A fantastic wine tasting event by Crystal Wines. www.crystalwines.com of three of the classic champanges from Dom Perignon!
The 'regular' Dom, my first Dom ever. I've heard so much about it, read about the Gold awards that this wine has been winning around the world, and finally I've go to taste it! Nose of ripe citrous, hint of toast and oak. Yummy and delicious, balanced palette and an amazing 50seconds finish! Dom usually spend at least 6 years on lees and it's a mixture of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and one can be hard pressed to pick up a dominant grape in the finely balanced bubbly.
The Dom Perignon Rose 1998. Perfect with Sushi, Salmon Sashimi!? The wine merchant went to Akashi and 5 pax spent $3.2k on food and 8-9bottles of Blanc 2002 @ $220/btl!! Talk about indulgence!
The customised Champange flute for the Blanc 2000.
The favourite of most at the tasting, which I found it very lacking in the nose. Has yet to open at all. Enotheque is a greek word for 'wine library', and such will spend easily 9 years on the lees before a 2nd release of the wine is made. Once the wine warmed, the nose still wasn't appearing. Palette was complex with a decent finish. I'll try this with a Pinot glass and at least 1 hr of uncorked time before going near this fellow. And this cost >SGD$500/bottle!
The Wine of the Night! A sneak at the 1998 Rose...
Twin bottles of the very lovely, absolutely balanced and beautiful rose. Rose comes from the skin of perfectly ripened grapes and Dom Perignon has grapes only from the 17 Grand Crus in Champange. And since Dom Perignon is a 'vintage-only' champange, we don't get the Blanc on a yearly basis, and much less the Rose!! (though in some years, the Rose was made by not the Blanc!)
The 'must-have' family portrait, with my clear favourite on the 'top step of the podium'!!
I did buy a bottle of 2000 in the end of the evening and went for a yummy Yakitori dinner with Nick @ Robertson Quay.
