Dom Perignon Vintage Champagne, France, 2017

Grapes: A blend of 62% Chardonnay and 38% Pinot Noir, Vineyards: 18 Grand Cru and Hautvillers (Premier Cru), 7 years' lees ageing, disgorged March 2024, 5g/L dosage

Producer Tasting Note:

Appearance The wine displays a yellow hue with subtle green highlights, suggesting vibrancy and motion. The effervescence stands out through fine, lively, silky bubbles.

Nose The bouquet opens with a striking sensation of petrichor, combining warmth and freshness, along with notes of heady jasmine.

Palate On the palate, the champagne charms with its generous breadth and elegant finesse. The creamy, exotic texture reveals great richness. A striking duality emerges between bitterness and acidity, softness and tension, opulence and sharpness. Complex touches of candied zest, with vegetal and fruity nuances, come through. The mineral, sparkling finish lingers with notes of citrus fruit and toast.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"The 2017 Dom Pérignon is so impressive. A sort of mini-2002, the 2017 is a Champagne of textural richness and resonance above all else. Its creamy, voluptuous contours are so inviting. Production for the 2017 is tiny, about a three-month supply, so this wine will come and go pretty quickly. That represents a fairly dramatic shift in philosophy at Dom Pérignon. In the past, a wine like the 2017 would not have been commercially viable because of its small volume. Today, Chef de Caves Vincent Chaperon prefers to bottle Dom Pérignon in every vintage, if possible, as a document of the year, even if that means some releases will be very small. The 2017 is a wild, exotic Dom Pérignon. I loved it."

97/100 points, Antonio Galloni, VINOUS, April 2025

"Of the two releases—the 2017 and the 2018—the 2017 Dom Pérignon is the deeper and more structurally endowed wine, unfurling from the glass with a complex bouquet of orange peel, dried apricot and burnt buttered toast, mingling with nuances of dried flowers, toasted hazelnut and cacao bean, all strongly singed with the house’s signature smoky reduction. On the palate, it is full-bodied and concentrated, with a rich core of fruit. Its darker, open-knit profile is animated by a pillowy mousse, vibrant acidity and attractively bitter, structuring phenolics that assert themselves on a long, resonant finish."  Drink 2026-2041

95+/100 points, Kristaps Karklins, WINE ADVOCATE, December 2025

Food Match: Pairs well with fine seafood such as caviar, king crab and langoustine. Serve chilled at 8 to 10°C.