Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Lenny Kravitz other_regions_italy The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Ark

The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Ark Vineyard is medium to deep garnet in color and delivers a beautiful nose of kirsch

(from 11 different parcels scattered about Puligny with an overall average vine age of approximately 38 years)

The 2013 Amarone della Valpolicella Monte Lodoletta is my favorite wine in the retrospective

smooth-flowing and gently wooded on the palate

Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon Lenny Kravitz other_regions_italy The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon ArkThe 2008 Dom Prignon continues to show very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of Anjou pear, fresh peach, citrus oil, fresh pastry, smoke and iodine. On the palate, it's full bodied, lively and incisive, with an elegantly textural attack and a creamy core of fruit that's underpinned by a bright but nicely integrated spine of acidity. The finish is long, saline and well defined. As I wrote earlier this year, this is the finest Dom Prignon since 1996,