Attendants: G, A, B, and D
The honorable VSC turns five-years-old
Menu:
1) Pozole (adapted from a combination of this and this recipe)
2) Chips and salsa
3) Chocolate pudding
4) Dom Perignon 1996 vintage*
| *I have had a lot of great vintages of Dom Perignon, but I do not remember any as impressive as the 1996. Even richer than the brilliant 1990, the 1996 is still tightly wound, but reveals tremendous aromatic intensity, offering hints of bread dough, Wheat Thins, tropical fruits, and roasted hazelnuts. Medium to full-bodied, with crisp acidity buttressing the wines wealth of fruit and intensity, it comes across as extraordinarly zesty, well-delineated, and incredibly long on the palate. Moet-Chandon deserves considerable accolades for this prodigious example of Dom Perignon. Anticipated maturity: now-2020+ | |
| Score: 98 | Robert Parker, eRobertParker.com (Feb 2004), February 2004 |
