Moet & Chandon - Dom Perignon Andy Warhol Edition 2002 (750ml)
Moet & Chandon Description
The Dom Perignon Andy Warhol limited edition Champagne collection was the first time the iconic Champagne brand changed the color of its distinct label. The Design Laboratory at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and Moet and Chandon Dom Perignon collaborated to create six different artsy Dom Perignon labels for the 2000 and 2002 vintages. This is the 2002 Dom Perignon Andy Warhol Edition Champagne.
The task of the Design Laboratory and the Andy Warhol Foundation was to strengthen the cultural and artistic aspects of the Champagne brand. With this special edition collection, Dom Perignon wanted to pay homage to artist Andy Warhol and his flamboyant personality.
This Champagne collection is of great significance to the brand since Andy Warhol was also an avid Dom Perignon fan during his life. The six iconic Dom Perignon bottles, featuring the 2000 and 2002 vintages, were released in October 2010. Later, they included matching Champagne flutes with the same colorful shields imprinted on the glass.
Vinous: 98 Points
I remember the first time I tasted the 2002 Dom Perignon with then-Chef de Caves Richard Geoffroy at Hautvillers. It was the upcoming release at the time. As was his custom, Geoffroy served the 2002 in a flight that included a number of previous releases. The bouquet was immediately stunning for its audacity. I had never tasted anything like it. 2002 was year marked by extreme ripeness in the Chardonnays, adn that opulence has always been a big part of the wine's profile. Today, what strikes me most about the 2002 is its timelessness. That youthful opulence remains, yet the 2002 is still vibrant, almost shocking in its freshness. Apricot, ripe peach, tangerine oil, butter, and dried flowers all build towards a captivating crescendo of aromas and flavors that saturates the finish. Readers can look forward to another two decades of exceptional drinking.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
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.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
A rich and smoky Champagne in a graceful package, with a beautiful, fine-grained texture to it and layers of flavor—biscuit, candied lemon peel, coffee liqueur, chamomile, pine, crystallized honey and wood smoke. This is the haute couture of the Champagne world—all about elegance, texture and attention to detail.
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