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Dom Pérignon Unveils Its 2017 Vintage in a High-Profile Presentation at Galerie Cheval Blanc
Dom Pérignon has launched its 2017 vintage at Galerie Cheval Blanc, with a presentation designed by Mathias Kiss and orchestrated by Alain Ducasse and Emmanuel Pilon.
What happened
On 12 May 2026, Dom Pérignon unveiled its 2017 vintage at Galerie Cheval Blanc in France. The presentation was designed by artist Mathias Kiss, whilst the event itself was orchestrated by Alain Ducasse and Emmanuel Pilon. The gathering brought together a constellation of creative and culinary talent to mark the release of a champagne that the house has chosen to bring to the world despite the considerable difficulties that defined the 2017 growing season in Champagne.
Why it matters
2017 presented the Champagne region with a particularly demanding year for production. Against that backdrop, Dom Pérignon's decision to release a vintage — rather than decline to do so — carries considerable weight. The house's willingness to stand behind the harvest, and to announce it with such an ambitious and carefully composed event, amounts to a public declaration of confidence in what the year ultimately yielded.
The choice of collaborators reinforces that signal. Mathias Kiss, whose work is rooted in a precise and considered visual language, shaped the aesthetic of the presentation. Alain Ducasse and Emmanuel Pilon brought their orchestration to the occasion, lending the launch a gravity that extends well beyond a routine commercial announcement. Taken together, the event reads as a deliberate statement of intent from a house that rarely acts without purpose.
Context
Dom Pérignon has long maintained a policy of releasing vintages only in years it judges worthy of the designation. The decision not to produce a vintage in a given year is itself a form of communication — one that makes each release a considered act rather than a commercial inevitability. The 2017 vintage, emerging from a year widely acknowledged as challenging for the region, sits within that tradition of selective disclosure. By presenting it at Galerie Cheval Blanc, with collaborators of the calibre assembled for this occasion, the house has framed the release as something to be examined seriously rather than simply consumed.