In 1668, Dom Pierre Pérignon, a Benedictine monk, was appointed procurator at the Abbey of Hautvillers. 

At a time when everything was guided by empirical methods, Dom Pierre Pérignon developed revolutionary techniques for viticulture and winemaking based on precise rules. 

Father Pérignon modernized the abbey, restored its vineyard, and set about to make "the best wine in the world".

The "wine of Father Pérignon" became one of the most sought-after wines in France. It was served at Versailles and enjoyed by none other than Louis XIV.

Profoundly inspired, his vision revolutionized winemaking with standards that remain at the heart of all champagne wines today. 

The legacy of Dom Pierre Pérignon continues to nourish Dom Pérignon's creative vision.

The Abbey of Hautvillers, where it all began.

According to legend, around the year 650, a dove led Saint Nivard, who was walking in the hills, to the spot. After it finally came to rest on a beech tree, Saint Nivard, guided by the bird's mysterious flight in which he recognized God's divine will, decided to found the Abbey of Hautvillers there.

From 1668, Dom Pierre Pérignon brings the abbey to light by imagining a remarkable wine.

The Abbey of Hautvillers is located on one of the most beautiful sites in Champagne: overlooking the valley, it is surrounded by an amphitheater of vineyard-covered hills.

The serene, austere beauty of the Abbey and the spiritual legacy of the place continues to inspire the creative vision of Dom Pérignon today.

All creative processes have their constraints. Dom Pérignon's constraint is the Vintage: Dom Pérignon can only be produced from the harvest of a single year.

Dom Pérignon's ambition is to bear witness to each year, whatever the challenges may be.

Dom Pierre Pérignon dares to put itself on the line, to take risks, to go as far as accepting that it will not declare the vintage.

Dom Pérignon's creative legacy is this reinvention of its work with each vintage.

Dom Pérignon Vintage is the culmination of the elaboration and creative processes. It embodies the vision.

Dom Pérignon Vintage expresses itself fully in its three dimensions:

The year: the character of the seasons

The Plénitudes: evolution by successive windows of expression on the way of the long maturation on lees.

The colour: White or Rosé.

These three dimensions are inseparable, and no combination is quite like any other. Each has its own space and time. As such, Dom Pérignon can only be the sum total of all past Vintages, and those yet to come.

The assemblage is the foundation of the Dom Pérignon style. It is guided by timeless principles that

have always taken precedence over winemaking techniques and their evolution.

Dom Pérignon can only be made from a blend of grape varieties and terroirs: our goal has always

been to create an enhanced whole with ever-more tension, rhythm, completeness and complexity.

Dom Pérignon is striving for an ideal.

The assemblage of Dom Pérignon is a perfect balance of black and white grapes. 

The paradox of opposite and complementary elements of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir create vibration and tension. 

Dom Pérignon is designed to be confronted with time. Both the White and – remarkably – the Rosé

are widely recognized for their impressive maturation potential. 

A triumph of non-oxidation and the mystery of maturation on the lees (of the yeast, which makes it effervescent), the wine goes through slow, subtle metamorphoses. The style of Dom Pérignon is perfected. This slow maturation is the price that has to be paid to make Dom Pérignon stand out as one of the most complex of all wines.

It takes no fewer than eight years in the cellar before Dom Pérignon expresses its first plenitude.