Dom Perignon undeclared vintages: every year it was not made

The short answer

Dom Perignon undeclared vintages are the harvest years in which the house made no Dom Perignon, because it releases a wine only from a single year it judges good enough. Taking the declared years published by Wikipedia and The Finest Bubble, which agree from 1921 to 2017, no white Dom Perignon was made in 1922 to 1925, 1927, 1930 to 1933, 1935 to 1942, 1944 to 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1956 to 1958, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2016. Robb Report reports that cellar master Vincent Chaperon rejected the whole 2023 harvest. The years 2019 to 2022 have not been released, so their status is not yet known. Richard Juhlin ranks a 1937, which neither list includes, and 1986 exists only as a rose.

Why no complete list exists, and how this one was built

Ask for every year dom perignon undeclared vintages cover and the honest first answer is that the house does not publish one. The vintage library page on its own site, which Wikipedia cites, showed only recent years when we fetched it, so it cannot be read as a list of every declaration. What does exist is a set of published lists of the years that were declared. The gaps between those years are the years that were not.

We took two independent lists of declared white vintages. The first is the Wikipedia article on Dom Perignon, which cites the house vintage archive. The second is the vintage history published by The Finest Bubble, the London Champagne specialist, in an article dated November 2025. Year for year, the two agree on every declaration from 1921 to 2017. The Finest Bubble also lists 2018, which Wikipedia does not yet carry. We then checked a third source, Richard Juhlin's published ranking of Dom Perignon vintages, and a press report on the 2023 harvest. Where any of them disagree, we say so below rather than pick a side.

Dom Perignon undeclared vintages, year by year

The first Dom Perignon vintage was 1921. The next was 1926, so 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925 were not made. After 1926 came 1928 and 1929, which leaves 1927 out. The house then declared 1934, so 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933 are absent.

The longest gap in the record runs from 1935 to 1942: eight harvests with no Dom Perignon in either list, spanning the late 1930s and the first years of the Second World War. A 1943 was then declared, followed by nothing in 1944, 1945 and 1946, and then 1947. The list continues with 1949, so 1948 is missing.

The 1950s and 1960s were declared in a steadier rhythm. 1950 and 1951 were not made, nor were 1954, 1956, 1957 or 1958. From the 1960s the house skipped 1960, 1963, 1965, 1967 and 1968, declaring 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966 and 1969 between them.

From 1969 the gaps grow shorter. The years not made are 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994 and 1997. Since 2000 the skipped years are 2001, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2016, with 2023 rejected outright.

Where the sources disagree

1937. Richard Juhlin's ranking on the Champagne Club site includes a 1937 Cuvee Dom Perignon among the wines he has scored. Neither Wikipedia nor The Finest Bubble lists a 1937. We cannot settle this from the sources we have, so 1937 sits in the undeclared list above with this caveat attached: one respected taster records a bottle, and the published declaration lists do not.

The war years. The Finest Bubble and Juhlin both say that no Champagne was created during the Second World War. Yet both lists, and Wikipedia's, include a 1943 Dom Perignon. The statement and the lists cannot both be literally true for 1943; the lists name the wine, so we keep 1943 as declared and read the wartime sentence as a general remark.

1957. Juhlin notes that the 1957 Dom Perignon served to Sean Connery on screen is a vintage that never existed. That agrees with both lists, which move from 1955 to 1959.

The counts. Wikipedia counts 48 white vintages to 2017 and Juhlin also says 48. The Finest Bubble says 50, but the years it actually names come to 49 including 2018. We rely on the years each source names, not on the totals, because the totals do not reconcile with the lists.

This century. Robb Report, reporting the 2023 decision in September 2024, describes it as the fourth time this century the house has not released a vintage, naming 2001, 2011 and 2014. None of the lists we checked includes a 2007 or a 2016 either, so on the published record those two years were also not released. We found no statement from the house that explains the difference.

The 2023 harvest, and the years still to come

2023 is the one skipped year with a first-hand account behind it. Robb Report describes how, after a full harvest and the first fermentation, cellar master Vincent Chaperon judged that the wine did not meet the house standard and rejected the entire cellar of base wine. Instead of a release, the house commissioned an exhibition in Barcelona about the wine it discarded.

The years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 are a different case. Dom Perignon spends many years on the lees before release, and on the sources we checked none of those years has been released yet. An unreleased year is not a skipped year, so they are left off the list until the house releases them or says it will not.

2018 is the latest declared year. The Wine Society offered it on first release in September 2026 as the first Dom Perignon vintage released under Chaperon, and The Finest Bubble lists it. In our dataset the 2018 holds a critic average of 98.0.

Rose, library releases and what the lists leave out

Everything above concerns the white wine. The rose is declared separately and less often. Wikipedia notes that 1986 was the first rose vintage made in a year with no white Dom Perignon, which is why 1986 appears in our undeclared list: a genuine 1986 Dom Perignon can only be a rose.

Plenitude releases, formerly Oenotheque, are later disgorgements of years that were already declared. They add no new years. A bottle labelled with any year in the undeclared list and sold as white Dom Perignon has no declared release behind it, so ask the seller for provenance and have it checked before paying.

What our own database holds for these years

We cross-checked the list against the canonical wine database behind this site. It holds critic scores, prices or drinker notes only for declared years. For the undeclared years it holds nothing a reader could use: a handful of empty catalogue records, for 1924, 2011 and the unreleased 2021, 2022 and 2023, each with no review, no offer, no auction lot and no price attached. An empty record is a placeholder, not evidence that a wine exists, and none of them is published on this site.

For the declared years on either side of a gap, our figures are on the vintage pages. The 1966 holds a critic average of 96.0 and the 1969 96.3. The 1985 holds 96.5 and the 1988 93.5. The 2012 holds 97.0 and the 2015 95.3.

Common questions

Sources

• Wikipedia, Dom Perignon: declared white and rose vintages, citing the house vintage archive, checked 2026-09-29
• The Finest Bubble, Dom Perignon: vintages and history (Nick Baker, November 2025), checked 2026-09-29
• Champagne Club by Richard Juhlin, Dom Perignon ranking 1921 to 2015, checked 2026-09-29
• Robb Report, Why Dom Perignon scrapped its entire 2023 Champagne vintage (September 2024), checked 2026-09-29
• The Wine Society, Dom Perignon 2018 first release, checked 2026-09-29

By WineExperts. First published 29 September 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.