Welcome to 2015. Dom Pérignon’s new release is sparkling

Welcome to 2015. Dom Pérignon’s new release is sparkling
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Matt Martel
Wedded bliss, new baby, new job … pop a bottle of bubbly. Champagne has a special place in Western culture because it is pivotal to many of our celebration rituals. Also, it tastes good.  At the launch of Dom Pérignon’s 2015 vintage, one of the guests told me he’d bought a bottle after leaving university. He kept it for many years, from home to home. After he and his wife paid off their student loans, they celebrated by drinking that special bottle of 1998 bubbles. It was 15 years later. Dean O’Rei...

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