P2
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters with caviar, roasted turbot with butter sauce, aged Comté cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Dom Pérignon's Plénitude 2 (P2) represents the second life of a vintage, capturing a moment of peak energy, precision, and expansion. While the initial release (P1) of a vintage occurs after approximately nine years on the lees, a portion of the bottles is held back in the chalk cellars of Épernay to mature further. Undergoing at least 15 years of slow, active maturation on its yeast sediment, the wine undergoes a profound transformation. This extended autolysis imbues the Champagne with a majestic complexity, a creamy, tactile mouthfeel, and a paradoxical, piercing freshness. The concept of the Plénitudes is a testament to the house's mastery of time, showcasing how a single vintage can express entirely different facets of its personality over decades.
🍾 About the Producer
Dom Pérignon traces its lineage to the pioneering viticultural innovations of 17th-century Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Pérignon at the historic Abbey of Hautvillers, though the house was officially launched as Champagne's first prestige cuvée in 1921 (released in 1936) by Moët & Chandon (LVMH). Rooted across premier crus and historic grand crus in the Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, and Côte des Blancs, the estate's vines flourish in pure Belemnite and Micraster chalk terroirs that impart profound minerality and tension. Guided by Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon, Dom Pérignon operates exclusively as a vintage wine, crafted only in years capable of exceptional aging. Blending roughly equal parts Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the house emphasizes reductive precision, reductive lees aging, and textural interplay without oak intervention. Alongside its flagship Vintage Brut and Rosé, the benchmark Plénitude releases (P2 and P3) reveal metamorphic secondary and tertiary complexity, exemplifying the pinnacle of Champagne's structural grandeur and longevity.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
12.5%