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A bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne with a special edition label featuring Basquiat's artwork, accompanied by a matching designed gift box.

Dom Perignon Champagne Special Edition Jean-Michel Basquiat 2015 750ml

JS 97 | RP 95 | D 94 | Vivino 4.6

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Champagne
France
Champagne
2015
750ml
Drink or Keep
Pinot Noir Blend
Dry

The Dom Pérignon  2015 is an extraordinary vintage, combining complexity and tension. With aromas of coffee beans, lemon peel, burnt sugar, and chalky minerality, it offers flavors of lemon leaves, aspirin, Mirabelle plums, and a touch of grapefruit bitterness. Its zesty acidity and medium body lead to a toasted finish. This wine stands out for its structural delicacy and phenolic profile, providing a remarkably linear and well-defined style, unlike previous releases. 
The special edition, featuring Basquiat's iconic "In Italian" artwork, celebrates the synergy between art and winemaking, with each bottle showcasing Basquiat's signature crown.

James Suckling | JS 97
Published: Oct 10, 2024

A super-complex Champagne with chewy tension. Aromas of coffee beans, lemon peel, burnt sugar, chalky minerality, barley candy and tarte tatin. Fine pinprick bubbles with flavors of lemon leaves, aspirin and Mirabelle plums, plus a touch of grapefruit bitterness keeping the tension. Zesty yet integrated chewy acidity and a medium body with a toasted finish. Drink of hold.

The Wine Advocate | RP 95
Published: May 30, 2024
Drink: 2024-2054

Disgorged in January 2023, the 2015 Dom Pérignon shows a singular, ethereal profile with aromas of white pepper, iodine, ripe orchard fruits, toast, smoke, herbs and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered, and structured, it’s enveloping and round with a delicate phenolic mid-palate that underlines chalky dry extracts, concluding with a sapid, penetrating finish with gastronomic bitterness. This iteration of Dom Pérignon, though replete with the customary charm and vinous generosity that typify the label, distinguishes itself by its structural delicate austerity and a notably phenolic profile, giving rise to a remarkably linear and well-defined style that diverges markedly from the more familiar expressions of Dom Pérignon. This is a blend of 51% Pinot Noir and 49% Chardonnay with a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter; it will age wonderfully and can be enjoyed now or over the next 20 years.

Decanter | D 94
Published: Jun 14, 2024
Drink: 2024-2038

2015 is unusually giving and luscious at this early stage, full of apricot pastry, bittersweet orange citrus and bitter almond, brightened by some pithy herbal characters that signal the year’s singular growing season yet also leaning deliciously into toasted bread, honey-nut and a little umami savour from lees ageing. It plays a deep, fruit-saturated and slightly grippy angle on Dom Pérignon’s often svelte style, less reductive than usual and much more immediate than the previous release (2013). This is a vintage perfectly placed for relatively youthful drinking, although Dom Pérignon’s record will mean this is likely to have a rewarding decade ahead.
Sweetness: Brut
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 12.50%
Body: Medium
Grapes: 49% Chardonnay 51% Pinot Noir / Pinot Nero

Vivino | Vivino 4.6

The immediate impression is of the mildness of the pure, airy, bright bouquet. A floral, fruity pastel tone then unfolds and quickly darkens into candied fruit, ripe hay and toasted notes, along with hints of licorice.

Dom Pérignon's Brut Champagne is a revered and iconic wine that represents the pinnacle of champagne craftsmanship. Produced by the renowned champagne house Moët & Chandon, Dom Pérignon is a symbol of luxury and excellence in the world of sparkling wines.

Dom Pérignon was named in honor of the 17th-century Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon, who is often credited with important contributions to champagne production. While the historical accuracy of these claims is debated, the name pays homage to the legacy of innovation and refinement in the art of winemaking.

Dom Pérignon Brut is typically made from a blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes, which are carefully selected from the finest vineyards in the Champagne region of France. The grapes are hand-harvested to ensure the utmost quality.

The winemaking process for Dom Pérignon Brut is characterized by precision and traditional methods. After the initial fermentation, the wines are carefully blended to achieve the desired flavor profile. This cuvée is known for its meticulous attention to detail and the artistry of the cellar master in crafting a consistent and exceptional wine.

Dom Pérignon Brut Champagne is celebrated for its exquisite taste. It typically offers a pale gold or straw color with a delicate and persistent effervescence. On the nose, it reveals a complex bouquet of citrus fruits, floral notes, brioche, and subtle mineral undertones. The palate is marked by a fine balance of freshness, creaminess, and vivacity, with flavors of green apple, pear, toasted almond, and a long, lingering finish.

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Dom Pérignon celebrates the art of assembling through a special edition of Vintage 2015 in tribute to the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. A singular limited edition collection of three bottles pairing with giftboxes recomposing Basquiat's renowned "In Italian" painting.

Explore Dom Pérignon Vintage 2015, featuring refined notes of roasted cocoa, lime blossom, jasmine, and peony, subtly accented with aniseed and cardamom. This champagne harmonizes the crispness of orange and green papaya with a soft, full-bodied palate rich in peach, nectarine, and citrus flavours.

Basquiat, who died in 1988, was known for his neo-expressionist style, and now, with the co-operation of his estate, Dom Pérignon has released bottles which draw inspiration from the artist's 1983 work In Italian.

Now housed in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the work shows Basquiat's background as a graffiti artist, with scrawled slogans across the canvas.

Dom Pérignon has represented the work through a series of three coffrets, or gift boxes, which, when brought together, display In Italian in its entirety. "For the painting In Italian, the assemblage of materials and the successive pictorial interventions that hide each other until what was originally painted becomes indecipherable, opens the way to potentially infinite layers of meaning and multiple emotional configurations for the observer."

"As for Dom Pérignon," it continued, "the tension between the different characteristics of the original wines creates an extraordinarily rich alliance of meanings, without ever erasing the trace of the original matter."

As for the actual bottles, each label features Basquiat's signature three-pointed crown, in yellow, blue or green, atop the Dom Pérignon shield. According to Dom Pérignon, the shield represents the house's protection of its ideals, and Basquiat's crown signifies power.