Dom Périgon is a champagne produced my Moet et Chandon (supposedly from grapes around the Abbaye de Hautvilliers although this is almost certainly impossible seen as Moet produced hundreds of thousands of cases of Dom Pé).
It is named after Dom Pierre Pérignon, the supposed inventor of champagne who after tasting the sparkling wine reportedly said "I'm drinking stars". We, of course, now know that Dom Pérignon was not the first person to produce champagne and it was, despite the outrage of the French, first produced by an Englishman! Despite the fact this isn't by any stretch of the imagine a rare champagne (hundreds of thousands of cases are produced annually) good marketing strageries with the help of Claudia Schiffer and Karl Lagerfeld demand a premium of over £100 a bottle.
Robe: Light, strawish with green reflets
Nose: Ripe exotic fruit, mango, with a slight earthiness
Palate: White flowers, white peach, very slight autolysis, quite acidic and quite short length.
La Revue du Vin de France summed this champagne up by saying that it isn't a regular Dom Pé, where you'd expected big, rich, toasty, yeasty flavours and if you were to take off the three 000's from the vintage, it would lose half its charm. 16/20 RVF
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