Dom Perignon P3 Plenitude 1990 (Gift Box)

Description

By Wine Advocate in 2020 (WA96)

While the original disgorgement of this wine is beginning to get a little long in the tooth in regular formats from all but the coolest cellar, the 1990 Dom Pérignon P3 is showing superbly, bursting from the glass with a thrilling bouquet of ripe yellow fruits, dried white flowers, honeycomb, brioche and and spruce smoke. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, satiny textured and deep at the core, with terrific concentration, ripe acids and structuring dry extract, concluding with a long, beautifully defined finish. The 1990 is clearly a vintage that has been favored by the combination of additional time on the lees and lower dosage, and in its P3 incarnation, it can go head to head with the 1985, even if the latter vintage is aging more gracefully from the original release. Given that the 1990 P3 is an expressive, dramatic wine, there seems little reason to wait, though it ought to perform at this level for the better part of a decade.

By Wine Spectator

Plenitude offerings are the cellared, matured bottles of Dom Perignon Champagne cuvee released when the wines reach a certain level of complexity and concentration.

These special Champagnes are aged on lees for 9-40 years before release to reach maximum complexity and concentration.

They’re released in three phases:

• The first Plenitude P1 aged for 9 years on lees
• The second Plenitude P2 aged for 20 years on lees
• The third Plenitude P3 aged for 30-40 years on lees

At the third Plenitude (P3) state, the Champagne is fully concentrated, acidic, and highly complex.