In the 17th century, Dom Pierre Prignon, the cellar master of the Abbey of Hautvillers in Epernay, developed a wine whose extraordinary quality would make him the spiritual father of Champagne and one of the great visionaries of the winemaking world. Dom Prignon longed to produce the best wine in the world and there is much written testimony to the success of Dom Prignons wine with the most noble and wealthy personalities of the era.