Champagne Brut
Edition Damien Hirst Vintage 2018

Dom Pérignon pursues a creative ambition that coincides with the relentless search for a harmony capable of stirring emotion. Every creative process has its constraints and here the constraint is the year itself, an absolute commitment to bear witness to the harvest of one single year, whatever the challenge, even to the point of skipping the release of that Vintage should the harvest fail to reach the standard of the Maison. Time remains essential in this equation, since at least eight years of elaboration are needed to reach the stylistic ideal of the Maison. In the darkness of the cellars the wine undergoes an active transformation in contact with the lees, until it achieves the harmony that is its defining trait, and it is there that everything happens, with great precision, on the edge of an extraordinary balance.

This limited edition, Vintage 2018, comes dressed by Damien Hirst, one of the most influential artists working today. Inspired by his "Kaleidoscope" series, it turns Dom Pérignon's historic shield into a contemporary emblem, built from fragments of colour that repeat and transform until they form a harmonious whole. This is where the artist and the Maison meet, in the principle of assemblage: just as a kaleidoscope gathers scattered fragments into a single image, Dom Pérignon brings together the grapes of each vintage to reveal their harmony. For this edition Hirst chose a deep blue, a symbol of infinity, to capture the wine's radiant and singular character. The colour runs through the whole edition, from the label and gift box to the neck collar that bears his signature.

On tasting, Dom Pérignon Vintage 2018 appears radiant and luminous, with a rich, deep transparency that unfolds over a summery fragrance of juicy orchard fruit, tropical notes of yellow kiwi and mango and vegetal nuances of ivy and balsamic herbs. On the palate it is broad and dense, enveloping, with bitter notes that expand in tension with the sweetness and a finish that opens onto a rare apricot imprint, the generous close of a luminous and extraordinarily long persistence.