(Wine-Searcher) - Wine lovers will be afforded entry to the Abbey of Hautvillers for the first time in 2015.

Champagne producer Dom Pérignon will open the doors of its spiritual home to the great unwashed for the first time this year – at a cost.

The lofty ticket price of €600 ($645) includes access to the place Dom Pérignon called home for 47 years, the Abbey of Hautvillers, educational sessions and a tasting of six wines including Plénitude - 2005, 1998 and 1982.  A bottle of the 1982 Plénitude alone costs on average $1338 (excluding sales taxes) on Wine Searcher, so the €600 ticket is the cheapest way to taste these wines.

A representative of Dom Pérignon told Wine Searcher that each participant will get around 120ml of each of the six wines, so the local taxi company will also be busy.

The Benedictine abbey was founded in 650 and became a major pilgrimage destination following the arrival in 841 of the body of Saint Helena, which was stolen from Rome by a Reims priest.

The money earned from pilgrims in those times allowed the abbey to buy land and vineyards in what is now the Champagne wine-producing region and it was at the abbey that Dom Pérignon carried out his work as a cellarmaster. Pérignon was a local lad, whose family had owned vineyards in the region for generations. Under his watch, the abbey doubled the size of its holdings and increased the quality of the product, with help from another scholar of the abbey, Dom Thierry Ruinart, whose name also lives on in Champagne.