Magnificent bouquet for this Dom Pérignon 2013

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 moderated 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. - Robert Parker

• 95 points from Robert Parker, August 2022
  
• 18.5 points Jancis Robinson, June 2022

Food Pairing: Cured pork and clams, crusted scallops or crème brulée.

Cellaring: 2023 - 2050

STORY BEHIND THIS WINE

Dom Pérignon only produce vintage Champagne. Each vintage shows the character of the year and the style of the house. This was the very first prestige cuvée Champagne produced in 1936, it is owned by Moët and Chandon.