2008 Champagne Dom Pérignon, Brut
- White
- Dry
- Full Bodied
Ready - youthful
- Jane Anson MW
- 100/100
- Jasper Morris MW
- 98/100
- James Suckling
- 98/100
- Charles Curtis MW
- 96/100
- William Kelley
- 96+/100
- William Kelley
- 96/100
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 18.5/20
- Jancis Robinson MW
- 19/20
- Richard Juhlin
- 95-98
- Antonio Galloni
- 98+
- Antonio Galloni
- 98/100
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Description
The 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is impossibly youthful. Pinot Noir, notably from Hautvillers (lieu-dit Chants de Linottes) and Aÿ (Vauzelles), bring vibrant red berry and pomegranate fruit overlaid with hints of smoke and spice from the 12 years the wine spent on the lees. The wine makes a powerful impact on the palate, with its grand, wonderful mousse and lively fresh acidity balancing out the wine-like vinous texture and depth of flavour. The ’08 DP Rosé has impressive power yet never loses sight of its elegance and delicacy; it should start to open in a few years and will continue to improve for another 50 years.
Drink 2030 - 2075
Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (January 2023)
Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Maturity Ready - youthful
Body Full Bodied
Producer Dom Pérignon
Critics reviews
Jane Anson MW 100/100
Easily the best Champagne I had all year, first tasted at a château lunch. I couldn't stop thinking about it, and eventually bought a bottle for my husband's 50th. Just so much power and precision, while still having the delicacy, easy glamour and the most moreish delivery of fresh acidities and fleshy citrus. At it opens, toasted brioche, liqourice root and oyster shall curl out of the glass. Richard Geoffroy cellar master.Drink 2021 to 2034jane_anson_mw, janeanson_com (December 2021)
Drink 2021 - 2034
Jasper Morris MW 98/100
A wine hyped by so many (me included) and tasted more than a dozen times over the last two years. Richard Geoffroy (ex-chef-de-cave) has performed a masterstroke, delivering that seemingly impossible combination of production volume and quality. Using his experience of the similar 1996 vintage, Geoffroy patiently waited before picking (the entire harvest took almost a month!) to ensure the wines had better balance and phenolic ripeness. One of the best young Dom Perignons I have tasted, a perfect blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (neither grape dominating), the “struck-match”, reductive character doesn’t dominate as much as some vintage.Sublime, cool fruited on the palate, compact with hidden density and a creamy finish that goes on and on. This will be a Dom Perignon for your children, but if you’re a selfish parent like I am, there will likely be none left to inherit!Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy.com (May 2020)
Drink 2021 - 2034
James Suckling 98/100
Deep and generous, yet driven, with delicious salted butter and salted caramel notes underneath the initial lemon and chalk. Really expands on the palate in all directions. Lemon cream and shortcrust. Creamy yet underpinned by a sharp backbone of acidity throughout. Drink or holdjames_suckling, jamessuckling_com (July 2022)
Drink 2021 - 2034
Charles Curtis MW 96/100
The 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is impossibly youthful. Pinot Noir, notably from Hautvillers (lieu-dit Chants de Linottes) and Aÿ (Vauzelles), bring vibrant red berry and pomegranate fruit overlaid with hints of smoke and spice from the 12 years the wine spent on the lees. The wine makes a powerful impact on the palate, with its grand, wonderful mousse and lively fresh acidity balancing out the wine-like vinous texture and depth of flavour. The ’08 DP Rosé has impressive power yet never loses sight of its elegance and delicacy; it should start to open in a few years and will continue to improve for another 50 years.Drink 2030 - 2075Charles Curtis MW, Decanter.com (January 2023)
Drink 2021 - 2034
William Kelley 96+/100
The finest release of this iconic cuve since the 1996 vintage, the 2008 Dom Prignon 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 cuve, 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.William Kelley - 31/01/2019
Drink 2021 - 2034
William Kelley 96/100
Unquestionably the finest Dom Pérignon of the decade, the 2008 Dom Pérignon is drinking brilliantly today, wafting from the glass with notes of citrus oil, ripe orchard fruit, peach, buttered toast, pastry cream, iodine and smoky reduction. Full-bodied, rich and fleshy, it's vinous and layered, with a deep core of sweet fruit, racy acids and a long, saline finish. The 2008 is ageing very gracefully.Drink 2020 - 2040William Kelley, Wine Advocate (August 2022)
Drink 2021 - 2034
Jancis Robinson MW 18.5/20
Brisk, tiny mousse. Notably rich nose - very Dom P! There's a hint of something marine on the nose (Michael Broadbent's oyster shells?) and then extremely tight and lacy - it somehow reminded me of a sponge because of springy texture. Masses of energy here, as well as the usual flirtatiousness. It will continue to open out, I'm sure. I tasted it very cool and then went back to it at almost room temperature a couple of hours later and it stood up extremely well. The official Geoffroy description of this vintage is 'athletic' and 'vertical'. 'All 2008s are bright in terms of fruit; we want ours to shine white light. We have deliberately warmed it up a bit, working on the muscle to better integrate the acidity. jancis_robinson_mw, MW - JancisRobinson.com
Drink 2021 - 2034
Jancis Robinson MW 19/20
Tasted blind. Very fresh and lively and creamy, lovely undertow. Long and tense. Really refreshing.Drink 2019 - 2030jancis_robinson_mw MW, JancisRobinson.com (April 2019)
Drink 2021 - 2034
Richard Juhlin 95-98
So fine and focused, unbelievably long, with great precision, purity and intensity, yet barely perceptible weight.”(…)” I have no hesitation in claiming that 2008 is the greatest Dom Pérignon vintage ever produced. Tom Stevenson Incredibly stylish from the start. Just right at Richard Geoffroy's retirement, he is releasing his best wine. What a grand finale and what a great farewell. Richard Juhlin
Drink 2021 - 2034
Antonio Galloni 98+
The 2008 Dom Pérignon is fabulous, but quite remarkably, it was even more open when I tasted it a year ago. Bright, focused and crystalline in its precision, the 2008 is going to need a number of years before it is at its best. Lemon peel, white flowers, mint and white pepper give the 2008 its chiseled, bright profile. Several recent bottles have all been magnificent. What I admire most about the 2008 is the way it shows all the focus, translucence and energy that is such a signature of the year, and yet it is also remarkably deep and vertical. In other words, the 2008 is a Champagne that plays in three dimensions. antonio_galloni, Vinous.com
Drink 2021 - 2034
Antonio Galloni 98/100
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 considering 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. Drink 2028 - 2058antonio_galloni, Vinous.com.com (August 2021)
Drink 2021 - 2034
About this wine
Dom Perignon
Dom Pérignon was the 17th century Benedictine monk who has gone down in history as the person who "invented" Champagne. His name was originally registered by Eugène Mercier. He sold the brand name to Moët & Chandon, which used it as the name for its prestige cuvée, which was first released in 1937. A rigorous selection process in both the vineyard and winery ensures that only the best grapes go into Dom Pérignon champagne. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are used in roughly equal proportions without one variety dominating the other. In its youth, Dom Pérignon shows incredibly smooth, creamy fruit with perfect balance and weight. As it ages, it takes on wonderfully toasty aromas and a finesse equalled by very few of the other Grandes Marques. Since 2014 Dom Pérignon has no longer been using the term oenothèque for its late-release Champagnes, but the word Plenitude. This style represents Dom Pérignon champagne that is left in contact with its lees and does not evolve in a linear fashion, but ages in a series of stages, producing “windows of opportunity, or plenitudes” when the Champagne can be disgorged and released to bring consumers a different expression of the same vintage. There are three plenitudes in the life of a given vintage: the first plenitude spans between seven to eight years after the vintage, which is when Dom Pérignon Vintage is released, while the second one arrives between 12 and 15 years – which was previously the first oenothèque release, but from now will be branded as P2. The third window comes after around 30 years, when the Champagne has spent more than 20 years on its lees, which will now be termed as P3.
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