Once a year Dom Pérignon opens its doors a little wider than usual. Révélations is the house’s annual rendezvous, a gathering that lets its guests look at the inspirations, encounters and craftsmanship behind the wines. The 2026 edition was built around a single word: place. The question behind it: how strongly terroir, landscape and environment shape the creation of a wine.
Vintage 2018, a first for Vincent Chaperon
At the centre of the evening stood a new wine. Dom Pérignon Vintage 2018 is the first vintage crafted entirely under the direction of Cellar Master Vincent Chaperon. It comes from a year the house describes as exceptionally generous in Champagne, and Dom Pérignon speaks of a wine with a remarkable sense of harmony and fullness, carrying the balance that it places at the heart of every one of its creations.
An artist on the theme of place
To take the idea beyond the glass, the house invited the French artist Claudine Drai to explore the relationship between place and creation. Dom Pérignon sees her poetic vision as an echo of the work in its own vineyards, where each plot brings its own nuance to the identity of the wine. It is a fitting picture for a champagne house: every assemblage is, in the end, a conversation between many small places.
Art and gastronomy at one table
As every year, Révélations brought together leading figures from art and gastronomy. Among the guests of the 2026 edition were Tilda Swinton, Olivier Saillard, Eneko Atxa and Josean Alija, whose perspectives feed the conversation between wine, culture and contemporary creation that the house regards as the spirit of the event.
The format has a history. In 2024 the fourth edition of Révélations took place in Barcelona, against the backdrop of Ricardo Bofill’s La Fábrica, with the reveal of Dom Pérignon Vintage 2015 and Vintage 2006 Plénitude 2 and a six-hands dinner by Vincent Chaperon with the chefs Albert Adrià and Niko Romito. The pictures from 2026 show the same idea in a new setting: a long table, set by candlelight.
What it means at a private table
A new vintage is always a good reason to build a dinner around it. If Vintage 2018 finds its way onto your table, treat it as the centre of the menu rather than as the aperitif: pour it at the table, alongside a course with the same generosity. Our tasting menu for eight shows how such an evening is structured, and the guide to glassware explains why a champagne of this level deserves a tulip shape rather than a coupe.
