Dom Perignon 2013

Pale straw yellow with a steady stream of small bubbles. Minerally-tinged white flowers, nectarine, apricot blossom and mint dominate on the nose and the mouth. Juicy, fresh and zingy. The long cool growing season has given us a lightly less rich mouthful of Dom, but one that is also piercing and precise, finishing long and focused with vibrant, harmonious acidity. Early season weather contributed to some Berry shatter that ultimately helped increase flesh and density in the finished wine. Lovely Dom Perignon that strikes me as falling somewhat in between the styles of the magnificent 2002 and the lighter but lovely 2004. Drinking window: 2025-2040. Terroir Sense - Jan 2024

Score: 95

Ian D'Agata Maturity: 2025-2040 01 January 2024

Disgorged in October last year, the 2013 Dom Pérignon is a lovely wine, defined by the long, cool growing season. Offering up aromas of crisp stone fruit, tangerine oil, buttered toast, pear, almonds and clear honey, it's medium to full-bodied, ample and seamless, with bright acids and a pillowy, enveloping profile, concluding with a long, saline finish. Vincent Chaperon recalls that shatter at fruit set moderated yields and that a drying east wind in the weeks before harvest helped to maintain the good sanitation necessary to wait to pick at full maturity.

Score: 95

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2023 - 2043 31 August 2022