Selecting a Wine of the Year can be agonizing.
Then, sometimes you get lucky, and a wine just clicks. I'm thankful that happened this year.
Once I got my hands on this well-priced parcel of 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé, there was no question.
Crush turned twenty this year. I wanted to select something appropriately celebratory and also something simply outstanding.
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The 2008 Dom Pérignon Rosé checked all the boxes. We have many favorites, but DP Rosé is, in our opinion, the best rosé Champagne. In the 2008 vintage, the wine is off-the-hook.
For us, the 2008 Champagne vintage is the best of the past couple of decades, and even in this context, Dom Pérignon turned out next-level wines in this vintage.
The 2008 Rosé is among the best that the vintage has to offer. Recently, it has seemed to enter its next stage of development, growing deeper and even more profound.
The combination of red fruits mixed with herbs and minerals has become jaw-droppingly expressive. Texturally, the wine has become extraordinarily silken. The wine pulls off the magical feat of being deep and kaleidoscopically complex while being virtually ethereal.
When the 2008 Rosé was first released, we were all enamored by the wine, but our allocation was very modest. Today is the first time that we've been able to offer the wine to our email list.
I'm happy to have the opportunity to present this as my Wine of the Year at pricing that's as if time had stood still from when it was released.
To order, email offers@crushwineco.com or call the store at (212) 980-9463.
Ian McFadden
Director, Fine & Rare
Crush Wine & Spirits
