"William Kelley, Robertparker.com 95+ Points
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.
Jancis Robinson MW, Jancisrobinson.com 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. June 2022"
The prestige cuvee of Moet et Chandon, Eugene Mercier registered the brand name Dom Pérignon before Moët & Chandon acquired it and used it to launch the first champagne marketed as a prestige cuvée, a 1921 vintage launched in 1928. Only released in exceptional vintages.
