Community Tasting Note

Cailles wrote:

Saturday, March 18, 2023 - Dom Perignon 1959-2012: Ten wines, eight DPs plus a 2002 P2 vs Moet Collection match-up. A superb tasting. All five 40+ years old DPs showed lively, complex, balanced and intellectually as well as hedonistically appealing. Best wine was the 1976 (97pts) which needed air to blow of some faulty/oxidation notes and reveal all its glorious complexity and freshness. Just a step behind (all 96pts) the hyper complex 1959, an almost young-ish 1975, and the still tight but incredibly fine and promising P2. An odd-ball 1980 (95pts), likely a special bottling with higher dosage, showed like a Piper Heidsieck Rare on steroids. The only disappointments were the very slightly corked 2003 (but showed superb substance underneath) and a badly corked 1990.

TN: Super expressive nose with loads of toffee and caramel. Highly intriguing and inviting nose with some yellow fruit underneath and a quite fresh appearance. Same on the palate with lots of burnt sugar/caramel, toffee, some faint nuttiness and some yellow fruit as well as strong layers of minerality. Still some fine mousse, good freshness and tension but clearly broader and sweeter than DP would normally be. It was said/speculated, that this must haven been a special bottling for a particular market with a clearly higher dosage. It didn’t taste like your typical DP but more like a Heidsieck Rare on steroids. Lots of fun to drink.

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