Dom Perignon Rose: vintages, assemblage and release history

The short answer

Dom Perignon Rose is a rose d'assemblage: a still red wine from Pinot Noir is added to a white Chardonnay blend before the bottle fermentation. Decanter reported in 2023 that the red wine in the 2009 came from the villages of Hautvillers, Ay and Bouzy, that the Chardonnay blend is drawn almost exclusively from grand cru villages, and that the rose is always released later than the white, with the 2009 seeing at least 12 years on lees. The red wine share changes with the year. Decanter reported in 2021 that the 2008 contains 10% red wine, and cellar master Vincent Chaperon put the 2005 at 27% and the 2006 at 21%. The first Dom Perignon Rose vintage was 1959: Decanter reported that only 306 bottles were made, all of them for the Shah of Iran's 1971 celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire, and none was released for commercial sale. Twenty-eight rose vintages had been released by 2026, against 48 white vintages.

Understanding Dom Perignon rose vintages

Dom Perignon is always a vintage wine, and the rose is made in fewer years than the white. The list of releases on Wikipedia counts 28 Dom Perignon Rose vintages up to 2026, against 48 white vintages: 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009. The 1986 was the first rose vintage made in a year when the white was not produced, and as of July 2026 the current rose release is the 2009.

Cellar master Vincent Chaperon told Decanter in 2023 that the house is not obliged to make the rose every year, but that it is the aim. He called it the most challenging wine to make, because of the challenge of blending the power of the red wine with the harmony of Dom Perignon blanc.

This site does not yet hold price data for Dom Perignon Rose. The prices, critic averages and drinking windows on this site's vintage chart and price pages are for the white (blanc) Dom Perignon, not the rose.

Assemblage and cellar discipline

Dom Perignon Rose is a rose d'assemblage, meaning that a still red wine from Pinot Noir is added to a white Chardonnay blend before the bottle fermentation. For the 2009, Decanter reported that the red wine came from the villages of Hautvillers, Ay and Bouzy, and that the Chardonnay blend was composed almost exclusively from vineyards in grand cru villages.

The share of red wine changes with the year. Decanter reported in 2021 that the 2008 rose, a final blend of 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay, features 10% Pinot Noir red wine, low compared with previous years; Chaperon added that the 2005 was at 27% and the 2006 at 21%. Decanter's 2023 tasting of the 2009 gives a 13% red wine addition.

As reported by Decanter, the rose is always released later than the standard blanc, and the 2009 edition spent at least 12 years on the lees before release.

The 1959 first vintage and older rose releases

The first Dom Perignon Rose vintage was 1959. Decanter reported in 2008 that Moet & Chandon made 306 bottles of the 1959 rose, all of which went to the Shah of Iran for his 1971 celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus the Great's founding of the Persian Empire, and that the bottles were never released for commercial sale. Two of them were auctioned by Acker Merrall & Condit in April 2008 and bought by an anonymous bidder for US$84,700. Richard Geoffroy, then the Dom Perignon chef de cave, called the 1959 'a rare, superlative, mythical vintage', adding that its light would inspire the creation of Dom Perignon rose forever.

Wikipedia records that in May 2010 a 30-bottle lot of Oenotheque rose bottles and magnums from 1966, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1988 and 1990, released from the house's reserve cellar, sold in Hong Kong for HK$1,331,000 (US$170,641), which it describes as the world auction record for a single lot of champagne.

The 2008 and 2009 rose releases

Dom Perignon Rose 2008 was released on 1 December 2021, with a recommended retail price of US$350 a bottle, according to Decanter. Decanter reported that 2008 was the year the two-part renovation of the house's red wine winery was completed, and that the red wine for the 2008 came from Pinot Noir grown on the house's dedicated plots in Hautvillers, Bouzy and Ay. Chaperon described 2008 to Decanter as a classic vintage in which the weather was not as hot as it had been over the previous 15 years, which let the house use the Pinot Noir of a warm village like Ay while keeping balance. After 12 years in the cellar, he said, the rose had started to reveal the harmony the team was looking for.

The 2009 rose launched in Venice in June 2023, almost four years after the release of the white Dom Perignon 2009. Decanter reported that the 2009 harvest began on 12 September for Dom Perignon after a slow start and a warm, dry August, and Chaperon called the vintage embracing, generous and soft. Decanter's Tom Hewson wrote that, just as the 2006 rose was a step up from the white, the 2009 dials up the drama and interest from the standard 2009 white release.

The luminous label

Vinovest describes Dom Perignon Luminous as a special edition offered for some Dom Perignon Brut and Rose vintages. A small switch at the bottom of the bottle lights up the crest on the label, which glows for up to eight to ten hours, according to the same page.

Common questions

Sources

• Decanter first taste: Dom Perignon Rose 2009, checked 2026-09-29
• Decanter: Dom Perignon Rose 2008 released, checked 2026-09-29
• Decanter: Acker Merrall sells 'Shah's Champagne', checked 2026-09-29
• Wikipedia: Dom Perignon, checked 2026-09-29
• Vinovest: Dom Perignon Luminous, checked 2026-09-29

By WineExperts. First published 21 August 2026, last updated 29 September 2026. Figures from our tracked merchant prices and recorded sales; text prepared with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed above.