Expressions of Harmony: Dom Pérignon Turns Three Vintages Into One Conversation
In New York and Los Angeles, Dom Pérignon unveiled Expressions of Harmony, a sensorial journey that presented three distinct releases as a living dialogue across time. Within the luminous galleries of High Line Nine, and later at the James Fuentes Gallery on the West Coast, guests discovered Vintage 2017, Vintage 2008 Plénitude 2, and Rosé Vintage 2010, each cuvée revealing a different cadence of energy, depth, and emotion. Across three acts of sound, cuisine, and performance, the Maison invited collectors and aesthetes to experience Champagne as a choreographed interplay of texture, aroma, and light
There are moments when a house distills its entire philosophy into a single experience, a place where taste and time speak the same language. Dom Pérignon's Expressions of Harmony is such a moment, an immersive unveiling that treats each cuvée as a movement within a score, each glass a note that lingers just long enough to suggest the next. To mark a rare year, the first time the Maison has released three vintages at once, Dom Pérignon built a multi-sensory tasting experience open to the public that reimagines the traditional Champagne launch through design, sound, performance, and cuisine. It came to New York first, then traveled west to Los Angeles, presenting three releases together as an eloquent conversation captured in crystal.
The New York Revelation
For three days, June 12 to June 14, 2026, Expressions of Harmony unfolded at High Line Nine, a suite of contemporary art galleries beneath the elevated park that has reinvented Chelsea's cultural rhythm. Designed by architect Markus Dochantschi of studioMDA, the space balances light and restraint so that each room speaks for itself. For the tasting experience it was stripped to cool concrete, a showroom where Dom Pérignon bottles glowed against stone textured walls, the whole venue staged like its own art gallery. Rather than a conventional tasting, guests moved through three distinct acts, each interpreting a single vintage through its own sensory lens: Vintage 2017, Vintage 2008 Plénitude 2, and Rosé Vintage 2010.
The eve of the public sessions, June 11, drew a constellation of cultural figures, with guests including Uma Thurman, Martha Stewart, François Arnaud, Luka Sabbat, LaQuan Smith, and Laurie Anderson moving through the rooms. The evening closed with a surprise performance by Mark Ronson, who turned the gallery into a late-night dance floor. The atmosphere felt cinematic, New York in summer, pale gold in the glass, a hush before each first sip.
Three Acts, One Conversation
The first act, built around Dom Pérignon Vintage 2017, was shaped by contrasts. Guests entered an audio-led soundscape created by Jonathan Weiss of Oswalds Mill Audio, working with New York sound specialists Silence Please. Sound and sensation revealed the dualities of the vintage, the changing seasons rendered as something physical, its clarity acting as a bright overture that prepared the palate for contemplative depth.
The second act centered on Dom Pérignon Vintage 2008 Plénitude 2, elevated with time. This was the culinary immersion, marking the return of Reika Alexander, founder of the beloved EN Japanese Brasserie, which closed in 2024. Flying in for the occasion, Alexander built a menu around the number three, which signifies harmony in the Eastern world: caviar with uni soy milk ice cream, a study in texture layering tofu mousse with shiso shaved ice and dashi, and EN's classic miso black cod, lightened so it would not compete with the Champagne. EN's famous fried chicken made an appearance too, a wink to longtime devotees of the shuttered West Village room. At the heart of the act, a single dish reflected the wine's long evolution on the lees, layered and intense, a crescendo that felt both tensile and enveloping.
The final act belonged to Rosé Vintage 2010, a radical exploration staged as a live performance of the traditional Japanese mochitsuki ritual. Rather than a conventional pairing, the mochi experience turned dining into immersive theater, using tactility and performance to bring the vintage to life, a sculpted rose hue with savory undertones that lingered like a closing chord. Together the three created a triptych of time, a choreography of youth, expanded maturity, and radiance.
A Sensory Map
Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon has often described Dom Pérignon as a continuous quest for harmony, a pursuit that evolves through aging, choice, and intuition. The Maison captures these evolutions in distinct stages called Plénitudes, milestones that mark a wine's awakening at different points in its long rest, each release a deepened dialogue between wine and time. Across the tasting experience, that dialogue mapped onto the senses:
Energy, the immediate impression, shaped by vintage and the fine bead that lifts aromas with quiet insistence.
Texture, the tactile story, from the silk of a youthful release to the layered density of a second Plénitude.
Time, the invisible ingredient, captured in the Maison's structured approach to aging, releasing, and revisiting.
Harmony here was not uniformity. It was tension held beautifully in place, a conversation between elements that might otherwise collide, three releases set side by side so guests could notice how resonance accumulates as one moves from youthful brightness to profound concentration to rose colored grace.
The Los Angeles Chapter
Expressions of Harmony did not end in New York. The tasting experience traveled west for a second American engagement, running June 25 to 26, 2026, at the James Fuentes Gallery in Los Angeles. The same three-act journey carried over, the same audio-led encounter, culinary immersion, and tactile performance, extending the Maison's invitation to a second city. For those who travel to taste, the two stops offered a destination experience within each city, a gallery turned atelier where Champagne was treated as contemporary art, a brief window that rewarded curiosity with a rare comparative tasting.
Why It Matters
Great Champagne sits at the intersection of craft and patience. By presenting three expressions together, Dom Pérignon makes that intersection legible and deeply pleasurable. The Maison's methodical approach to aging, formalized through the idea of Plénitudes, transforms time into an ingredient, a creative partner rather than a constraint. Expressions of Harmony is the house at its most articulate, a delicious argument for listening to wine as one would a symphony, following themes as they return, evolve, and finally resolve in quiet radiance.
Details to Remember
Expressions of Harmony ran in New York at High Line Nine from June 12 to June 14, 2026, then in Los Angeles at the James Fuentes Gallery from June 25 to June 26, 2026.
The three releases presented together were Dom Pérignon Vintage 2017, Vintage 2008 Plénitude 2, and Rosé Vintage 2010.
Each vintage anchored its own act: an audio-led soundscape by Jonathan Weiss of Oswalds Mill Audio for Vintage 2017, a culinary immersion by Reika Alexander of EN Japanese Brasserie for Plénitude 2, and a mochitsuki performance for Rosé 2010.
Plénitudes describe the wine's phases of expression through time, with notable releases after years and decades on the lees.
In a world that moves quickly, Dom Pérignon's Expressions of Harmony offers a rare luxury, the chance to feel time slow, to notice detail, and to taste the quiet joy of balance perfected.
