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First taste: Dom Pérignon 2015

Tom Hewson tastes and rates the latest Dom Pérignon releases, the newest cuvée from the hot, dry 2015 vintage and re-release of the 2006 in its Plénitude 2 form.

‘Everybody that’s tasted the Dom Pérignon 2015 has said to me so far, “wow, this fruit Vincent!”’ says Dom Pérignon cellar master Vincent Chaperon. ‘The generosity, the natural sucrosity…it has evolved very quickly, and for the better.’

Chaperon and I are sitting in the Abbey of Hautvillers, where Champagne’s famous monk perfected his (still) wines in the late 17th century.

Today, the wine made in his name remains the region’s most prominent prestige cuvée, made predominantly from a vineyard stretching to over 900 hectares of almost entirely grand cru land owned by Moët Henessy in the heart of Champagne. Chaperon believes it could be, ‘the largest qualitative vineyard in the world.’


Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for the new Dom Pérignon 2015



Notes and scores for Dom Pérignon’s latest releases

Wines are listed in score order.


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