Dom Perignon 2013 Brut Vintage Champagne, Vintage Giftbox

The classic prestige cuvee from the house of Moet & Chandon. The 2008 vintage was selected #5 on the Wine Spectator Top 100 with a 96 point score. This 2013 got the same outstanding score of 98 points along with many other rave reviews.

James Suckling gave this wine 98 points saying, “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.”

Wine Spectator scored this wine 96 points noting, “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. ”

Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate gave this wine 95 points saying, “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.”