- Colour Champagne_Sparkling
- Producer Dom Perignon
- Region Champagne
- Grape Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
- Drinking 2024 - 2044
- Case size 3x75cl
- Available Now
2008 - Dom Pérignon Rosé - 3x75cl
- Colour Champagne Sparkling
- Producer Dom Perignon
- Region Champagne
- Grape Pinot Noir / Chardonnay
- Drinking 2024 - 2044
- Case size 3x75cl
- Available Now
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Goedhuis, February 22
The Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 2008 has an other-worldly nose of sweet red roses, rhubarb and red berry fruits layered with biscuit and marzipan complexity. This is only 10% Pinot Noir yet it really does “pinote” with its ethereal Burgundian nose of dried flowers and sweet red fruit. So integrated and complete, the structure and richness is balanced by a salivating freshness and pleasing phenolic edge. Vincent Chaperon comments on the “super vibration” of this 2008, such is its momentum, which pushes through to a powerful finish and offers up astounding length. A seriously good Champagne.
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Goedhuis, February 22
The Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 2008 has an other-worldly nose of sweet red roses, rhubarb and red berry fruits layered with biscuit and marzipan complexity. This is only 10% Pinot Noir yet it really does “pinote” with its ethereal Burgundian nose of dried flowers and sweet red fruit. So integrated and complete, the structure and richness is balanced by a salivating freshness and pleasing phenolic edge. Vincent Chaperon comments on the “super vibration” of this 2008, such is its momentum, which pushes through to a powerful finish and offers up astounding length. A seriously good Champagne.
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Antonio Galloni, May 21, Score: 97
The 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé is magnificent. Rich and deep in the glass, the 2008 offers up an exotic mélange of aromas and flavors. Sweet red cherry, mint, orange peel and rose petal all grace this beguiling beauty. Bright acids and a little less still red Pinot (21%) than in most recent editions yields a Rosé that is delicate and light on its feet, with less of the vinous intensity that marked vintages such as 2006. There is a classic feeling of austerity in the 2008 that is mesmerizing. Drinking window: 2026 - 2048.
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James Suckling, April 21, Score: 99
This shows incredible depth of fruit with strawberry, cherry and phenolics. Full-bodied and layered with an incredible, three-dimensional element to the wine. This is so transparent and dynamic with dark fruit, yet it remains vivid and bright. Refined and precise, it goes on and on. Really savory, fresh and incredibly pinot-noir-like. What a wine. 13 years of maturation in the bottle. So drinkable now, but it will age for many years ahead.
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Jancis Robinson, May 21, Score: 17
Pale to mid salmon pink (much deeper than a typical Provence rosé). There's some note that's mineral or iodine or oyster shell on the nose of this. Then we segue into something floral – rose petals? even candied rose petals. Drink 2022 – 2027.
Region
Champagne
Champagne, the world's greatest sparkling wine, needs little introduction - with imitations produced in virtually every country capable of growing grapes, including such unlikely candidates as India and China. The Champagne region, to the north of Paris, has the most northerly vineyards in France, with vines grown on slopes with a southerly exposure to maximise sunlight. The soil is chalky, providing an excellent balance of drainage and water retention. The key to the wine is in the cellar - the bubbles result from a second fermentation in the bottle and the rich toasty flavours in great Champagne come from extended bottle ageing on the yeasty lees. Until the eighteenth century, the wines produced in the Champagne area were light acidic white wines, with no hint of sparkle. However glass and closure technology developed at that time and it was not long before Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautvilliers, started experimenting with blends and produced the first recognisable champagne. In a world accustomed to still wines, the advent of champagne was almost a flop. It was saved when it became fashionable at the French court as a result of Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour commenting "Champagne is the only wine that lets a woman remain beautiful after she has drunk it." And the rest is history, with famous (or infamous) champagne lovers including Casanova, Dumas, Wagner, Winston Churchill, James Bond and Coco Chanel.