Dom Pérignon

Dom Pérignon, 2006

Name: Dom Pérignon
Brand: Dom Pérignon
Price: 871.93 GBP

96/100

Vinous

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2006
6x75cl
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£871.93

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

2006 Dom Pérignon is beautiful. The product of a generally warm, dry year, the 2006 is full to brimming with luminous fruit and layered textures. We believe it outshines 2004 and is the best Dom Pérignon since 2002. In contrast to some of the ripest vintages the 2006 initially opens with a nose of fine citrus and smoky flint notes. There is nothing remotely opulent about it, in fact the dominant impression is one of elegance and a great precision. Taut, crystalline fruit and rock salt notes hardly prepare you for a palate that boasts superb concentration and richness of fruit, seamlessly supported by fine, bright acidity. The ripeness of the year has imbued the fruit on display with an intensity and vinosity that is as delicious as it is compelling. A very fine bead and impressive length add structure and provide a sense of lift at the finish which implies this is a Dom Pérignon with a long future ahead of it.

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Critic Reviews

96/100

Antonio Galloni,

Vinous

Powerful, dense and tightly wound, the 2006 Dom Pérignon is fabulous today. To be sure, the 2006 is a broad, virile Champagne, but I find it compelling because of its phenolic depth and overall intensity. Chef de Caves Richard Geoffroy adds that August was quite cold and wet, and that ripening only happened at the very end of the growing season. Although numbers alone can never explain a wine, I find it interesting that the 2006 has more phenolics than the 2003. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2006 is easily the most reticent Dom Pérignon in the years spanning 2002 and 2009. I am confident the 2006 will have its day, but in its youth, it is not especially charming or easy to drink.

drinking window 2026 - 2056

date of review 07/2018

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Chardonnay/Pinot Noir

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12.5%

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.