Dom Pérignon 2000

blackbarn will know if he's around.

My wine merchant (Berry Brothers and Rudd) has the very same for £850 for a case of six.  I think some of the big prices you are looking at are those whopper biblical bottles. So £150ish for a single bottle would be about right.

Nice gift Kenny.  I am sure you will love it.  I Hope you've stored it horizontally as if upright for that long, the cork may have dried and shrunk, spoiling the wine.

This may not go down well with you, but for others with a similar top quality vintage Champagne, here is what to eat with it.....

Lobster, Scallops, Crab, Lamb Sweetbreads, Pork Belly, Roast Veal or Chicken. It is also a perfect match for hot Foie Gras and most cold game - Partridge, Grouse or Woodcock.  Also great with Indian Food but you should omit the Chilli.  Hope this helps.

Do not serve it too cold - defo not straight out of the fridge - needs to be about 5 degrees warmer than that.

Odd that often, the more sophisticated/expensive the wine, the less fussy you need to be with its food partners.

Enjoy.

Mate, not for sharing, give your mates some cans of Bitter!! I like Veuve Vintage 2008 myself

tictac - the price is all about the year.  2000 was a great year for Dom.  Probably the best you can buy to drink now apart from 2002.

JC - same with anything. Some people think top price automatically equals top quality. With some things they are right.

Deptford - the 2008 vintage of Veuve Clicquot is very fine.

I am drinking Tesco own Vintage at the moment, it is actually quite good, a good drink to watch the football!!

Agreed JC - Generally with wine there is a very clear relationship between price and quality.  Although this is clouded by several factors.  The relationship is not linear as you suggest - once you get to about £15 you might need to spend £25 to get a 10/15% improvement in quality. Then to counter this is the element of fixed costs - shipping, bottle, label, cork, taxation etc etc  which has the effect of making the wine in a £10 bottle typically 3/4 times "better" than the wine in a £5 bottle. It is of course a minefield and as always the advice must be to buy what you like and can afford. 

I do think though that it is worth experimenting with a really good bottle from time to time, treating it carefully as regards decant and temp and serving it with a complimentary meal. One of my favourite wine writers when asked what to drink with Shepherds Pie, replied that "a rough and ready French red would seem appropriate, but absolutely no harm would come to a really good one".

Ramruma - see my post of 18.14 day before yesterday.  Perhaps he served Shepherds Pie with Lamb sweetbreads.  Now there is a nice idea.  Expensive, but then he was buying Krug.

forgot about this. Thanks blackbarn, sadly the bottle has been vertical for 15 years. Won't be eating any of your suggested food items with it, as you suspected.