Dom Pérignon is, and has always been, exclusively a vintage wine. I could be content with simply letting the vintage express its characteristics through the wine; however, in a constant effort to push the envelope, it is crucial to go one step further: we embrace the vintage and confront it to the singularity of Dom Pérignon in an act of creation. The growing season shapes a vintage, but rarely as much as in 2003.
More than a color, Dark is a reflection of the soul of Dom Pérignon: its intensity, its sensuality, its complexity, its paradoxes, its mystery… Each vintage finds its unique way to achieve and incarnate the ideal of Dom Pérignon.
To claim that the 2003 vintage came as a challenge would be an understatement! In a year of extremes and superlatives, the very unusual climate (which is imprinted into the collective memory of the Champenois) lead to a small and early harvest. The nature of the vintage, in tension with the character of Dom Pérignon, created a duality, the exuberance and austerity playing off each other. The vintage contributed expectations of a rich and solar wine, while the Dom Pérignon signature provided an intense, fresh and firm character
I wish you all a happy 2011! Let’s raise our glass to health, love and dreams fulfilled! The adventure will continue here in the same spirit as in 2010, which means your participation is not only welcome, but encouraged! Photo: Guido Mocafico (Katja Martinez Agency)
We have been tasting the 2010 base wines no fewer than three times in the past couple of months. It only confirms the first impressions we had at the end of the harvest
Dom Pérignon Œnothèque was launched in 2000, long enough ago to look back on what started like a revolution and now feels so natural. We went full circle earlier this year through the addition of Rosé to the Œnothèque program —this was quite an event! Our offer remains limited but consistent, with only two assemblages, White and Rosé, each available in successive Vintage and Œnothèque releases
Went to the gallery where they were having a little exhibition of the glittery Shoes, and had to do interviews and pics for the German newspaper and then we had to go back to the hotel and be picked up by the “2,000” people – it’s a club of twenty guys who got together and they’re going to buy 2,000 bottles of Dom Pérignon which they will put in a sealed room until the year 2,000 and then open it up and drink it and so the running joke is who will be around and who won’t… The Andy Warhol Diaries March 8, 1981 I have always loved this anecdote shared by Andy Warhol in his diaries… More than 20 years after leaving us, Warhol’s presence has rarely been felt so strongly. I am pleased that Dom Pérignon is now paying an homage to him through a limited edition release of the 2002 vintage. Andy Warhol is a true icon who broke and reinvented every rule in the artistic field
Royal ballotine of pheasant Petit pâté en croûte
Great wines are blessed with a transcendental quality: they are the time machine bringing the finite of fruit into the infinite realm of imagination and emotion.
A couple of months ago I discussed the opinions of US critics and journalists regarding 2002 Dom Pérignon, mentioning that their colleagues from the UK were sure to follow with their own commentaries. Jancis Robinson MW had great words about this champagne, starting with the “extraordinarily firm, confident, intense nose”, and comparing it to one of the greatest wines in the world: “Definitely the savoury side of Dom. Nothing remotely sweet or fat – though it’s as intense as a Montrachet More like a Montrachet with a bit of carbon dioxide laced into it than a typical Champagne.” She gave it a perfect score of 20/20, only the fourth Champagne to get this honor
