Wine Advocate (95)

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Vinous (96)

A wine of real power and intensity, the 1985 Dom Pérignon Rosé is exceptionally beautiful tonight. The flavors are rich, layered and expansive. Hints of caramel and hazelnut add nuance to a core of expressive red berry fruit, but it is the wine’s textural generosity that is most impressive considering the 1985 is now thirty years old. The 1985 is not an eternal wine, but it has reached a glorious plateau of maturity. Wow!

Vinous (96)

The 1996 Dom Pérignon Rosé was a knock out. It showed terrific clarity in its perfumed, sweet fruit, roses and spices, with notable balance and superb classiness.

Vinous (96)

The 2000 Dom Pérignon Rosé is just starting to enter its first plateau of maturity. Sweet tobacco, mint, dried flowers, rose petal, game, licorice and tobacco add myriad shades of aromatic nuance. This is the first vintage in which former Chef de Caves Richard Geoffroy started bumping up the percentage of still Pinot in his quest to make a more vinous Rosé. Naturally, some of the sheer intensity the 2000 showed as a young wine has faded. More importantly, I find the 2000 in a transitional phase where it is settling into the next stage of its life. For that reason, I would prefer to cellar it for at least a few years.

Jancis Robinson (20)

Magnum. Pungent and composed with massive energy. Lovely edge of freshness. Long and nuanced. So clean and pure. Long and lovely!

James Suckling (99)

A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows rose petal and cooked peaches. Medium to full body, with ultra-fine tannins that feel like fine silk. The finish goes on for mintutes. It floats across the palate. The winemaker says the closet vintage to this is the 1990, but I think this is better.

James Suckling (99)

A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows rose petal and cooked peaches. Medium to full body, with ultra-fine tannins that feel like fine silk. The finish goes on for mintutes. It floats across the palate. The winemaker says the closet vintage to this is the 1990, but I think this is better.

Decanter (98)

The Dom Perignon Rosé 2006 is simply amazing. Notes of raspberry, spices and mint jump from the glass in a seductive combination. The texture in the mouth is of precise, crystalline, laser-like tannins in an opulent style. A very great success in a vintage that was not always easy in Champagne.

Decanter (98)

The Dom Perignon Rosé 2006 is simply amazing. Notes of raspberry, spices and mint jump from the glass in a seductive combination. The texture in the mouth is of precise, crystalline, laser-like tannins in an opulent style. A very great success in a vintage that was not always easy in Champagne.

James Suckling (99)

A mind-blowing wine. This is super subtle and intense with aromas of peaches, light strawberry and cream. Also shows rose petal and cooked peaches. Medium to full body, with ultra-fine tannins that feel like fine silk. The finish goes on for mintutes. It floats across the palate. The winemaker says the closet vintage to this is the 1990, but I think this is better.

Wine Advocate (93+)

The 2009 Dom Pérignon is already drinking well, exhibiting expressive aromas of ripe apple, peach, Meyer lemon, marzipan and dried white flowers that are framed by the classic nutty, autolytic notes that so often define this cuvée. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, rich and fleshy, with a broad attack, a brisk and refined mousse, appreciable dry extract and a notably saline finish. While this is a comparatively ample, gourmand vintage of Dom Pérignon, there's sufficient concentration and structural tension—which has become more apparent with a bit of bottle age—to suggest that this may be surprisingly long lived.

Wine Advocate (97)

Disgorged in May 2020 with two grams per liter dosage, the 2012 Extra-Brut Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru is fabulous, bursting from the glass with notes of smoky pear, white flowers, walnuts and baking spices. Derived predominantly from holdings in Avize, it's full-bodied, layered and immensely concentrated, with a tightly wound, structured core and racy acid spine that mark it out as emphatically built for the long haul. Deep and vinous, I suspect that it will surpass the 2008 rendition at maturity.

Wine Advocate (96+)

Disgorged in January 2021 with two grams per liter dosage, the 2015 Extra-Brut Premier Cru Clos de l'Abbaye has turned out brilliantly. Wafting from the glass with aromas of citrus oil, warm bread and honeycomb that are still a little reserved after its recent disgorgement, this is a full-bodied, layered and concentrated Champagne that's vinous and textural, displaying notable depth and mid-palate amplitude that's framed by lively acids and an enlivening pinpoint mousse, concluding with a long resonant finish. As I've written before, this cuvée derives from a walled 0.4-hectare plot of 60-year-old cordon-pruned vines just behind the winery in Vertus, and only the first and second "serres" of the press are used.

Wine Advocate (98)

Disgorged over a year ago with 0.8 grams per liter dosage, the 2008 Extra-Brut Grand Cru Les Lumières is a striking Champagne, unwinding in the glass with scents of pear, citrus oil, freshly baked bread, mandarin orange, almonds and buttery pastry. Full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it's layered and muscular, with an immensely concentrated core of fruit, racy acids and a long, resonant finish. As I've written before, this cuvée is a blend of first-press juice: two-thirds Chardonnay from Mesnil-sur-Oger and one-third Pinot Noir from prime holdings in Aÿ.

Wine Advocate (98)

Disgorged over a year ago with 0.8 grams per liter dosage, the 2008 Extra-Brut Grand Cru Les Lumières is a striking Champagne, unwinding in the glass with scents of pear, citrus oil, freshly baked bread, mandarin orange, almonds and buttery pastry. Full-bodied, deep and multidimensional, it's layered and muscular, with an immensely concentrated core of fruit, racy acids and a long, resonant finish. As I've written before, this cuvée is a blend of first-press juice: two-thirds Chardonnay from Mesnil-sur-Oger and one-third Pinot Noir from prime holdings in Aÿ.

Pétrus (93WA)
Latour (100WA)
Lafite Rothschild (100WA)
Ausone (100WA)
Mouton Rothschild (91WA)
Cheval Blanc (92WA)
Haut-Brion (95WA)
Margaux (93WA)
La Mission Haut-Brion (93WA)

Each case contains:

1x75cl Latour 2005 - 98+ pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Lafite Rothschild 2005 - 96 pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Mouton Rothschild 2005 - 98 pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Margaux 2005 - 98+ pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Haut-Brion 2005 - 100 pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl La Mission Haut-Brion 2005 - 100 pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Pétrus 2005 - 97+ pts | Wine Advocate

1x75cl Cheval Blanc 2005 - 100 points | Wine Advocate

1x75cl D'Yquem 2005 -97 pts | Wine Advocate

Contains 1x75cl bottle of each:

Pétrus 2015 - 100 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Lafite Rothschild 2015 - 96+ pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Mouton Rothschild 2015 - 98 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Margaux 2015 - 99 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Haut-Brion 2015 - 100 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

La Mission Haut-Brion 2015 - 98 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

d’Yquem 2015 - 100 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Ausone 2015 - 99 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Cheval Blanc 2015 - 100 pts | Lisa Perrotti-Brown (Wine Advocate)

Pétrus (98+WA)
Lafite Rothschild (97+WA)
Ausone (98WA)
Mouton Rothschild (96+WA)
Cheval Blanc (96+WA)
Haut-Brion (97WA)
Margaux (98WA)
La Mission Haut-Brion (96+WA)
d’Yquem (97-99WA)

The Duclot Collection Case 2018 contains one bottle of nine of the very top wines of 2018 from across both banks of Bordeaux, giving a marvellous cross section of what Bordeaux has to offer in this fabulous vintage. These Duclot cases have become collectors’ items that are especially popular as gifts, legacies for children etc. The year 2018 will always be special to someone, for some reason, and to mark it with nine of the best wines from a vintage like 2018 will always be desirable. And of course, the wines in this case will drink for another 40-50 years.

 

The Duclot Collection Case 2018 contains 1x75cl of each following :

 

Château Pétrus | 100 pts Wine Advocate

Château Ausone | 100 pts Wine Advocate

Château Cheval Blanc | 98+ pts Wine Advocate

Château Margaux | 100 pts Wine Advocate

Château Haut-Brion | 100 pts Wine Advocate

Château Mouton Rothschild | 99 pts Wine Advocate

Château Lafite Rothschild | 100 pts Wine Advocate

Château La Mission Haut-Brion | 99 pts Wine Advocate

Château d’Yquem | 98 pts Wine Advocate

Jancis Robinson (17)

A bit of apple peel. Very ‘natural’. Very pure and unadorned. All top Montagne de Reims villages. Extreme champagne. Very dry finish. Lots of potential.

Vinous (94)

The NV Vieilles Vignes de Vrigny (Meunier) is one of the best vintages of this cuvée I can remember tasting. Bright and finely cut, the Vieilles Vignes sizzles with tension from start to finish. Dried pear, spice, crushed rocks, mint and white pepper all race out of the glass. Meunier has rarely been so refined, so nuanced. Give this a year or two to unwind. Dosage is 2 grams per liter. Disgorged: September, 2022.