DOM PÉRIGNON BY DAVID LYNCH, A LIMITED EDITION
To make “the best wine in the world”, said Dom Pierre Pérignon, who devoted his life as cellarer and procurator of Hautvillers Abbey to this quest.
Today, the same desire drives each new Dom Pérignon vintage. The same taste for experimentation. For each vintage is a new beginning.
During a photographic exploration, the creator David Lynch interpreted the bottle and the emblematic Dom Pérignon crest. Today, he sheds new light on his vision of the Dom Pérignon brand, illustrating the packaging of this wine through a
limited edition of Dom Pérignon Rosé and Dom Pérignon Blanc.
This interpretation is an illustration of the power of creation.
“Dom Pérignon by David Lynch” is presented in two boxes, one for Dom Pérignon Millésime 2003, the other for Dom Pérignon Rosé Millésime 2000.
The box
It bears David Lynch’s signature amid changing reflections in a holographic universe.
It looks like a little theater, as David Lynch likes to invent them: the silk ribbons at each end allow the curtain to be lifted on the inside of the box, revealing the bottle.
The bottle
When describing his work on the Dom Pérignon bottle, David Lynch speaks of research into its “depth” and “three-dimensionality”. Whether for Dom Pérignon Blanc or Dom Pérignon Rosé, each bottle is adorned with these
interplays of light and shadow, these effects of surface and depth. For this bottle, David Lynch imagined an escutcheon with a random patina, bronze for Dom Pérignon 2003, almost violine for Dom Pérignon Rosé 2000. Thick and metallic, it is marbled with granite reflections, pricked
with mica sparkles, and streaked with traces of dazzling aesthetic modernity. His silver-colored signature stands out like an elegant gesture.
He has dressed the bottles and cases of these two vintages in the image of his world: Dom Pérignon 2003, intense and luminous, and Dom Pérignon Rosé 2000, a deep, sustained color with light amber and copper highlights.
The twenty jeroboams
For this very limited, numbered edition, David Lynch has designed a metal gown based on the photos he took in December 2011.
A master goldsmith in the art of tableware has been commissioned to create the twenty metal gowns according to the rules and craftsmanship of a long-established French tradition. The work on the gowns is finely chiselled, enveloping the
bottle in the same bronze and violet patina as its brushed glass. The effects of reflections, depths and light, which he has intuitively brought to life in his photographs, are all present.
These twenty collector’s items are a tribute to the two
vintages they serve, two of which will be hand-signed by David Lynch himself.
TASTING NOTES
Dom Pérignon Millésime 2003, singular and surprising intensity
Nose: the bouquet spirals from luminous floral sweetness to the gritty minerality so typical of Dom Pérignon, candied fruit, vegetal notes, the incredible freshness of camphor leaf, and finally plunges into darker, spicy, licorice wood.
Palate: at this stage, the wine is still physical. It calls out, it solicits, more tactile and vibrant than aromatic. It is built on rhythm and rupture.
At first, a certain roundness is apparent, before being confronted with a mineral verticality that slowly stretches out, bitter, iodized and saline. 2003, the year of all excesses, remains in the collective unconscious of France and Champagne. Words fail to describe this year, so extreme was it… This vintage is a real challenge to creation.
After a particularly cold, dry and harsh winter, spring promises to be mild and deceptively peaceful. What had miraculously escaped frost and hail will have to endure the scorching heat right up to harvest time. Champagne experienced its hottest summer in 53 years.
The ripening of these grapes, in small quantities, meant that the harvest was the earliest in Champagne’s history since 1822. This harvest, perfectly ripe and healthy, is to be compared with the legendary 1947, 1959 and 1976.
Dom Pérignon Rosé Millésime 2000, a bold and magnetic character
Nose: initial floral notes give way immediately to black cherry and candied zest. This is complemented by cocoa and smoky accents.
The palate: impeccably constructed and classic: the sensation of balance, coherence and integration dominates. The fruit is astonishingly bright and fleshy. The initial solidity becomes more tactile, and finally serene, on a subtly bitter-sweet note (pink grapefruit).
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