Super crisp aroma of stone fruit, tangerine oil, freshly toasted bread, spices, pear, honey, ripe melons, dried flowers and almonds. Complex and fiercely elegant with a nice acidity and a long, salty aftertaste.
The classic prestige cuvée from Moet & Chandon and truly a vintage champagne that rivals the very best.
98 POINTS
James Suckling
“SO SLEEK AND SOPHISTICATED”
A driven and serious DP with aromas of chalk, biscuits, apricot stones and lemons. Some spice and dried flowers, too. So sleek and sophisticated. Elegant. Yet, it’s long and powerful, with a sharp minerality. Tight and precise.
98 POINTS
Essi Avellan
At first, the nose comes across soft and toasty, less on the gunpowder but more on the toasted bread side. A little shy perhaps, but the bouquet is impeccably pure and deliciously fruity once it reveals more of itself after a short while in the glass. There is ripe yellow plum fruit but also a brisk menthol breeze as well as some sweeter, even tropical aromas. All nuances are perfectly integrated and elegantly subtle for the time being, echoing a reservedness speaking of longevity. On the soft cushiony palate, the linearity and vivacity are first to be noted, but soon after one gets charmed by the creamy-caressing texture. The dosage is perfectly balanced at 5g/l. Much racier and perhaps a little more austere than most recent Dom Pérignon vintages, however, this coolly fruity, tight and focused wines has what true longevity takes. It has evolved slowly until now and will be one to defy time.
96 POINTS
Wine Spectator
“HARMONIOUS”
Vivid acidity and a chalky underpinning make a crystalline frame for finely detailed notes of ripe melon, mandarin orange, toasted brioche and candied ginger in this harmonious Champagne, which is expressive and expansive on the palate, but with a sense of finesse and restraint. Long and creamy on the mineral-laced finish. Drink now through 2037.
96 POINTS
Inside Burgundy
Reviewed by Jasper Morris
95 POINTS
Robert Parker
“LOVELY”
Disgorged in October last year, the 2013 Dom Pérignon is a lovely wine, defined by the long, cool growing season. Offering up aromas of crisp stone fruit, tangerine oil, buttered toast, pear, almonds and clear honey, it’s medium to full-bodied, ample and seamless, with bright acids and a pillowy, enveloping profile, concluding with a long, saline finish. Vincent Chaperon recalls that shatter at fruit set moderate yields and that a drying east wind in the weeks before harvest helped to maintain the good sanitation necessary to wait to pick at full maturity.
About Moët Hennessy
Moët & Chandon is perhaps the world’s best-known producer of champagne, and has been so for over 270 years. It has been over a quarter of a millennium that the golden bubbles have pampered taste buds around the world. The name itself exudes quality, success and elegance that few others manage. It was Jean-Remy Moët, founder Claude Moët’s grandson, who seriously introduced the world to champagne at the end of the 18th century. The leaders and celebrities of the time such as the Marquise de Pompadour, the infamous Talleyrand and even Emperor Napoleon in his own high person fell for the house’s champagne. It is of course difficult to find bigger names to recommend your product than Napoleon, and since then Moët & Chandon has also been almost synonymous with quality.
