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DOM PERIGNON
Dom Pérignon Oenothèque--Vintage 1959
Disgorged 1999. In orignal wooden presentation case
Tasting note: It was around this time that the famous Dom really started to hit the top of the charts. My first taste of it was in a magnum in 1972 when I found it too dry, impressive, but not to my taste (perhaps just as well as it was beyond my means). I preferred it with more bottle age and appreciated it more in the mid-to late 1970s.
More recently, the oldest of four vintages, all disgorged in June 1998, presumably with Len Evans' forthcoming birthday events in mind. In fact, the bottles varied, one very pale with a scent of freshly peeled mushrooms and with a delciously nutty flavour and very dry finish. The other hads a deeper, more golden colour and, though fresher, seemed a bit odd. Last drunk at Loggerheads, in the Hunter Valley, helping to celebrate Len Evans' 70th birthday, Sept 2000. At best **** Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
1 bottle per lot
Dom Pérignon Oenothèque--Vintage 1959
Disgorged 1999. In orignal wooden presentation case
Tasting note: It was around this time that the famous Dom really started to hit the top of the charts. My first taste of it was in a magnum in 1972 when I found it too dry, impressive, but not to my taste (perhaps just as well as it was beyond my means). I preferred it with more bottle age and appreciated it more in the mid-to late 1970s.
More recently, the oldest of four vintages, all disgorged in June 1998, presumably with Len Evans' forthcoming birthday events in mind. In fact, the bottles varied, one very pale with a scent of freshly peeled mushrooms and with a delciously nutty flavour and very dry finish. The other hads a deeper, more golden colour and, though fresher, seemed a bit odd. Last drunk at Loggerheads, in the Hunter Valley, helping to celebrate Len Evans' 70th birthday, Sept 2000. At best **** Michael Broadbent, Vintage Wine
1 bottle per lot
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