Ranked #6 of 21 2002 Chardonnay Pinot Noir from Champagne
97/100
5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Quite toasty in its maturity and utterly delicious. The finesse that typifies this marque and vintage remains. It's almost as if the wine has wings: it soars and sings. Superb
Tasted: 12/06/2021
Drink: 2021 to 2021
96 Points Robert Parker
The 2002 Dom Perignon is at first intensely floral, with perfumed jasmine that dominates the bouquet. With time in the glass the wine gains richness as the flavors turn decidedly riper and almost tropical. Apricots, passion fruit and peaches emerge from this flashy, opulent Dom Perignon. The wine’s volume makes it approachable today, but readers in search of more complexity will want to cellar this for at least a few years to allow for some of the baby fat to drop off. Geoffroy describes the vintage as very ripe and adds that some of the Chardonnay showed the ill-effects of the hot growing season in the somewhat burned, dehydrated fruit that came in that year. This bottle was disgorged in July, 2009. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2032.
Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) by Antonio Galloni. January, 2010
98 Points Tyson Stelzer
2002 represents a particularly ripe vintage for Dom Pérignon, yet recent performances have demonstrated its remarkably slow evolution. A lightning bolt of acidity strikes a dynamic core of fine, frothing chalk mineral structure, bursting with lemon sherbet freshness. Signature struck-flint reduction is subtle, and the gentle warmth of maturity is beginning to glow in notes of ginger, brioche, toast and butterscotch, with building intensity and creaminess. A benchmark Dom, magnificent now, with decades stretching marvellously before it.
Source: Tyson Stelzer, The Champagne Guide 2016-2017.
The 2002 Dom Perignon is at first intensely floral, with perfumed jasmine that dominates the bouquet. With time in the glass the wine gains richness as the flavors turn decidedly riper and almost tropical. Apricots, passion fruit and peaches emerge from this flashy, opulent Dom Perignon. The wine’s volume makes it approachable today, but readers in search of more complexity will want to cellar this for at least a few years to allow for some of the baby fat to drop off. Geoffroy describes the vintage as very ripe and adds that some of the Chardonnay showed the ill-effects of the hot growing season in the somewhat burned, dehydrated fruit that came in that year. This bottle was disgorged in July, 2009. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2032. Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) December, 2010 by Antonio Galloni