2004 Dom Pérignon Rosé

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I tasted a wide range of Champagnes with Chef de Caves Vincent Chaperon on two recent visits to Dom Pérignon. The biggest surprise was how well the 1995 P2 and P2 Rosé are aging. Ninety ninety-five has always lived in the shadow of 1996, but it is a vintage that very much deserves to be appreciated for its own considerable merits.

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Once again, I was super-impressed with the 2005 Dom Pérignon, which showed beautifully in a mini-vertical of the last four releases. In 2005, a very challenging vintage, Moët & Chandon did not bottle a single drop of vintage Champagne. The small amount of fruit that was deemed of high quality went into Dom Pérignon, which has turned out to be stellar. Readers may also want to check out this comprehensive retrospective of Dom Pérignon Rosé, which is likely the most extensive and historical tasting of the Rosé that has even been staged.

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This wine was tasted as part of a complete vertical in March 2015.

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I tasted wide range of wines this year with Chef de Caves Richard Geoffroy. While some of the older Champagnes I tasted are sublime, the truth is they will be nearly impossible to come by and priced in the stratosphere. Those wines should be great, and they are often much more than that. Instead, though, it is the 2005 that impressed me most given how difficult that vintage was in Champagne. Moët made no vintage wines at all under their label that year, just a bit of Dom Pérignon and Dom Pérignon Rosé. From what I have tasted so far, the 2005s here will be among the wines of the vintage. Best of all, they will provide great short and medium-term drinking while the 2002s and 2004s are left in the cellar. Readers should note that with the 1998 vintage, the Oenothèque series has been re-branded as P2 and P3 which refer to the second and third plenitudes, or windows of maturity, for those wines. If anything, though, the P2 wines are being released too early. The 1996 is only now beginning to deliver real pleasure. It will be interesting to see how long the soon-to-be-released 1998 takes to reach the same place. In my view, Dom Pérignon remains one of the best relative values in high-end, collectible wine. My suggestion is to buy the wines immediately upon release (to mitigate issues that might arise with provenance) and forget about them for at least a decade.

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