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    PERFECT 10

    Feb 01, 2022 5 minutes
    By Mark Spivak

    I’ve been reviewing wine professionally since 1992 and have tasted many thousands of wines in the process. A select few are just as vivid in my memory today as the day I tried them. While it’s difficult to generalize about the qualities that make wines unforgettable, the greatest among them are all benchmarks of their type that leave you breathless. The following 10 are not just outstanding efforts in their particular vintage but also come from producers that make great wine more often than not.

    1 DOM PÉRIGNON OENOTHÈQUE ROSÉ, 1990 ($1,600)

    Back in 2010, I wrote the first post for my Global Gourmet blog (titled “Dynamic Tension and Sheer Brilliance”) about this Champagne, tasted with winemaker Vincent Chaperon. Chef de cave Richard Geoffroy began the Oenothèque series (now called Plénitude) in

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