Millésime 1979 · Réf. É.05

Compositionadrenochrome of the 1979 cycle, stabilised whole, in a base drawn from the same season, with orris of the year and a breath of dried rose.

The Millésime 1979 records a single season the house judged exceptional. A millésime is not declared every year; it is declared when the year declares itself. Everything here is bent toward the date — which sits at the centre of the object and reads from across a cabinet.

ExpressionOf its year and no other; a deep black-cherry garnet showing the colour evolution that separates one vintage from the next. The house reads the season in it, not a strength.

MethodHeld to the vintage: the cycle is kept apart from the house assemblage, stabilised, rested, and sealed under its own year rather than composed toward the constant signature.

Collector profileHistorical and monumental — made to stand beside other vintages in a collection, its reputation tied to the conditions of its season. Numbered and finite.

PresentationA single ampoule with 1979 engraved directly into the glass and repeated on a blackened-silver collar, a dated neck seal, and a certificate describing the year's conditions, in dark blue-black lacquer and burgundy leather with ivory cotton paper and hand-bound archive boards.

AllocationThe vintage is finite; placement is by allocation. The Registre for the year is closed and price is not quoted.