barry Rothof wrote: 90 Points
@ Hotel des Indes, The Hague, the Netherlands…..Vivid yellow gold in color. Dynamic mousse with countless, powerful and persistent, small bubbles. On the nose lots of delicious fruit and very refreshing. On the palate great strength and length, again lots of (candied) fruit, refreshing and elegant, with a superb balance. The ultimate aperitif, It also combines refined with lobster, crab, caviar, oysters or turbot. Needs a little longer to mature in the bottle for more complexity..
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2/6/2011 - cadamson wrote: 90 Points
Drank a bit warmer than I would like, which probably impacts the score. Nice acidity with light citrus like hints. Needs some years to flush out and add some other notes to the palate. Still, elegant and showing promise.
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2/5/2011 - jc-mmb wrote: 93 Points
very nice bottle. some nice toast and lemon lime tropical fruits on the nose. nice acid, tropical fruits and a toasty palate. finshes a little abruptly. probably too young.
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1/12/2011 - Uglypinga wrote:
Nose of toast and some citrus. The palate is crisp and clean, almost salty. Hints of citrus and apricot but very faint fruit flavors. Eh.
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1/11/2011 - pdemaio wrote: 91 Points
Somewhat dissappointing, but still a solid cuvee. good bones, but nothing particularly exciting given other vintages I've tried.
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1/11/2011 - grapist wrote:
For 65th B'Day at Joe's
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1/2/2011 - foje wrote: 93 Points
denne hadde vi julaften 2010 , dette er vel noe av det bedre jeg noen sinne har smakt , crisp masse florale dufter , flott lang ettersmak , første som slår meg er gjærbakst , men den forsvinner ganske fort , da er alt det beste igjen . synd dette var siste flaske WOW
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1/1/2011 - psmith wrote:
Medium body. Surprisingly Chardonnay-like flavors and clarity that seem more noticable than in other bottles of this I've had. Light oyster shell and smoke. Enjoyable.
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1/1/2011 - mdobro wrote: 93 Points
ausgeziechnet like previous one , very good for celebrating New Year
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12/31/2010 - jrobs7777 wrote: 91 Points
New Years Eve Cabernet and Dom Blowout (Our House (2033 Brandywine St., Philadelphia)): In the middle of two great Doms and this was definitely overshadowed. A nice wine in its own right but it simply did not stack up to the 96 and 02 Doms. Toasted bread, oatmeal, lemon and citrus. Nuttiness on palate with citrus and apple. Nicely concentrated but did not exhibit same complexity, concentration and power as other vintages. Nice citrusy finish.
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12/31/2010 - ews3 wrote: 90 Points
New Years Eve Lobsterfest! (Roberts House, Philadelphia PA): interestingly, this was more developed than the '96 -- it seemed older than it should be at this age. mushroom, some green fruit, and not quite as much acidity as the other two. some nutty notes.
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12/31/2010 - TexasBob wrote: 91 Points
Almost clear with a slight green tint. Smells like dough laced with gooseberries. Wonderful acids mixed with a bitter green fruit element and yeast (approaching marmite for (*&^s sake). Strong lemon elements. I am not a champagne drinker, but found this quite nice.
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12/31/2010 - mathwonk wrote:
I opened 4 bottles of wine tonight, this dom, a 2001 la mission haut brion, a 2006 corizon cab, and a 2008 andrew will sorella. The dom was the clear hit of the night, and the second place winner was the sorella. In comparison to other (less expensive) champagnes I have had lately, such as the Charles Heidseck reserve, the Perriet Jouet, the Genet, Bonville, the (french) Roederer, I liked the dom best - more flavor, which my wife called mushroomy. It reminded me of a champagne a friend had aged in his cellar and brought to a dinner. Domaine st michelle is really good for $10, but for $125+ this is better, not 12 times better, but better. Enjoyment is not measured on a continuous scale however, and this one crosses the ahhh... line. Still the first glass is more spectacular than the second....next day we continued celebrating with pierre moncuit and 1996 duval leroy, but the dom is still our favorite. oddly it also seems the best buy, since the price of $125 is about what i remember it being 10 years ago, whereas no other wines we like have held anything like the same price for that period. the 1996 duval had a strong flavor but not as smooth and subtle as the dom. By the way I preferred this to the 2002 we had a little while back, but i am not a champagne drinker usually. I have also noted a good way to spoil your enjoyment of a good wine is to drink several good ones together, since only one will shine, whereas separately all will shine.
...later: We liked the 2000 Dom so much I sprung for another $125 bottle, but the second bottle was unlike the first, i.e. it was not smooth but strong and a bit rough. same vintage, same store ....what gives ???
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12/31/2010 - PC73 wrote: 91 Points
Fine bubbles. Like soft cheese soufflé on the palate. Good acidity. Crisp. Yeast and brioche.
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12/28/2010 - canan Likes this wine: 95 Points
Champagne Brunch (@Terkel): Impressive and complex nose with butter, hazelnut, smoke, coffee, green apple and burnt butter.
Equally impressive palate with burnt butter, fresh green apple, hazelnut with a long acidic aftertaste. Good balance.
It has an almost creamy texture to it that is very adorable.
Lovely wine and even better than I had expected!
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12/28/2010 - chevalblanc1959 wrote: 94 Points
Good colour, beginning to show a more golden hue. Very lively, good steady fine perlage. Still fresh, hints of vanilla and almonds with good fruit. Long and very very elegant, a keeper.
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12/28/2010 - bonjovibon wrote: 92 Points
Really good. Spectacular bubbles, I've never seen a bubble like that. Lovely nose of lemon and green apple. A bit of yeast and white flowers. The acidity must be domesticated and that's the point that makes me think that this vintage have years of life. I would like to drink it in 5 years.
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12/27/2010 - bunhiong wrote:
condition of cork is poor, dfs stock highly suspect, should drink up other bottle soon
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12/26/2010 - Randujar1 wrote: 90 Points
Great vintage! Well balanced acidity. Neutral flavor and very light taste.
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12/25/2010 - jlgnml wrote: 93 Points
Very clean color, not to toasty, young will develop over time.
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12/25/2010 - tplskylrk wrote: 90 Points
Light color. Typical mineral nose, crushed wet rock thing. Tight tart nose. Crisp w some sweet fruit in there. Bit of smokiness in there on the palate, acid, fruit all balanced, maybe a bit too tight right now, the fruit still gaining weight on day II. Today this does not yet earn it's wings, bit pricey for value. A solid vintage Moet is too close to this at half the price. Maybe more time will let this settle, just wound too tight even at day II.
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12/19/2010 - soyhead wrote: 90 Points
limited notes, a light citrus driven cuvee, with perhaps a very slight secondary aromas of caramel. Nice but not worth the asking price.
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12/15/2010 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 92 Points
Minneapolis Wine Club Champagne Tasting (Shari's House): For the price I am not a buyer and this is really young but the Henriot Vintage from 96 is better and half the price. Chalk, orange peel, minerals, and dough on the nose and palate. There is a creaminess on the palate and has a medium finish.
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12/12/2010 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points
Minneapolis Wine Club does Champagne (Shari's House): expressive nose of floral, mineral, toasty, yeast, apple, lemon, citrus. The palate is delicious, creamy, elegant. Really nicely balanced fruit, minerality, and acidity. This is excellent. My WOTN in a close race with the '01 DVX, DVX wins in a landslide on QPR however.
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12/11/2010 - mariolanza wrote: 91 Points
Really enjoyed this bottle. Plenty of fruit flavours, biscuity and lovely bubbles.
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12/10/2010 - vanpe003 wrote: 93 Points
Shared 3 bottles of this at Palomino's "going out of business" party week in Minneapolis. No detailed notes, but a center of the plate pitch for my palate - not too dry, not too heavy / doughy, the slightest bit of sweetness. This wine has its detractors, but I'm a fan. The problem is I can't find this wine anywhere for as cheap as it was at the restaurant. "Half price on all wines" brought the cost of this one to $95!
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12/5/2010 - Backdoctor wrote: 94 Points
an exceptional champagne.
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12/3/2010 - solace wrote: 90 Points
slightly reticent nose, flowery and pleasant but not the bolder and forward style I like.
On palate - very fine mousse, elegant and lifted, more than the nose was giving. very well balanced fruit and acidity, sweetness but not cloying. very good palate.
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12/3/2010 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Kelvin's Bachelor's Party (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Really good. This was a bottle with the Andy Warhol labelling, but I thought I would post it as a "normal" DP as there is really no difference in the stuff within the bottle. Decanted it for half an hour before serving, so the bubbles had gone down, but if the wine's showing was anything to go by, the decanting really helped. This was by far the best of the 4 bottles that I have had so far. Lovely nose - walnut scents, white meat, red apples, citrusy lemony notes, a bit of yeast and white flowers. Typically pleasing DP stuff, and I think even more open than the last time I tried it. You could say the same of the palate as well. Super refined mousse made for a really nice mouthfeel, and it was deliciously juicy with lovely fruit sweetness showing in flavours of fleshy red apples, white plums, a bit of cherries, little hints of ripe lemons and some minerality, all nicely integrated, with just that a little bite of wheat biscuit at the very end. Very friendly, as befitting both the wine and the vintage, but with no lack of depth. This has really improved since the first time I had it. Very nice.
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12/3/2010 - PC73 wrote: 92 Points
Very fine bubbles
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11/28/2010 - darren81 wrote:
8.5/10 - This starts fruity and big with apples and lemon. Mid palate is structured with great toasty and crisp flavours. Dry without being achingly so. Great smooth mouthfeel with an unending stream of tiny bubbles. Mum never drank so much in her life till this wine.
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11/27/2010 - cellarbrator wrote: 91 Points
Too young. Nice crisp, granny smith's, but not showing much else.
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11/25/2010 - tbabes wrote: 93 Points
Notes of apple, brioche and mineral. Good depth of flavor, nice acidity / structure, and a long and focused finish.
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11/21/2010 - mdobro wrote: 93 Points
seems that this bottle is better than previous one , nose citrus and apple , crispy , very intensive mousse , very dry, long, very good champagne to celebrate something or nothing ;)
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11/17/2010 - AHSpiritus wrote: 88 Points
Too young!
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11/16/2010 - Dulcie and Aylwin wrote:
The Dom must deliver at the price it is offered, and to a degree it does. Refinement in the extreme, fine bead, fine flavors, minerality and citrus, long and lingering, exquisitely satisfying. All that said, I am not sure I would plonk down the loot myself.
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10/23/2010 - sbbulldog wrote: 92 Points
I love Champagne but don't drink enough to focus on the elements that require comparison. That said, my expectations were not high and the wine easily exceeded them.
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10/23/2010 - Greg Munyard wrote: 92 Points
Lovely wine. Profuse bead kept exploding from the base of the glass.
Palate was lovely; complex, yeasty and very approachable with very persistent, fine mousse and attractive acid (with nice soft edges and a great, clean finish).
Drank beautifully, at 10 yrs of age, without any hints of harshness. Super classy. Very, very enjoyable; the 4 of us all loved it - it "hit the spot" but the 2 males at the table thought that it didn’t have the intensity or “attack” of a Krug. However I do not want to imply that it was lacking - it wasn't. Clearly a premium wine and worth the money.
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10/20/2010 - Pacalet wrote: 92 Points
Toasty, crisp lemon notes and nice hazelnut flavors, this is on a nice uphill and will be even better in a few more years.
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10/9/2010 - Miceri wrote: 96 Points
Light yellow; very toasty nose; tasty, almost eating more than drinking, tasty frothy mousse; plente of taste, long aftertaste
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10/5/2010 - ErnestWorthing wrote: 89 Points
I was expecting big things from my first dom, however I found it too similar to many more ordinarily priced Champagnes. Very good, but for the money I'd rather have a Krug NV.
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9/28/2010 - Javachip wrote: 88 Points
Notes of fresh bread dough, matchstick, shiitake mushroom, green apple and lemon. Large, coarse bubbles -- too fizzy at first, then went flat too quickly. Overall, no better than a typical $30 champagne or even an $18 California sparkling wine. Disappointing at this price.
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9/28/2010 - mdobro wrote: 92 Points
I love small bubbles, it is really dry, don't know why but better than previous one, nose pear and citrus , very long, pity that I have no food
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9/27/2010 - BrandrB wrote: 92 Points
2010 Masters of Wine Champagne Tasting (San Francisco, CA): Straw-yellow color. Yeasty apple and mineral aromas. Medium bodied palate with apple, pear, lemon, mineral, and even a little mushroom. Impressive mousse. Beautiful long finish. A very elegant wine that feels a bit constrained at present. Definitely getting better, but also it’s definitely not yet where it needs to be for this prestigious label. I have difficulty seeing this ever comparing well with the 1990s-vintage Doms. Personally, I would think twice before purchasing this for either short term consumption or aging. That being said, it’s clearly evident this is a quality Champagne that I wouldn’t kick out of bed either if given a glass.
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9/13/2010 - Russell Faulkner wrote:
We started with a glass of the 2000 Dom, having had a glass a week earlier we knew not to expect fireworks, not that it is a bad wine, but it is not a great Dom Perignon. It has the hallmark slightly sinister brooding reductive elements that make me wonder why the marque is such a crowd pleaser when young. But it is a lighter style and seems to lack the depth of other young Doms, certainly the 98 and 99 were better at this stage, the 98 by some way.
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9/3/2010 - chayward wrote: 90 Points
Sparkling wine blind tasting: Tasted blind. Strong nose. Really fine bubbles. Good finish. Second best wine of the tasting, but not worth the steep price. 89-90
Go with the Roderer instead, which was ranked first and cost 1/3 the price. The 2005 Westport Rivers RJR Brut (from Massachusetts!) came in just behind the Dom, but it's less than 1/6 the cost. There's the QPR! This wine is definitely worth tasting blind, as the ~$150 price tag will make you think this is better than it is.
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8/30/2010 - ews3 wrote: 92 Points
IMW Annual Champagne Tasting (Christie's Auction House, NYC): lots of toast, red apple, really lovely sweet spice (nutmeg/clove) notes. somewhat nuanced finish is med(+) in length.
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8/26/2010 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 93 Points
Like the 1998 I had three weeks ago, this is surprisingly good. The wine is lively, with a crisp lime peel hint, and full of sea floor minerals.
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8/21/2010 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Still young. Conistent though with previous tasting notes
[ Fine, Elegant, Precise and mineral. And has maximum crowd pleaser status ]
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8/21/2010 - Law Man2 wrote: 88 Points
Very Good, indeed. Excellent, maybe. Value for money? No way.
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8/4/2010 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:
Full of posh toasty whiffs (I guess you’d call it pain grille). Lovely creamy mouthfeel with energetic, red fruits and bakery notes. Incredibly elegant with sneaky precision and power.
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8/1/2010 - peternelson wrote: 93 Points
Elements: Llight white bread, yeast, angel food; tuna oil; lite as a feather, frothy, minerally and chalky finish! seemed like slight t’s at end. Hiro’s B-day.
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7/25/2010 - Jagger082 wrote:
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7/18/2010 - Cosmo3 wrote:
Very nice from start to finish. Nose had good complexity, yeasty and floral with white fruits all in balance. The body was lovely and full without being heavy and a long, long finish rounded it all out.
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7/17/2010 - clarktoews wrote: 93 Points
exceptional! not too dry and loads of flavour
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7/17/2010 - psmith wrote:
Citrus with a slight honeyed orange component. Bold styling. Crisp finish provides support. Contrary to my last note now seems very Dom in style. Nice wine.
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7/16/2010 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Taste at Elysian.
Still a winner. Nutty, dark caramel, green apple and pumpernickel bread. A dark yeasty quality.
Palate is really nice. Long finish with great balance and acidity. Again, a lovely wine.
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7/15/2010 - Sleepy Dave wrote:
Dom Perignon Tasting at CW
Alcohol 12.5%
The regular cuvee of Dom Perignon is tight on the nose, display focus and intense aromas of white fruits and florals with hint of brioche and mineral undertone. Clean on the palate, the fine beads gently explode which caressing the palate along with its crystalline, pure texture with acidic finish that linger on the mouth. Still young an I believe another 3-5yrs will do the justice. While this is good, I wont pay for the price.
With times, this came rounder and more balance, with dry finish and hint of bitter lemon peel undertone.
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7/15/2010 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Slightly reticent aromatics of pear and apple fruit with gentle yeasty flavours. The palate is another matter - in the mouth it's an explosion of bright, pure fruit with touches of brioche and a savoury minerality beneath. There's a sense of real finesse and elegance here with a gentle silky texture and really good acidity beneath that keeps this very streamlined and precise. Lovely.
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7/3/2010 - Lord Rayas wrote:
PN/Esther dinner (Drawing Room): fresh and fragrant. very nice.
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6/20/2010 - Vinx wrote: 84 Points
The wine was O-K, but that is it. For the price paid i think you should be offered a lot more... The wine was very muted on the nose and did not offer a lot of complexity on the palate... Disappointed.
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6/8/2010 - Shellilayne wrote: 84 Points
It was alright... Not too spectacular. Made for a great date night on the roof after a fun day with parents and grandparents
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5/31/2010 - matter_mitch wrote: 93 Points
Solid and Smooth Champagne. Great pair with the clams, mussels & shrimp bake.
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5/1/2010 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Ultimate Parker in Singapore Mega-Tasting (The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore): Third try, and this was by far the best I thought. Nice nose, with typical DP friendliness - yeast, biscuits, some white meat inflection and plenty of lacy white fruit. Palate was very eager to please, Fresh and fizzy mousse, lots of upfront fruit with sweet lemons and peach and a touch of flowers. This had some weight on it and a nice concentration on mid-palate, and pretty decent length as well, with a little note of yeast to say goodbye. Surprisingly nice. Not a profound beauty, but no ditzy airhead either, which some DPs can tend towards.
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4/27/2010 - hlaburg wrote: 93 Points
Lovely mellow citrus notes with a bit of honey flavors wrapped up in a nice complex finish and very impressive for the vintage. This Dom will be even more rewarding with 5+ years of cellar sleep....
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4/26/2010 - G Kapoor wrote:
This had a very nice showing at the dinner last night. Beautiful color with a nose that developed over time to green apples, salty caramel, and pears. Same on the palate with a nice acidic finish.
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4/23/2010 - Roughl wrote:
Not half as good as the 96 I tasted a couple of years back. This simply was not worth the hefty price tag. Very good champagne with decent complexity, but more clean and crisp really on the flavour profile. You can find this quality at less than half the price. Nevertheless, i will never complain when I'm being served DP.
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4/8/2010 - hankj wrote: 86 Points
It's got nice chalky minerality, and lots of small persistent carbonation. Staid to the point of expressing almost nothing. There is nothing really wrong with it, but wine this expensive shouldn't make you go meh. As far as I can tell there is absolutely nothing special about this wine except the label.
For my 100+ I'd take a flyer on something different and more interesting next time -- Selosse Initial?
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4/3/2010 - Barolo Raymond wrote: 90 Points
On MH016 first class from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam, in the ealy morning hours. Definite notes of brioche and toast on the nose, straw yellow with miniscule mousse. A wide ranging attack encounters the palate with a silky soft elegant-effervescent texture, nutty notes and little sweet in the long finish, focussed. Great! Why not 1st class every time I fly?
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3/31/2010 - gsa wrote: 86 Points
Very muted nose on this bottle - not sure why
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3/6/2010 - mmh wrote: 91 Points
Close to 92. Very nice nose with lots of fresh citrus and some very ripe fruit. (It has a hint of the same funk i find lots of in Ruinart BdB.) A hint of gunpowder in the nose too. Quite yound and citrussy taste with some raw apple. The nose is better than the taste, but the taste is very good as well. Some fruit candy and melon in the nice aftertaste. It becomes a bit sweeter and better with time in the glass and with a rising temperature. Needs years to improve.
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3/5/2010 - VHJV wrote: 93 Points
I loved the powerful, elegant and precise nose. Taste hasn't yet developed to the same level, but this has fine potential.
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3/1/2010 - geppetto wrote: 92 Points
In cellebration of Canada's gold medal hockey win! Woo hoo... At that point of the night it could have been camel piss and we would have enjoyed it, but it was actually really good. This was the best champagne that I have had, but my experience has been limited.
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2/25/2010 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
Dinner with the Monthly Group (Park Palace, Grand Park Hotel): Putting my DP bias aside, this was actually really nice. Better than the last time I tried it six months ago at any rate. Lovely nose. Yeast, earth, white fruits, dusky strawberry tones - far deeper, and far more expressive than the Roederer Brut NV that preceded it. Mousee was fine, almost indistinct. Palate had plenty of biscuit and caramel notes, overlaid with a dry, structured spine and juicy acidity, and laced through with mineral and lots of juicy strawberry fruit and flowery top notes. A very expressive wine in true DP fashion. The dry minerally finish had decent length and closed the wine off rather nicely. Lacks complexity, as I noted with the last bottle, but this was well-balanced and delicious. Not a sophisticated lady, this was more like your playboy playmate gone legit. Still though, quite a pleasure to drink.
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2/19/2010 - Beavis77 wrote:
Fresh, yeasty and vibrant on the nose.
Clean and creamy on the palate. Nice minerality and hints of crisp apple. Long finish.
Here is the problem with this wine. Technically, this is a well made Champagne. The flavors are clean and everything is well balanced, but frankly, compared to other Champagnes at the table, this is just kind of boring. Nothing that makes it stand out or interesting.
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2/19/2010 - dmalcolm wrote: 92 Points
Elegant, creamy, and delicious. Consistent with previous bottles tasted.
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2/18/2010 - madeiradog wrote: 90 Points
Dinner with Bernard Burtschy (Taberna del Alabardero): Still very tight and one of the least expressive Dom's I have tasted. Good balance but very simple.
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1/25/2010 - MatthewF wrote:
Consistent notes as three weeks ago. A nice Champagne when you want to serve or give something with label recognition, but thats about it with the 2000.
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1/21/2010 - beezer6 wrote: 92 Points
Taste at Elysian.
Next day from the bottle. Still plenty of carbonation plus it had a night to open up.
Enjoyable classic DP nose of brioche, yellow apples, light honey, barnyard hay and light yellow and white flowers.
Palate is more weighty showing some richer baked breads and more yellow fruit.
Finish is pelasant and medium to full bodied showing lovely acidity and length. Still overated and overpriced.
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1/15/2010 - Ahvus wrote: 91 Points
Just drank a bottle on a normal friday night with a good friend in front of a warm fire. The DP started quite good and elegant, albeit a bit closed. It only got better and better and (as usual) the last two glasses were pure delight. The perfect bottle to drink amongst good friends with good food on a non-special night, not to be wasted with Holidays and related philistines ;).
Should only get better in 2-5 years. Will keep the rest of the case/box locked in the cellar for a couple of years.
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1/12/2010 - jawlz wrote: 90 Points
Very good champagne. Great color. Dry, clean, and crisp, with nice mineral flavors well integrated. Not a great QPR, but then it's DP, and more for special occasions than anything else.
Not as good as the '99 vintage, but still solid.
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1/4/2010 - MatthewF wrote:
Yeasty brioche and lemon nose with some mineral as well. A lean citrus palate with good minerality and acidity, a decent finish, but unfortunately nothing special.
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1/3/2010 - daipayan wrote: 95 Points
Very good, bubbly, drank two bottles with chopped vegetable / crab salad. Nice pairing.
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1/1/2010 - dmalcolm wrote: 91 Points
Clean and crisp with nice mousse, but not as creamy or complex as a previous bottle.
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1/1/2010 - Haggis wrote: 91 Points
Despite being a bit youthful (I'll save another bottle of the 2000 for a few years), this was showing nicely after an hour. Good citrus foundation, with hints of pear and peach. A tart lingering finish, with a tad of smokiness (or was that from the fireworks?!) that was quite refreshing. Hold for 3-5 yrs.
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12/29/2009 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points
Binny's Champagne Night (Binny's Highland Park, highland park IL): nose: some nice doughy tones strike right off the bat along with tones of baking spices, pears, apples, citrus tones, and bits of minerals. Very good depth and balance right now on this, and has a more refined quality to it
taste: Polished and clear tones of dough, baking spices, minerals, apples, lemon drops, and bits of pears. Extremely well balanced with a precision to it right now and medium+
overall: This Dom could really turn into something with about 6-8 years of rest. There is a real good clarity to it right now, and if it can get deeper and more mature, this could be a real beauty
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12/25/2009 - nick&nora wrote:
We don't drink DP by the case load, but we've been drinking it several times a year for the last two decades or more. The 2000 we had on Christmas 2009 was hands down the most disappointing bottle we've had. We knew the 2000 wasn't a 1996, but this was just so basic. The 1998 and 1999 are both better. Maybe this just shouldn't have been declared a vintage. There was essentially no complexity, none of the yeasty goodness we've come to enjoy. It was a fine sparkler, but it wasn't a £100 bottle of Champagne. Next time, perhaps it'll be the Krug.
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12/25/2009 - foje wrote: 97 Points
fantastisk , dette blir bedre og bedre , hadde denne julaften ,delte den med gode venner og familie , gleder meg til neste år
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12/24/2009 - sdr wrote: 89 Points
There's no doubt about it; DP is now more approachable young than in past vintages. This 2000 started out very promising with delicate yet forceful aromas of wheat crackers, brown sugar and lemon peel. Nice texture, too, plenty of pintpoint bubbles but not too gassy. Unfortunately, as it warmed, it got more blurry and soupy, losing much ot it's appeal. This is a difficult wine to read.
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12/8/2009 - Vino Me wrote: flawed
2009 Famous Liquors Champagne Tasting (Lombard, Illinois): Retailer tasting. Got the bottom of the bottle. Steely tasting and flat. My pour was probably not representative. NR.
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12/5/2009 - jwink wrote: 93 Points
It's a 92-93 point wine with very tight bubbles and it's still very young. At a minimum it can probably use 4-5 years of aging. Mineral rock, yeasty and sharp acid that cuts through any spicy foods.
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12/5/2009 - Papies wrote: 91 Points
Fine, Elegant, Precise and mineral. Enough said
And has maximum crowd pleaser status.
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12/4/2009 - Goldstone wrote: 89 Points
Dom Perignon Dinner (Nicholini's, Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong): Light lemony yellow couour. Yeasty and toasty nose. Sharp, precise palate, dry finish. Well balanced but very young.
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12/3/2009 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Binny's Champagne Gala Tasting (Binny's on Clark - Chicago, IL): Very impressive full rich body. Lots of toasty nuts and yeasty notes.
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12/3/2009 - amateurwino wrote:
smooth, nutty, yeasty; consistent with prior tastings of this
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11/15/2009 - gripNsip wrote: 88 Points
Couldn't separate itself from the line-up. Delicious but basic. Massive acidity, strong green apple flavors with bits of oak here and there. To young? I need to find that is in it's drinking window and try to understand what all of the hub-bub is about.
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11/6/2009 - subtlet wrote: 88 Points
11/2009 Champagne Tasting at Renaissance Wines (Renaissance Premium Wines and Cigars, Orenco Station, Oregon): Apples, pears, and a hint of oak? appear on the nose here. Deep, ripe, pear hits right away and becomes intense quickly on the mid palate. But, it fades quickly and is kind of disjointed. Lots of acidity shows throughout the entire experience.
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10/20/2009 - Atreyu wrote: 94 Points
Classic, crystalline and transparent. hints of smoke and cured pork
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10/19/2009 - fagerland wrote: 90 Points
Mainstream Champagne at Franks house (At Franks house): Nose: Oysters, candy, slightly mineral, apple closed.
Mouth: Fresh bread out of the oven, slightly bitter, firm, slim and clear structure with hints of apple and apricot.
Fantastic bubbles small and many that grow in the mouth. Can drink now but will develop. Keep.
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10/18/2009 - mukden wrote: 90 Points
YES but Wait. Young pleasant but should not have opened it. Developed a bit int he glass, good bubbles. Will not try again for, at least, 2 years.
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10/17/2009 - goofy Yno wrote: 91 Points
nice wine, clean and crisp with a touch of depth.
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10/11/2009 - eyeguy wrote: 93 Points
Drank with Val - delicious as always!
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9/29/2009 - eyeguy wrote: 94 Points
Drank at Break Fast - excellent as usual!
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9/28/2009 - BrandrB wrote: 91 Points
Masters of Wine Champagne Tasting (San Francisco, CA): Moderate yellow color. Relatively large bubbles with a persistent fizz. Yeasty apple nose. Delicate palate with lovely apple, spice, oak, and lemon flavors. Light-to-medium bodied. Medium-long finish. There’s definitely elegance here, but it’s hesitant. My one complaint with young Dom is that it’s too light and simple when young. The 2000 vintage is slightly fuller than I recall other recent Dom vintages, but overall it’s still too light for my taste. Far more time aging is needed. In my mind, at this price any Champagne should not only have great aging potential but should also be far more drinkable while still relatively young. Nonetheless, a truly excellent wine and perhaps the best young Dom I can recall.
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9/26/2009 - Faryan wrote: 91 Points
Nice tight bubbles with yeasty sourdough bread notes. Toasty Brioche notes emerged with more time, but the wine never really displayed the depth or complexity one associates with this great house. Was served a touch warm but held strong throughout the dinner. Hold onto these for a few more years before revisiting *(*)
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9/26/2009 - kris.h wrote: 91 Points
33rd Birthday: Light yellow. Buttery note on the finish. Nose of citrus, almond, pear, and honey. Light toasty note. Medium body with very soft bubbles. Moderate acidity. Medium length finish. As the Champagne warmed up and breathed in the glass it gained a smoky flinty note and got more complex.
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9/14/2009 - gsa wrote: 86 Points
Lots of hype - does not match the price.
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8/13/2009 - DAN BAILEY wrote:
Naturally, very young colour. Very fresh with nice, bright acidity. A little toast and brioche with quite a precise mousse. However, quite jagged and awkward at this stage and became increasingly so with more air in the glass.
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8/1/2009 - gripNsip wrote: 88 Points
Served blind and at cellar temp shortly after being opened: A nose of apples, yeast and buttery oak. Over-ripe green and yellow apples as well. On the palate the apples are spiced showing some nutmeg which carries into some lime juice on the finish. Tart finish that leaves behind a texture and flavor like you were sucking on a cotton shirt. Nice body, nice light bubbles but overall un-complex and boring compared to the competition and feels fairly standard. If anything I thought this wine was the ringer of the night. Placed last place for me in a 8-bottle blind Champagne tasting.
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8/1/2009 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 87 Points
Blind Champagne - Dom Pérignon loses to Cava AGAIN (My House (Portland, OR)): This is the second time for me a Dom Pérignon has lost out to a Cava, and this time in a blind tasting. Certainly darker color than the previous two wines, on the nose this is showing pretty heavy oak funk, an egg, and bird crap. Pretty decent fruit on the mid-palate, but again getting quite oaky. Rancid a bit on the finish, with high acidity, and oak building. Really not too appealing and perhaps I'm over scoring this? I think nearly everyone in the tasting either scored this last, or at least bottom three. This wine was the main reason we did the tasting blind, and the reaction didn't disappoint.
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8/1/2009 - jamscreator wrote: 93 Points
Wow, what a great bottle! Initially this was chilled too much (but the girls like it that way). Once it came to proper tasting temperature, this beauty sang! Nice tight concentration of bubbles in the glass against a lemon zest color. The palate presented with citrus, bread yeast, wildflower and some soft melon undertones. The sweet citrus really stood out towards the end of this bottle as it warmed up. Simply lovely.
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7/24/2009 - Wrighty wrote: 91 Points
The end of an era (Clipper Lounge, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong): Pretty much as before. Stood out a little less this time, palate seemed to lack some of the intensity of the last bottle.
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7/20/2009 - Kevdog wrote: 92 Points
started a bit cold and closed, loved the complex richness as it warmed and opened up.
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7/18/2009 - FMG wrote:
Holiday Notes 2009 (mainly Champagne/Riesling/Burgundy); 7/16/2009-8/2/2009 (Rosa Marina, Ostuni, Italy): apple/light citrus/lightly toasted bread/pear, diluted/youngish/green/from a vintage that should have not been declared/some finesse but you should expect more/well below 90 on a Bob scale. Magnum. *(*)/Rebuy No
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7/3/2009 - Papies wrote: 93 Points
Tasted at the BBR & Moet Tasting "The Three Expressions of Dom Perignon" presented by Richard Geoffroy.
Crisp & intense with a delicate nose. Minerality. I like the term used by RG as precise because it is exactly that. Simply another top DP champagne.
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7/1/2009 - Wrighty wrote: 93 Points
Fresh, approachable, decent level of complexity and intensity. Certainly a wine with a future ahead of it but also giving a lot now.
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6/20/2009 - Paul S wrote: 92 Points
CT London Event (Hide Bar, Bermondsey, London): I thought this was showing really well. Very clearly DP styled. A little tight on the nose at first, showing its youth maybe, but opened up to show very expressively, with lovely chard tones of sweet apples and melons, a touch of yellow flowers, a little musk and some bread. Palate was quite a bit sweeter than the Cuvee Claude Moet that preceded it, almost bursting with fruit - I got green apples and cherries. Lovely integration though, with a nice focus and a little minerally backbone. Nice long finish too, with more sweet fruit, again the green apples and cherries, before it tailed off to a tightly wound mineral and yeast finish. Could have done with a touch more complexity and structure, but it was very nicely balanced and delineated.
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6/20/2009 - JJL wrote: 91 Points
Same as last note
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6/20/2009 - MasLaPlana wrote: 94 Points
Colour: Golden with hints of green
Bouquet: Toast, fruity
Palate: Very lively and small bubbles, loads of them. The palate is very balanced and elegant. You can find cream, lemon and other citruses and butter from the dry taste. Very fresh and tasty indeed. Long and rich finish.
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6/19/2009 - wboka wrote: 95 Points
Yeasty, toasted smell. Flavor of roasted almonds. Bubbles with fine and plentiful. A delightful champagne.
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6/15/2009 - pmk wrote: 95 Points
Might be the best champagne I have ever tasted. Overall a very long finish with a creamy undertone, toasty citrus, understated fruit undertones. well balanced with long lasting small effervescence.
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6/8/2009 - tgkswine wrote: 93 Points
light, citrusy and fresh. a delightful bottle
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6/1/2009 - JJL wrote: 91 Points
Drank at a Sherry-Lehmann/Dom Perignon wine dinner at Fishtail - This was the starter wine and good place for it was much lighter then the '95 and '93 Oeno's. Some toast and citrus and on the nose, lemons, sour apple, minerals on the palate. This is a ligher, refreshing champagne that is best served on a hot day. The texture was no where near as good as the Oeno's, but still enjoyable.
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5/25/2009 - Vinsant wrote: 92 Points
Had alongside a Krug GC and a 98 Veuve LGD. The lightest of the three but very enjoyable for the citrus, vanilla, unripe tart green apple, and yeast components. Light on the palate but had a medium plus finish. Went well and actually got much better with the chevre and apple compote.
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5/23/2009 - psmith wrote:
Very young, high toned, lighter citrus fruits and wax. Clean, fresh palate, with nice precision but without typical Dom body or depth. Good wine.
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5/15/2009 - Miceri wrote: 95 Points
Lovely nose; round tasty bread-like chewy well-balanced. Got it all.
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5/9/2009 - Ryan D wrote:
Fruitier and less astringent than the other champagnes tried this evening. Very fine indeed.
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5/7/2009 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
2009 LVMH Tasting at Elway's Cherry Creek (Denver, CO): Very lively nose of minerals, chalk, stone fruits, some ginger and citrus elements, too. Really tight on the palate which is to be expected, but this does not have anywhere near the structure of say the '96. I was hoping for a bit more of the lees effect on the nose. The assemblage was a bit off, I thought. Drink thru 2018+.
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5/2/2009 - ews3 wrote: 92 Points
Philadelphia Wine Festival (Marriott, Philadelphia PA): Typical Dom flavor profile, with already impressive yeast and biscuit notes. crisp acidity. nice effort, and towards the middle of the vintages of Dom I've had young.
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5/2/2009 - jrobs7777 wrote:
The Eighth Annual Philadelphia Wine Festival (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown): Subtle. Oatmeal, nutty with some floral notes on the nose. Very restrained on the palate. I liked the Cristal better than this.
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4/30/2009 - goofy Yno wrote: 91 Points
toasty citrus. nice clean crisp mouth
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4/30/2009 - jivey wrote: 90 Points
Offline Backstreet - Really like the style very clean and fresh with more mineral than bisquit/yeast.
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4/30/2009 - jeff nowak wrote: 90 Points
dave's bordeaux blowout (backstreet wine salon): i guess they'll just declare every year now, huh? not a bad wine, but very light, and not a lot of complexity. certainly fresh...and routine.
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4/30/2009 - Alex G. wrote:
Good balance, round, ripe. Doesn't have the length of '96 but quite pleasant.
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4/30/2009 - ScottS wrote: 90 Points
Backstreet Bordeaux Tasting (Backstreet Wine Salon - PHX, AZ): light yellow in color, medium bodied with citrus & lime notes, very clean and refreshing. not a complex wine but a nice palate cleanser for the wines too come...
50+5+13+16+6=90
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4/30/2009 - mattiasjansson wrote: 90 Points
Backstreet - Bordeaux (Backstreet Wine Salon, Phoenix, AZ): Young, crisp, fresh, light
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4/26/2009 - mmh wrote: 90 Points
Still way too young in my opinion.
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3/13/2009 - gorm wrote: 93 Points
Light yellow. Fine persistent mousse. Delicious nose of nuts, breadcrumps, caramel and lemon. In the mouth this is very forthcoming and while it is nowhere near the 1996 and lacks some structure it certainly is drinking very nicely and a good deal more interesting than the 1999.
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2/27/2009 - dmalcolm wrote: 93 Points
Delicious stuff. Served it initially too cold. When we allowed it to warm up a bit, it got softer and very full-flavored.
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1/31/2009 - sdr wrote: 88 Points
Very nice but very soft champagne. Butter yellow color, full mousse of small but not tiny bubbles. Almost nothing on the nose even with extended aeration, until it finally yielded a scent of fresh mountain air. Pleasant, delicate and elegant and would be decent enough for a blancs de blancs NV or vintage grande marque - but not for DP.
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1/17/2009 - loverboy wrote: 92 Points
Bithday Party at Prayote's House: no note was taken
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1/5/2009 - B Paul wrote: 93 Points
I do not have a lot of experience with Champagne but this is very good.
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12/31/2008 - Meembo wrote: 86 Points
NOSE: passion fruit; PALATE: toast and green apple
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12/29/2008 - nzinkgraf wrote:
Champagne Tasting (Waterford Wines Milwaukee): 50% Pinot Noir, 50% Chardonnay, disgorged spring of 2008, dosage 7g/l
would i say exclusively non-offensive? touch of salonishness to the nose.
ben refers to a hazelnutiness to other vintages. 2000 is a really light vintage in comparision.
moet - 30 million cases
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12/29/2008 - Ben Christiansen wrote:
A lighter DP that some say would never have been made if it weren't for the vintage. I say less of the burnt rubber stink that normally pervades DP making it such an overpriced horse piss wank fest. Although I admit that I am having a strange attraction to this bottle right now.
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12/14/2008 - ikkaariainen wrote: 95 Points
Oh my god how good this is - boys and girls, this indeed is the real deal, the best champagne we've ever had. The bottle was enjoyed this am as part of a birthday breakfast for a good friend while up in Bryson City NC for a Christmas weekend get-away with our dinner club. Pale straw colored, tiny lively bubbles, unbelievable aeromatics - nose initially very effervescent with tones of mature pear and vanilla coming through after initial effervescence blew off. Crisp, minerally and yet soft and very well balanced. Flavors included a very pleasant underlying nuttiness and almost a mocha structure with primary flavors of green apple, peach and vanilla. First DP we've had, I now understand the fuss and the reputation. Highly recommend this, however way too expensive to be any kind of a good QPR - in life, however, some things are simply worth the money.
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12/13/2008 - carnyc wrote: 92 Points
Very dry; very elegant; really enjoyed this.
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12/4/2008 - amateurwino wrote: 93 Points
Had a taste - this was great. Balanced acidity, not puckeringly dry. A rich but controlled sweetness and nuttiness on the palate. A little bit of earthiness on the nose did not show on the palate. Really nice.
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11/28/2008 - Happybob wrote: 94 Points
Best champagne I've ever had... now I'll say that I'm not much of a champagne fan.... but this was very complex had a very long finish and was fairly dry/brut. A nice experience!
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10/30/2008 - Coffeecat wrote: 89 Points
Pale straw color with beautiful pinpoint bubbles. Light mineral and citrus aromas - shy but well balanced., In the mouth, the citrus impression blossoms to yellow fruit with a mineral underpinning. A bit fat and unfocused at the moment (though the wine was disgorged April, 2007). A classic Dom Perignon vintage where the DP style coexists with the style of the vintage. Long, mineral laced finished with a slightly sweet impression.
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9/22/2008 - JohannesNilsson wrote: 91 Points
An excellent wine as always. It did not impress me as much as the 98 which I would have given a couple of more points. Nice fruit but could've been better. Less acidity and more elegance in the 98. Next up is 99.
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5/31/2008 - ewineguy wrote: 89 Points
At the 2008 Post hotel Wine Summit in Lake Lousie Alberta Canada, We were fortunate to have Pascal Pecriaux who has been with Dom Perignon for thirty years. He walked us through three vintaged DPs, one DP Rose, and three of their Enotheque. It was a tough way to start a Saturday morning at 9:00, but I was up for the challenge. The 2000 Dom was the first of three and I have to admit my first vintaged Dom. This pale greenish yellow effervescent offering tickeled my nose with hints of citrus and apricot. On the tongue it was at first mediciny and acidic. As I and the wine woke up and listened to the heavy accented Pecriaux, this glass of Champagne began to charm me.
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4/10/2008 - aajder wrote: 91 Points
Nice color. The nose is a bit tight, showing aromas of brioche, minerals, white flowers, pear and citrus. This is medium bodied on the palate with excellent concentration and lovely balance. The fairly long finish features a strong mineral element.
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2/23/2008 - noppakit s. wrote: 100 Points
...Opened 5 hours....
...Very beautiful floral scent...very elegance, soft, smooth and full of texture...
...Much better and more ready than 1999, more seductive than 1996 too...
...Aftertaste is a dept...deep down and full-filled...
...One of the Great Dom Perignon Ever Made....Indeed...
...Seriously in complexity...
Drink it now - 2020....99-100/100...
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1/8/2008 - KS wrote: 96 Points
Not high acidity, creamy. Yeast and toasted. Long finish with pleasant bitter. Lovely.
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