2006 - Dom Perignon, Rose

The 2006 Dom Pérignon Rosé is powerful, ample and overt right out of the gate. Then again, the Dom Pérignon Champagnes have always shown all the signature radiant intensity of this warm year. Readers will find an ample, full-bodied Rosé, a Champagne that will be as its most expressive and delicious at the dinner table. In this tasting, the 2006 only suffers because of the surrounding wines, but it is exceptional in every way.

The 2006 Dom Pérignon Rosé continues to show very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of bitter orange, dried white flowers, red berries, toast and woodsmoke. On the palate, it's full-bodied, broad and muscular, with all the phenolic structure and depth that one would expect from a rosé that contains more than 20% still red wine, concluding with a sapid and chalky finish. As I wrote earlier this year, this is a vinous, gastronomic rosé that numbers among the decided successes of the 2006 vintage.