Dom Pérignon has collaborated with Takashi Murakami to create two limited-edition designs for the 2025 year-end season: one for Dom Pérignon Vintage 2015 and another for the debut of Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 2010. This partnership continues the Maison’s tradition of working with leading artists and highlights its focus on creativity and innovation.
For both Dom Pérignon and Murakami, nature is central. The 2025 editions merge their interpretations: for Dom Pérignon, nature provides both inspiration and material—grapes, terroir, climate, and craftsmanship combine to turn raw elements into emotion. For Murakami, nature appears in a different form, expressed through a vivid, imaginative world of bright cartoon flowers and dreamlike characters drawn from fantasy and pop culture.
Takashi Murakami a PhD-trained nihonga painter, fuses traditional Japanese art with cutting-edge techniques. Drawing on anime and character culture, he populates his playful yet unsettling worlds with figures that echo both myth and pop culture. In 2001, he introduced the “Superflat” aesthetic, a movement blurring high and popular art while reflecting Japan’s post-Hiroshima condition and the legacy of Nihonga, manga, and anime. Hallmarked by two-dimensionality and the absence of perspective, his style permeates every medium.
2015 hosted a wet winter and mild spring gave way to an exceptionally dry summer from mid-May onwards. Hot weather prevailed until mid-August, when the skies opened again. Rains gave way to fine, cool, yet sunny weather for the first two weeks of harvest, which commenced on August 29th. The 2015 vintage has a lot of common denominators with the 2003 vintage but the 2015s are showing a better balance of weight and freshness with their average potential alcohol level of 10.5% and total acidity of 6.9 g/l. The quality and ageing capacity of the vintage has been questioned because of the low acidity, but to me the structure of the wine is not the problem.
The 2010 harvest was marked by a very cold winter with heavy frost patches. Weather improved in the spring and early summer months with cool and consistent temperatures. During August and September storms and humid conditions complicated the ripening process and much of the Pinot Noir being thin skinned largely succumbed to rot. Dom Perignon’s vineyards in the Grand Cru village of Verzenay produced some outstanding Pinot Noir, but there weren’t many examples of great PN from 2010. By contrast Chardonnay was super high quality, one of the best Chardonnay years within the last ten years.
