Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon P2 Vintage:1999 Eighty percent of the wine

Eighty percent of the wine spent a year in new oak barrels

and while they never quite have the voluptuous richness of a Dow

(from old vines of an indeterminate age)

with honeyed impingement both aromatically and on the palate reinforcing the sense of relative opacity and rounded richness that the other Graachers in this year s collection displayed

Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon P2 Vintage:1999 Eighty percent of the wineThe 2000 Dom Prignon P2 opens in the glass with aromas of waxy citrus oil, warm bread, dried fruits, fresh peach and iodine. On the palate, it's medium to full bodied, satiny and textural, with a sweet core of mature fruit, ripe acids and a sapid, elegantly toasty finish. As I wrote earlier this year, the 2000 vintage delivered a precocious Dom Prignon, and this recently disgorged rendition has really benefited from the additional time sur lattes,