Pierre Pérignon, better known to the world as Dom Pérignon, died September 14, 1715.
Dominican monk Pérignon was in charge of making wine for Hautvillers Abbey.

Contrary to popular wine mythology, he did not create the Dom Pérignon brand. The champagne we know by that name was created by Moët & Chandon in 1921 and named in his honour. 

If he didn’t invent the vin gris, nor the bottle, nor the sparkling, nor the cork, what is he even good for??? Dom Pérignon was simply one of the best wine makers of France, and a very famous one at that.
Dom Pérignon: Epic Champagne Monk Life and Symbol of Luxury (uncorkchampagne.com)

There are no good stamps featuring Pérignon but one excellent one celebrating champagne. 

Olympic champion Ms. Eleanor Helm excluded from American team. 
She had drunk too much champagne… 
Maroc Morning newspaper 1936

Champagne Girl
part of the French Life and Landmarks series 
Issued by French post in 1938
Designer: André Spitz Engraver: Antonin Delzers

The Champagne Girl stamp could very well have referred to record breaking gold medal athlete Eleanor Holm, although it didn’t. Holm was a top American swimmer, nicknamed “The Torpedo” and a sure bet to win  gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. A fan favourite, she was known for her athletic abilities, her nightclub lifestyle and love of jazz.  Oh and champagne.

She was on her way to the Berlin Olympics, along with the rest of the US team, when she ran afoul of the prudish standards about how a woman should behave, and the puritanical views of the head of the US Olympic committee. As the S.S. Manhattan steamed out to sea, Holm was invited to a party thrown by the Press Corp in the first class suites. There she enjoyed dancing and music, won a pile of money on dice games (rumoured to be a couple hundred dollars) and sipped champagne throughout the night. Before the party was in full swing, the women’s team chaperone tried to shuffle the energetic Holm off to bed at a ghastly early hour: “This chaperone came up to me and told me it was time to go to bed. God, it was about 9 o’clock, and who wanted to go down in that basement to sleep anyway? So I said to her: ‘Oh, is it really bedtime? Did you make the Olympic team or did I?’”

Holm was a married woman of independent means and took a very dim view of the way women were treated as children who needed to be minded. The chaperone scurried off and complained to Avery Brundage, US Olympic team president and all round cramp in Eleanor’s life. He didn’t like Eleanor. He didn’t like her independence and certainly didn’t like her enjoyment of the sparkly wine. She was setting a terrible example for the other athletes in his mind and the next morning he booted her from the team. Nothing Eleanor or her teammates could say would change Brundage’s mind. She was off the team. 

 “That’s all I was doing. At home it was my custom to have a glass of wine or champagne every day after a workout.” Eleanor Holm 1936

News of her removal made the news around the world. Her fellow athletes petitioned to have her re-instated as did American fans, but Brundage would not be moved. Holm had the last laugh much to Brundage’s dismay, when the International News Service hired her as their official Olympic correspondent. She found herself reporting on the games and hobnobbing with royalty and all the important people of the day. She had free run of the games as well as an open invitation to all the big social events during the Olympics.

American swimmer Eleanor Holm, who was removed from the United States Olympic delegation for liking too much champagne, was immediately hired as a reporter by a major New York evening newspaper. Eleanor Holm looked at everything from a cinematic perspective. Here are two proofs: The most stylish athlete on the American team is 400 meter hurdler Glen Hardin. He is a physically perfect exemplar of manhood and, for this reason, remarkably gifted as a screen actor. It constitutes a famous advertisement for the men of America.

And this account of a conversation in English by the former crown prince, Wilhelm:
Well, royal highness, you are just as natural as the rest of us mere mortals. You should make movies. You have an ideal face for films.
But the Crown Prince shortened the interview by declaiming, in German, to the people who were presented to him at the same time as the impertinent Eleanor:
This woman is so funny!  
Le Miroir des sports 1936-11-03 

 
Le Miroir des sports : publication hebdomadaire illustrée, p. 15   1936-11-03
 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38728672

The publicity about her exit from the team helped her career enormously post ’36 Olympics as well. Holm would later recount how her dismissal made her more famous than had she just won another medal. She went on to have, by all accounts, a vibrant and fascinating life that included appearing in 4 movies, a staring role in Aquacades (a swimming revue), thumbed her nose at Nazis, had a singing career, and used a Rembrandt to prevent her soon to be ex from coming back into the apartment when she tossed him out. Hopefully she was sipping a glass of champagne when she propped the painting under the door handle and called her husband to let him know what would happen if he tried to force his way in.  

By 1984 it was reported she no longer drank champagne, but did enjoy dry whites on occasion until her death in 2014. 

It wasn’t recorded which champagne Holm drank that fateful night in 1936, but if you’re going to go out in a blaze of publicity, Dom Perignon would be a wise choice. 

Eleanor Holm Whalen, 30’s Swimming Champion, Dies – The New York Times (nytimes.com)