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Dom Perignon 2013 Champagne《Terroir Collection - ZTF1158》
🌟 A Best known Champagne of celebrity and royal family
🌟 Aka "King of Champagne"
🌟 One of Robert Parker's greatest wine
🌟 Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) signature wine
🌟 Using grapes only from Grand Cru and one prestige Premier Cru
🏅 James Suckling 97
🏅 Wine Advocate 95: charming and elegant vintage
🏅 Vinous 94: it sure is delicious right now
In 1668, Dom Pierre Pérignon, a Benedictine monk, was appointed procurator at the Abbey of Hautvillers.
At a time when everything was guided by empirical methods, Dom Pierre Pérignon developed revolutionary techniques for viticulture and winemaking based on precise rules.
Father Pérignon modernized the abbey, restored its vineyard, and set about to make "the best wine in the world".
The "wine of Father Pérignon" became one of the most sought-after wines in France. It was served at Versailles and enjoyed by none other than Louis XIV.
Profoundly inspired, his vision revolutionized winemaking with standards that remain at the heart of all champagne wines today.
The legacy of Dom Pierre Pérignon continues to nourish Dom Pérignon's creative vision.
The Abbey of Hautvillers, where it all began.
According to legend, around the year 650, a dove led Saint Nivard, who was walking in the hills, to the spot. After it finally came to rest on a beech tree, Saint Nivard, guided by the bird's mysterious flight in which he recognized God's divine will, decided to found the Abbey of Hautvillers there.
From 1668, Dom Pierre Pérignon brings the abbey to light by imagining a remarkable wine.
The Abbey of Hautvillers is located on one of the most beautiful sites in Champagne: overlooking the valley, it is surrounded by an amphitheater of vineyard-covered hills.
The serene, austere beauty of the Abbey and the spiritual legacy of the place continues to inspire the creative vision of Dom Pérignon today.
All creative processes have their constraints. Dom Pérignon's constraint is the Vintage: Dom Pérignon can only be produced from the harvest of a single year.
Dom Pérignon's ambition is to bear witness to each year, whatever the challenges may be.
Dom Pierre Pérignon dares to put itself on the line, to take risks, to go as far as accepting that it will not declare the vintage.
Dom Pérignon's creative legacy is this reinvention of its work with each vintage.
Dom Pérignon Vintage is the culmination of the elaboration and creative processes. It embodies the vision.
Dom Pérignon Vintage expresses itself fully in its three dimensions:
The year: the character of the seasons
The Plénitudes: evolution by successive windows of expression on the way of the long maturation on lees.
The colour: White or Rosé.
These three dimensions are inseparable, and no combination is quite like any other. Each has its own space and time. As such, Dom Pérignon can only be the sum total of all past Vintages, and those yet to come.
The assemblage is the foundation of the Dom Pérignon style. It is guided by timeless principles that
have always taken precedence over winemaking techniques and their evolution.
Dom Pérignon can only be made from a blend of grape varieties and terroirs: our goal has always
been to create an enhanced whole with ever-more tension, rhythm, completeness and complexity.
Dom Pérignon is striving for an ideal.
The assemblage of Dom Pérignon is a perfect balance of black and white grapes.
The paradox of opposite and complementary elements of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir create vibration and tension.
Dom Pérignon is designed to be confronted with time. Both the White and – remarkably – the Rosé
are widely recognized for their impressive maturation potential.
A triumph of non-oxidation and the mystery of maturation on the lees (of the yeast, which makes it effervescent), the wine goes through slow, subtle metamorphoses. The style of Dom Pérignon is perfected. This slow maturation is the price that has to be paid to make Dom Pérignon stand out as one of the most complex of all wines.
It takes no fewer than eight years in the cellar before Dom Pérignon expresses its first plenitude.
Vincent Chaperon, set off to explore the Champagne region, joining Moët & Chandon in 1999. Inspired by these vineyards in more northern climes, he gradually developed a strong attachment to the region, putting down his own roots in a new terroir. He decided to stay and deepen his knowledge of the vineyards and local winemaking techniques, forging a personal aesthetic of champagne.
In 2005 Vincent Chaperon joined Dom Pérignon. His meeting with Richard Geoffroy proved decisive, the beginning of a thirteen-year apprenticeship during which the two engaged in an ongoing dialogue with one and other, and with nature, nurturing a mutual understanding anchored in confidence.
The passing of the baton took place on January 1, 2019 when Vincent Chaperon became Chef de Cave of Dom Pérignon.
🏅 James Suckling 97 points:
Perfumed with apple, green mangoes, perfume and honeysuckle. Medium-bodied with a creamy and integrated texture and a subtle finish. Bitters. Botanicals. Intense. Drink or hold.
🏅 Wine Advocate 95 points:
Disgorged in October 2022, the 2013 Dom Pérignon is a charming and elegant vintage for this cuvée. It reveals complex aromas of buttery pastry, spices, citrus oil, almonds, honey and, with aeration, a touch of smoke. The palate is medium to full-bodied, perfectly balanced, with a chiseled and tightly wound profile. The long, cool growing season has brought freshness and a delicate earthy note to the finish.
🏅 Vinous 94 points:
The 2013 Dom Perignon is quite delicate and understated. It reminds me of the 2004, but with a bit more mid-palate richness and a bit less energy. Apricot, tangerine peel, white flowers, jasmine, mint and light honeyed notes all meld together. There's lovely vinous intensity as well as a feeling of openness that make the 2013 a delight to taste today. The 2013 doesn't look to be an epic DP, but it sure is delicious right now.
$1225/bottle (without box)
$1580/bottle (with box)
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