DOM PERIGNON 'Millesime' Brut Vintage 2012 MAGNUM

Description

The 2012 Dom Pérignon is a truly exceptional Champagne, earning top accolades across the board, including 98 points from Decanter and 97 points from both James Suckling and Vinous. This vintage stands out with its bright straw color, vibrant bubbles, and a captivating bouquet that mingles aromas of pastry, citrus, herbs, and a hint of smoke. On the palate, it is full-bodied yet vibrant, showcasing generous stone fruit flavors, along with notes of white pepper, pistachio, and almond. Critics highlight its youthful energy and remarkable depth, with a mouthwatering acidity that leads to an unending finish. The Wine Advocate rated it 96 points, praising its complexity and rich character. With a drinking window from 2022 to 2042, this Dom Pérignon promises to evolve beautifully over time, embodying the essence of luxury and craftsmanship.

*****

ANDREAS LARSON 96 points
"Bright straw colour with a green hue and vivid fine bubbles. Fine toast with roasted nuts, nougat, lemongrass, lime, ripe peach, yellow plum and fresh brioche. The palate is distinct and mouthwatering with an invigorating acidity, mild creaminess, warm and ripe with generous stone fruit flavours, a slight nuttiness, pistachio and almond with an intense, fresh and persistent finish. Still youthful but a tremendous potential."

JAMES SUCKLING 97 Points
5 Jul, 2023 – Extremely intense and energetic with precision and focus. It's medium-bodied, racy and focused in both texture and structure. White pepper and bitter lemons. Drink or hold.

DECANTER 98 points
Drinking Window: 2021 - 2050 - What a magnificent bouquet for this Dom Pérignon 2012! Pastry, a hint of smoke and classic brioche notes provide a compelling counterpart to eager yet elegant aromas of citrus (lime, tangerine and kumquat) joined by those of fresh fruit, herbs, liquorice and menthol. There is even a refreshing note of ivy. The palate is tense, vibrant and very fresh despite its impressive density, which meets its match with an unending finish. This 2012 embodies the very essence of Dom Pérignon with such a concentrated degree of intensity, along with a capacity for ageing that it is surely destined for a second life in a P2 edition. - Yohan Castaing (at Bordeaux, 01 May 2021)

JANCIS ROBINSON 18.5++ points
The 2012 vintage has a great reputation but it surmounted all sorts of challenges: frost in winter and spring, torrential rains, hailstorms and cold spells while the vines were flowering, plus intense heatwaves during the summer – but at least these last left the grapes healthy. Harvest stretched from 10 to 26 September. As usual, they are tight-lipped about the exact composition of the blend.
Classic lemon-zest and tension nose that I associate with Dom Pérignon, but with extra weight and depth. And quite marked phenolics on the end which suggest this will have a remarkably long life. And, as Vincent Chaperon readily admitted, will definitely show up as a P2 star. Clean and neat and with light smokiness on the finish. Dom P always plays the reduction card. Hugely impressive persistence. Still a baby. (JR)

VINOUS 97 points
Once again, the 2012 Dom Pérignon is stellar. It's a potent, tightly-wound Champagne. That should serve it well in the future, but today, the 2012 is not terribly expressive. Time in the glass brings out striking aromatic top notes and plenty of energy to match. Low yields, down 30-40%, produced a wild, dynamic Champagne endowed with tremendous character. It's an exceptional Champagne from a year marked by frost, hail, mildew, oidium and botrytis. Pretty much everything, in other words. - Antonio Galloni

THE WINE ADVOCATE 96 points
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Drink Date: 2022 - 2042
The 2012 Dom Pérignon is developing very nicely on cork, exhibiting a complex bouquet of pear, confit citrus fruits, honeycomb, buttered toast, iodine and nuts framed by a deft touch of youthful reduction. Full-bodied, rich and muscular, with a layered core of fruit and a pillowy mousse, it's a vinous, vibrant Champagne that concludes with a saline finish. Published: Aug 31, 2022