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The heatwave Dom P

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In our Member's forum, Purple pager James Cornish reported here that he was pretty sure he spotted a bottle of Dom Pérignon 2003 in a club in Brixton, south London, last week even though it is not officially released yet. I was intrigued as I had already tasted it with winemaker Richard Geoffroy last August but had been told that it would not be released until early 2012.

While listening to a radio play about Philip Marlowe, fired by his investigative spirit, I took a look at wine-searcher.com to see whether this search facility had any record of this wine...