In the history of champagne there is a before and after Dom Pérignon. Dom Pierre Pérignon was a monk who devoted his life at the Benedictine abbey of Hautvillers to pursuing the ambition of “creating the best wine in the world”.
Legend has it that the day he achieved his purpose he exclaimed in surprise “I’m drinking stars!”; he had just discovered a drink so delicate that his fame quickly spread throughout the kingdom, as far as Louis XIV’s court in Versailles.
