Dom Perignon - Brut Champagne 2008 (750ml)
Price: $298.00
| Producer | Dom Perignon |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne |
| Varietal | Champagne Blend |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Sku | 1801118 |
| Size | 750ml |
Vinous: 98 Points
The 2008 Dom Pérignon is a huge powerful Champagne and also clearly one of the wines of the vintage. This is one of the most reticent bottles I have tasted. So much so that I am thinking about holding off opening any more bottles! The 2008 has always offered a striking interplay of fruit and structure. Today the richness of the fruit is especially evident. Readers who own the 2008 should be thrilled but patience is a must. -- Antonio Galloni The 2008 Dom Pérignon is once again stunning. More than anything else I am surprised by how well the 2008 drinks given all the tension and energy it holds. Then again that is precisely what makes 2008 such a unique vintage – namely that the best wines are so chiseled and yet not at all austere. Lemon peel almond mint smoke and crushed rocks are all finely sculpted but it is the wine’s textural feel drive and persistence that elevate it into the realm of the sublime. The 2008 will be even better with time in the cellar but it is absolutely phenomenal even today in the early going. Three recent bottles have all been nothing short of magnificent. -Antoni Galloni
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
The 2008 Dom Pérignon is the first time the estate has released a wine out of order (the 2009 was released before the 2008) but the estate loved the wine so much they felt it warranted additional aging. This is a rich powerful wine that still shows incredible purity and elegance with a stacked concentrated feel on the palate. It?s rare to find such a mix of ripe pure concentrated fruit paired with this level of purity focus and precision. This is a legendary Dom that surpasses all the great vintages of Dom I have experience with including the 1990 1996 and 2002.
vJohn Gilman: 98 Points
The 2008 vintage of Dom Pérignon is an absolute classic in the making and this is destined to be one of the great recent years for this iconic cuvée. It is far more classically structured out of the blocks than the relatively generous 2009 version offering up a deep complex and very youthful bouquet of menthol green apple a touch of tangerine a very complex base of minerality and notes of dried flowers in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure full-bodied and rock solid at the core with precise mousse brisk acids ans stunning length and grip on the primary and laser-like finish. This will demand some cellaring to start to really stir and should prove to be an extremely long-lived vintage of DP. Stellar juice. 2024- 2085+.
Wine Advocate: 96+ Points
The finest release of this iconic cuvée since the 1996 vintage the 2008 Dom Pérignon wafts from the glass with an incipiently complex bouquet of Meyer lemon green apple dried white flowers and oyster shell with only subtle hints of the smoky autolytic aromas that have been such a prominent signature of recent releases. On the palate the wine is medium to full-bodied deep and complete its notable flesh and amplitude controlled by incisive acids with a youthfully exuberant but elegant mousse and a long beautifully delineated finish. Considering the sheer size of this cuvée it's a remarkable achievement and a fitting release with which to conclude Richard Geoffroy's tenure as chef de cave. Given the 2008's intensity and balance I suspect purists will be anticipating later disgorgements with lower dosage and more time on the lees with particular enthusiasm. Tasted three times with consistent results.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
There's power to this graceful Champagne, with the vivid acidity swathed in a fine, creamy mousse and flavors of toasted brioche, kumquat, pastry cream, candied ginger and poached plum that dance across the palate. An underpinning of smoky mineral gains momentum on the lasting finish. Drink now through 2033.
