DOM PERIGNON 'Millesime' Brut Vintage 2006 Bottle

Description

The 2006 Dom Pérignon is an exceptional vintage, celebrated by critics, receiving high praise across the board. Wine Enthusiast awarded it 97 points, noting its fabulous flinty and mineral character alongside complex reductive aromas. The palate is taut and intense, offering a perfect balance of powerful lemon rind and creamy fruit notes. James Suckling also scored it 97 points, highlighting its lively vibrancy, density, and intricate flavors of pastry and sliced lemon, showcasing impressive aging potential. The Wine Advocate rated it 96 points, appreciating its aromatic richness, with notes of pineapples, peaches, and tangerines, delivering a long, elegant finish. Vinous echoed this sentiment, enjoying its phenolic depth and intensity. With such acclaim, this wine is not only a treat now but promises to evolve beautifully over the years.

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WINE ENTHUSIAST 97 points
Critic tasting note: "(2021) What a fabulous wine this DP 2006 is, from a generally dry and warm vintage. There's a fabulously flinty, seal-salt and minerals quality on the nose, the wine immediately suggesting power and great concentration. It is gently toasty, all those complex reductive notes making for endlessly fascinating aromatics. In the mouth it is taut, intense and equally concentrated, but this is not a brawny wine; instead the sinew connects clean, powerful lemon rind and creamy fruit notes that have a certain fat, but no excess. It's a wine that edges on phenolic, with some tannin giving real authority, but somehow it is charming too with its balance and fruit purity. A terrific DP." - Tom Cannavan

JAMES SUCKLING 97 points
This is very lively and vibrant with a dense and rich center palate. Lots of complexity and balance with pastry, sliced lemon and light dried mango. Full yet racy and intense. A beautiful center palate. Linear. Shows potential for aging but so good right now.

THE WINE ADVOCATE 96 points
Drink Date 2016 - 2041
The 2006 Dom Pérignon comes from a very rich vintage with an early ripeness that brought a lot of aromatic maturity. The white-golden prestige cuvée contains a bit more Chardonnay than Pinot Noir and opens with a deep and seductive, pretty accessible nose with intense yet fresh fruit aromas of pineapples, with peaches and tangerines. Lively and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, unusually aromatic and fruity DP with a long and tension-filled expression. - Stephan Reinhardt 2016.

VINOUS 96 points
Powerful, dense and tightly wound, the 2006 Dom Pérignon is fabulous today. To be sure, the 2006 is a broad, virile Champagne, but I find it compelling because of its phenolic depth and overall intensity. Chef de Caves Richard Geoffroy adds that August was quite cold and wet, and that ripening only happened at the very end of the growing season. Although numbers alone can never explain a wine, I find it interesting that the 2006 has more phenolics than the 2003. Readers will have to be patient, as the 2006 is easily the most reticent Dom Pérignon in the years spanning 2002 and 2009. I am confident the 2006 will have its day, but in its youth, it is not especially charming or easy to drink. - Antonio Galloni

JANCIS ROBINON 18.5++ points
Some evolution on the nose with real interest. Smells so much older than either the 2008 or the 2009. Flirtatious. Clean and fresh. Very zesty in flavour but with a lovely creamy texture. (JR)