Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Vintage:2002 -- Josh Raynolds

-- Josh Raynolds

Refined and complex

The lilting and lacy medium weight flavors possess a refined mouth feel on the mineral-driven flavors that are almost delicate while terminating in a restrained and lingering finish

the 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee da Capo is sheer perfection in a glass

Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Vintage:2002 -- Josh RaynoldsThe 2008 Dom Prignon continues to show very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of Anjou pear, fresh peach, citrus oil, fresh pastry, smoke and iodine. On the palate, it's full bodied, lively and incisive, with an elegantly textural attack and a creamy core of fruit that's underpinned by a bright but nicely integrated spine of acidity. The finish is long, saline and well defined. As I wrote earlier this year, this is the finest Dom Prignon since 1996,