Five consumer wine fairs ...

The continuing saga of disappointing Dom Pérignon 1998 continues. (See A blind tasting of de luxe champagnes.)

 

Last weekend I dropped in at Le Grand Tasting 2006, a big consumer wine event organised beneath the Louvre in Paris by Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve last Saturday. Dom Pérignon 1998 was being poured at one of the stands so I relished the chance to try it again. No improvement, I’m afraid, and certainly none of the lovely autolytic aromatic development or firm, dense, vibrant fruit that one expects of a Dom P in its prime.

 

I asked the guy pouring...