New Release. Price £340.00 Introduction: For each vintage and from its inception, a limited number of bottles are set aside in the cellars, predestined for longer maturation. With this extra time, the inner activity in the bottle increases. The yeast transfers its energy to the wine… a mysterious transfer of life. Dom Pérignon is patiently elevated to a new summit of expression. We call this elevation Plénitude 2, the second life of Dom Pérignon. Plénitude 2 is the second life of Dom Pérignon, patiently brought to a new elevation and set on a path to eternity. After close to 15 years of slow transformation in the cellars, Dom Pérignon expands its energy and rises to an apex of essential, radiant vitality, in its state of Plénitude. Elevated to new heights, it unfurls across every dimensions – wider, deeper, longer, more intense – and gifted further with an extended longevity. Vintage 2003: 2003 is a year that will remain forever the year that changed the history of Champagne. A scorching summer imposed the earliest harvest since 1822, leading Dom Pérignon to interpret this unique year with an approach inspired by intuition and forward-looking choices. Dom Pérignon Vintage 2003 Plénitude 2 offers a rereading of history and a second life of the Vintage 2003, revealing an insolent freshness. The enveloping flow is magnified, an unabashed embrace. Tasting Notes: Out of the floral softness of lime tree emerges the grey, toasted, ashy minerality so typical of Dom Pérignon. A taste of dried fruit – apricot – appears, then the candied fruitiness of raspberry and fig. Unexpectedly, the freshness of lemon verbena, white pepper and rosemary rises for an instant, before plunging into the darkness of spices and liquorice root. This is a physical wine. It calls to you and draws you in, more tactile and vibrant than aromatic. Like a wave, it is built on rhythm and breaks: first it unfolds, then envelops – generous and structured – before withdrawing into a deep, dark verticality that slowly stretches towards a bitter, sapid iodine sensation. Background Information: From 1668, for 47 years in the Abbey of Hautvillers Dom Pierre Pérignon, breaking all the rules and constraints, pushed the art of creation to a level of perfection never reached before in Champagne. Three centuries later, Dom Pérignon pursues this quest for perfection with its commitment to only create vintages and choose the best grapes from any of the 17 Grands Crus, including the legendary Premier Cru, Hautvillers. Dom Pérignon’s commitment to vintage is absolute. Every vintage is made only with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes. The wine expresses itself distinctly in three different maturation time periods called “Plénitudes”. The first Plénitude (8 to 9 years of creation) reveals the harmony. The second Plénitude (15 to 20 years of creation, Dom Pérignon P2) is the Plénitude of energy. Plénitude 2 is the second life of Dom Pérignon, patiently brought to a new elevation and set on a path to eternity. After over 15 years of slow transformation in the cellars, Dom Pérignon expands its energy and rises to an apex of essential, radiant vitality, in its state of Plénitude. Elevated to new heights, it unfurls across every dimensions – wider, deeper, longer, more intense – and gifted further with an extended longevity. Each vintage is the result of a perfect balance between the signature of Dom Pérignon and the singularity of the year. Being able to revisit the 2003 vintage and intimately discover its plénitude is truly a gift. Even more than when the Champagne was first released in 2010, this is a chance to share the creative venture that has always nourished Dom Pérignon’s quest. Dom Pérignon was one of very few houses to interpret 2003.  And now Dom Pérignon Vintage 2003 Plénitude 2 offers a chance for a new experience of this vintage, a rereading of history. Dom Pérignon Vintage 2003 P2 has received the following scores: Jancis Robinson MW : 18/20 Richard Juhlin : 95-96/100 James Suckling : 98/100 Essi Avellan MW : 96-97/100