The shadowy halls of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers in France’s Champagne region have long been synonymous with local wine history, a centuries-old backdrop for some of the most influential figures in local wine history—and, as of this year, one of the greatest artists of our time as well. Located just north of Épernay, the Benedictine monastery dates back to 650 AD, the sprawling gothic edifice …
Only a multidisciplinary designer and architect could conjure the exquisite, unexpected confluence of form and flavor found within Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream‘s new seven-course Dom Pérignon pairing menu—a poetic dining experience that’s far more than ice cream and champagne. Timed according to the release of, and designed (in part) to pair with, Dom Pérignon’s Vintage 2003 Plénitude 2, architect Stephanie Goto‘s ice cream-infused omakase menu—devised …
Celebrating a new vintage of Dom Pérignon is always an event, and doing it at its spiritual home in the fields of the Hautvilliers Abbey in France’s Champagne region, all the more so. But this wasn’t a typical release. The adjectives and superlatives of the industry fly around faster than most can keep up with, but everyone is saying that the 2008 vintage will go …
