Dom Perignon Brut 2004bottles from original case OC6 without gift box. The 2004 Dom Prignon is one of the more reductive, autolytic vintages of this wine to have been released in the last decade, offering up a toasty bouquet of pears, green apple, iodine, peach and smoke. On the palate, it's medium to full bodied, satiny textured and fleshy, with a sweet core of fruit, a fine mousse and a vinous profile. The 2004 is drinking well today: as I wrote earlier this year,

Richebourg Grand Cru

Founded in 1988 by Anne-Françoise Gros

This wine is fermented in small oak barrels for the first 10 months

as well as complex and long

it may turn out to be as good as the 2005

powerful Champagne and also clearly one of the wines of the vintage

When LalouÕs father

taking over the house in 1971

So much so that I am thinking about holding off opening any more bottles

"Proprietor Christian Dauriac's tiny 7

with zesty aromas

The 2002 Dom Pérignon P2 is wonderfully open in its aromatics