Dom Perignon

THE BEST WINE IN THE WORLD
Make “the best wine in the world.” It took a visionary spirit and exceptional daring to set such an exalted ambition at the end of the 17th century. But vision and daring were second nature to Pierre Pérignon. Before him, there was only what was known as the wines of Reims, of La Montagne and of La Rivière, according to their origins in the Champagne region. With amazing intuition, Dom Pérignon was the first to see the fabulous promise of luxury. He took very ordinary wines and gave them body, spirit and grace. Through his efforts Champagne wine entered a new world.
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The House of Dom Pérignon has perpetuated the contemporary vision instilled by its founder, and which remains one of true luxury: the constant reinvention of the exceptional. Today, this reinvention is in the hands of the Dom Pérignon Chef de Cave, Richard Geoffroy – whose job is similar to that of an orchestra conductor. The miracle wrought by the assemblage, the fine-tuning to achieve that mysterious balance, always reformulated in a bright new way, between the “white” and the “red”, between the two Dom Pérignon grape varieties: chardonnay and pinot noir.
In Richard Geoffroy’s words, “When this balance is achieved, it is dynamic: a kind of tension and undulating fragility. All the magic of Dom Pérignon is in this high wire act.”
A high wire act that involves a considerable degree of risk-taking and turns the assemblage of each Dom Pérignon champagne into a creative act in the boldest sense of the term. With the birth of a vintage as the final reward. Because making something exceptional means tolerating no compromise. Dom Pérignon is exclusively vintage champagne, in other words the product of the harvest of a single year. And the year must be an exceptional one to be accepted as a new vintage.
Richard Geoffroy again, “It isn’t a value judgement, it is a question of vision and aesthetics. (…) Each Dom Pérignon vintage is unique. Always the same, yet always different.”