Dom Pérignon - Cuvée Dom Pérignon 2015 [Takashi Murakami Edition]

Champagne Club by Richard Juhlin

From the dry and hot year 2015, of course, the genius Vincent Chaperon manages to escape the vintage's excess clarity and shortcomings. With the world's largest quality vineyards in the mosaic, he and his team carefully balance and carefully consider every detail. Here, it is important to create balance and harmony with a higher percentage of mineral-driven and cooler locations as a cornerstone. The natural sweetness of the grapes also required a slightly lower dosage to preserve the clarity and evidence of each instrument's contribution to the well-tuned symphonic experience created. They should also be commended for not being tempted by the possibility of making a fully mature and generously matured wine from scratch, even though nightclubs and party-hungry consumers would surely have praised the wine even more if that was the case. No, here there is a nice restraint and mouth-watering mineral saltiness in the background throughout the taste journey. The aromas are intense with exquisite balance between roasted coffee and chocolate notes intertwined with lime and jasmine and both yellow and green showy juicy fruits. The natural fruit is impressive in its strength and purity, but I am probably most impressed by how clear the Dom Pérignon character is and how excited I am when I think about how nicely this vintage will also develop both in private cellars and in Épernay for to one day be presented in its most beautiful form under the P2 and P3 label. At the moment, I just have to recommend that you serve the champagne with a classic blini with sour cream and a spoonful of ultra black caviar. The saltiness of the caviar highlights the richness of detail in the champagne in an outstanding way.

James Suckling

A super-complex Champagne with chewy tension. Aromas of coffee beans, lemon peel, burnt sugar, chalky minerality, barley candy and tarte tatin. Fine pinprick bubbles with flavors of lemon leaves, aspirin and Mirabelle plums, plus a touch of grapefruit bitterness keeping the tension. Zesty yet integrated chewy acidity and a medium body with a toasted finish. Drink of hold.

Jeb Dunnuck

The 2015 Dom Perignon pours a bright straw/yellow color and is expressive and layered on the nose with a tropical profile in its notes of cantaloupe, peach, fresh pastry, smokey wet stones, and orange blossoms. Medium to full-bodied, it offers a rounded and ripe but very well-detailed feel, with a soft, chalky texture. This was a very successful vintage for Dom Perignon, producing wines that retain a great deal of clarity and detail in this warm vintage. Drink over the coming 20 years.

Decanter Magazine

2015 is unusually giving and luscious at this early stage, full of apricot pastry, bittersweet orange citrus and bitter almond, brightened by some pithy herbal characters that signal the year’s singular growing season yet also leaning deliciously into toasted bread, honey-nut and a little umami savour from lees ageing. It plays a deep, fruit-saturated and slightly grippy angle on Dom Pérignon’s often svelte style, less reductive than usual and much more immediate than the previous release (2013). This is a vintage perfectly placed for relatively youthful drinking, although Dom Pérignon’s record will mean this is likely to have a rewarding decade ahead.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Disgorged in January 2023, the 2015 Dom Pérignon shows a singular, ethereal profile with aromas of white pepper, iodine, ripe orchard fruits, toast, smoke, herbs and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered, and structured, it’s enveloping and round with a delicate phenolic mid-palate that underlines chalky dry extracts, concluding with a sapid, penetrating finish with gastronomic bitterness. This iteration of Dom Pérignon, though replete with the customary charm and vinous generosity that typify the label, distinguishes itself by its structural delicate austerity and a notably phenolic profile, giving rise to a remarkably linear and well-defined style that diverges markedly from the more familiar expressions of Dom Pérignon. This is a blend of 51% Pinot Noir and 49% Chardonnay with a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter; it will age wonderfully and can be enjoyed now or over the next 20 years.

Wine Spectator

Gismondi on Wine

Dom Pérignon is named after the 17th century Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Pérignon (1638-1715), who, by legend, is said to have invented sparkling wine while cellarmaster at the Abbey of Hautvillers. This is fake news, as is the notion he was blind. However, he did make the first clear still red wine, the first clear sparkling from red grapes (Blanc de Noir), put thought into the blend and picking times, propelled the use of cork closures and Verre Anglais (strong, coal-fired English glass), and invented the shallow Champagne basket press. So, we do have a lot to thank this monk for. This is the prestige cuvée of Moët et Chandon since 1937. My bottle of 2015 Dom Perignon features the exciting energy and artwork of Jean Michel Basquiat and blends 51% Pinot Noir and 49% Chardonnay, disgorged in January 2023 with 4.5 g/L. Surprisingly just medium bodied, this envelops the palate with generous brioche, subtle toast, white and red cherry, crystalline lemon peel and green apple interwoven with fine lees. All are structured on a framework of subtly smoked stones and based on deep, deep chalk. The finish continues with lingering lemon peel and finely humming chalk. There's a lovely tensile character to this vintage, which is unexpected yet still feels very DP.