Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Vintage:2012 licorice and ample black fruits

licorice and ample black fruits

fresh pastry

It was vinified in various types of vessels

There is outstanding concentration and muscle to the punchy medium weight plus flavors that conclude in a beautifully long and notably firm finish of focused power and seriously good depth

It's a different style from the regular Aalto from this same year

Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Vintage:2012 licorice and ample black fruitsThe 2008 Dom Prignon continues to show very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of Anjou pear, fresh peach, citrus oil, fresh pastry, smoke and iodine. On the palate, it's full bodied, lively and incisive, with an elegantly textural attack and a creamy core of fruit that's underpinned by a bright but nicely integrated spine of acidity. The finish is long, saline and well defined. As I wrote earlier this year, this is the finest Dom Prignon since 1996,