Description
Dom Perignon Vintage 2017 In Gift Box (75cl)
Tasting Notes:
The wine has a duality to its character - bitterness and acidity, sucrosity and tension, opulence and edge, and roundness and straightness. This duality transports you to an oniric world of fragrances and flavors capable of reconciling contraries. An acute smell of petrichor, together warm and fresh. The scent of a heady flower, of jasmine. The complex touch of candied zest, altogether vegetal and fruity, soft and grainy.
Dom Pérignon Vintage 2017 feels like a substance in zero-gravity, like the fluidity of a moving mass. This movement is pulsating; it is boiling, then whirling. The wine leaves an impression of soft gushing. Of these evening perfumes, intense and mysterious, which trail carries us away. Of these fluid and rhythmic dances which movement we are drawn into. Seduction.
Vincent Chaperon, Chef de Cave
The Year:
2017 has known three sequences, three opposite directions which are the foundations of this vintage's character in tension. In the vineyard the year began in a mild way.
At the beginning of spring, in March, quietness was broken by 12 frost days, which led to a reduction of the yield potential. The rest of spring and the beginning of summer were hot and dry, which consolidated a precocious maturation, and was propitious to concentration for the remaining grapes. The rainfalls at the end of August changed the situation.
Botytris and sour rot prospered as the grapes were running a risk of degradation. Similarly to 2005 and 2010, the cropping strategy and the ability to sort out the grapes were essential to save the best fruit. The harvested chardonnays were the ripest since 2000. When uninfected, the pinots noirs showed a very beautiful balance between maturity and freshness.
The Story:
From 1668 and for 47 years in The Abbey Of Hautvillers, breaking all the rules and constraints, Dom Pierre Pérignon pushed the art of creation to a level of perfection never reached before in Champagne.
Three centuries later, Dom Pérignon pursues this quest for perfection with its commitment to only create vintages and choose the best grapes from any of the 17 Grands Crus, including the legendary Premier Cru, Hautvillers.
Dom Pérignon's commitment to vintage is absolute. Every vintage is made only with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes.
The wine expresses itself distinctly in three different maturation time periods called "Plénitudes".
- The first Plénitude (8 to 9 years of creation) reveals the harmony.
- The second Plénitude (15 to 20 years of creation, Dom Pérignon P2) is the Second life of Dom Pérignon
Each vintage is the result of a perfect balance between the signature of Dom Pérignon and the singularity of the year.
Winemaking:
"THIS PROCESS IS NOT PASSIVE, IT IS ALIVE."
Dom Pérignon is only created from the 17 Grand Crus in Champagne and the Premier Cru of Hautvillers. A recognizable signature: seamlessness, paradoxical balance between freshness & maturity and an extremely silky texture.
Harvest: grapes are picked on the threshold of ripeness, when they are on the edge between freshness and richness, to preserve the wine's elegance and respect Dom Pérignon's signature.
Fermentation: our goal is to pay the utmost respect to the vineyard's fruit and its initial freshness.
Blending: only Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes: Dom Pérignon plays with contrasts and complementary elements to combine maturity and freshness, lightness and density, power and finesse.
Maturation: in the cellars, the wine goes through slow and subtle metamorphosis, that caries a part of mystery.
Time here is active. It is maturation, not ageing. This time on the lees allows the maturation process of the wine.
