Moët & Chandon Brut Champagne Cuvée Dom Pérignon 2015

96 points Tyson Stelzer (The Champagne Guide): "(tasted in 2024 in Australia; 51% pinot noir, 49% chardonnay; bottled March 2016, aged 9 years on lees (compared with 7 in the past); disgorged early 2023; 4.5g/L dosage). Achieving ripeness was the secret to the warm and dry 2015 season and Richard Geoffroy and Vincent Chaperon and their team have achieved a splendid result here, a dramatic credit to their selection through meticulous tasting at the harvest. In the modern era of Dom Pérignon, it’s the cooler and more classic seasons that I love most, but my first encounter with 2015 comes as a refreshing surprise. This represents a dramatic turning point in Dom Pérignon and its expression and balance in an age of warm, sunny, dry vintages, and makes a profound statement of confidence for the future. There’s a compelling shift in focus here, away from the coffee bean character, dry phenolic grip and reductive tension of preceding warm vintages like 2009, 2005 and 2003, instead presenting a much more juicy, fruity and ultimately delicious demeanour. The crunch of apple and pear contrast the tension of grapefruit and the flesh of white peach, even the exoticism of golden kiwi and loquat. On the eve of its release at nine years of age, lees maturity has built generous layers of creamy texture and complexity of crème pâtissière, roast hazelnuts and fruit mince spice. Boasting a bright straw hue, it presents a coherence unprecedented in young, warm season Dom Pérignons, delivering a silky palate texture that seamlessly unites fine phenolic grip with saline chalk minerality and perfectly harmonised dosage. It projects the best of the character of this challenging vintage, while resolutely upholding the distinguished personality that is Dom Pérignon. This make for a Dom to drink right away and over the short- to medium-term, while 2012 and 2013 relax in the cellar. (Edition VII; 2024)"

96 points Antonio Galloni (Vinous): "The 2015 Dom Pérignon is terrific. Bright and poised, the 2015 shows terrific energy. Citrus peel, white flowers, mint, white pepper and slate all race across the palate. There's gorgeous tension and backbone here, with bright saline notes that extend the mid-palate and finish. This is a fine showing in a vintage that has proven to be tricky. I am intrigued to see how the 2015 develops in the coming years. Drink: 2025-2045. (Mar 2024)"

96 points Wine Spectator: "[$295 list] There's a well-spiced, zesty edge to the flavors of glazed apple, mandarin orange peel, pink grapefruit pith and crème de cassis as they ride the finely detailed mousse of this fresh, focused Champagne. This vivid display is enriched by notes of canelé pastry, chopped almond, pastry cream, smoke and vanilla, all coming to the forefront through the midpalate and chiming on the lasting finish. Drink now through 2035. (9/25/24)"

95 points Yohan Castaing (Wine Advocate): "Disgorged in January 2023, the 2015 Dom Pérignon shows a singular, ethereal profile with aromas of white pepper, iodine, ripe orchard fruits, toast, smoke, herbs and spices. Medium to full-bodied, layered, and structured, it’s enveloping and round with a delicate phenolic mid-palate that underlines chalky dry extracts, concluding with a sapid, penetrating finish with gastronomic bitterness. This iteration of Dom Pérignon, though replete with the customary charm and vinous generosity that typify the label, distinguishes itself by its structural delicate austerity and a notably phenolic profile, giving rise to a remarkably linear and well-defined style that diverges markedly from the more familiar expressions of Dom Pérignon. This is a blend of 51% Pinot Noir and 49% Chardonnay with a dosage of 4.5 grams per liter; it will age wonderfully and can be enjoyed now or over the next 20 years. Drink: 2024-2054. (5/30/24)"

94 points Yohan Castaing (Decanter): "2015 is unusually giving and luscious at this early stage, full of apricot pastry, bittersweet orange citrus and bitter almond, brightened by some pithy herbal characters that signal the year’s singular growing season yet also leaning deliciously into toasted bread, honey-nut and a little umami savour from lees ageing. It plays a deep, fruit-saturated and slightly grippy angle on Dom Pérignon’s often svelte style, less reductive than usual and much more immediate than the previous release (2013). This is a vintage perfectly placed for relatively youthful drinking, although Dom Pérignon’s record will mean this is likely to have a rewarding decade ahead. Drinking Window: 2024-2038. (6/14/24)"