Dom Perignon 2013 Champagne: best price for this ‘driven and serious’ vintage awarded 98/100 points by James Suckling: ‘elegant and luxurious’: single bottle in presentation case
£169.00
Best price for Dom Perignon 2013, multiple award-winner:
98/100 James Suckling
98/100 Essi Avellan MW
96/100 Wine Spectator
18.5/20 Jancis Robinson MW
95+/100 William Kelly, robertparker.com
James Suckling awarded this Dom Perignon 2013 vintage Champagne 98/100 points, describing it as ‘a driven and serious DP, ‘so sleek and sophisticated’. We are delighted to see this, the finest of Champagnes, in the CountryClubuk Cellar, and particularly at this, the best price. Here is what the leading critics write:Jancis Robinson MW, 18.5/20: ‘Intense, lightly spicy nose and then on the palate very smooth-textured, gentle and lifted, with light bitterness on the finish – grapefruit peel? Some lightly vegetal notes and very long. Seamless texture and already very agreeable. Drink 2022-2032.’
James Suckling, 98/100: ‘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. Reminds me of bottles from the 1980s, such as 1988. It really takes off.’
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Tasting Notes:
Elegant and luxurious
Aroma:
Green notes—eucalyptus, mint and vetiver—combine with yellow-orange notes of mirabelle plums, apricots and orange blossom, along with pepper, cardamom and liquorice and ending with saline and toasty notes.
Taste:
The mouthfeel is elegant, refined, silky and luxuriously simple, while the finish is dominated by a deep salinity.
The 2013 winemaking year proved a welcome reconnection with the glorious past of late harvest vintages. After a cold, wet winter, spring was gray, quite cool and extremely rainy. The vines began budding about two weeks later than the average for the decade, a delay that lasted all the way until the harvest. The hot and dry summer was the sunniest on record in the Champagne region, proving particularly beneficial for the quality of the grapes. Rain in early September quickly ceded to easterly winds that kept the grapes healthy until they were picked. The harvest at Dom Perignon begins on September 28. Tasting this vintage revealed a promising balance between acidic and full-bodied.
General notes:
A rigorous selection process in both the vineyard and winery ensures that only the best grapes go into Dom Perignon Champagne. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are used in roughly equal proportions without one variety dominating the other. In its youth, Dom Perignon shows incredibly smooth, creamy fruit with perfect balance and weight. As it ages, it takes on wonderfully toasty aromas and a finesse equalled by very few of the other Grandes Marques.
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