Our parcels are situated in the Coteaux Sud d’Epernay (Chavot, Courcourt, Moussy, Epernay, Vaudancourt, and Mancy with three grape varieties), the Côte des Blancs (Vertus and Voipreux in Chardonnay 1er Cru) and the Vallée de la Marne (Le Breuil and Boursault in Meunier).

This great diversity of soils in more than 75 parcels cultivated in 10 different villages enables us to create many different wines. Each detail has its importance and we try preserving all these particularities.

First of all, we have to plough the soil to extract the best from it. In springtime, our parcels are ploughed to make them healthier, and to trigger biological and physical mechanisms necessary to nurture the vines. During the fall season, the ploughing is deeper in order to eliminate the superficial roots so that vine can dip her roots into the chalky subsoil in order to assimilate the subtle nutriments.

Different factors contribute to enhance the grape’s quality: hand labour, limited yield, careful follow-up of the vineyard, ecological and natural phytosanitary protection…

Our oldest vines are, of course, well preserved. Some of them have been cultivated by different generation of the family, for more than 68 years. These old parcels reveal the purity of expression of each vintage. Their roots bring minerality to our wines, something extremely important for the delicacy and length on the palate of our wines.

This is the same old vines which are used for our “selections massales” in order to keep an excellent quality for the next plantations and to preserve the memory of these sublimes plants.

When the grapes have reached their maturity, they are picked up and pressed at our estate, situated in the village of Chavot, with two traditional presses of 4000 Kg each.

Our wines have been vinified in barrels for more than twenty five years: we own several foudres from our ancestors and we buy barrels, mostly from Burgundy, in the most renowned cooperages (François Frères, Radoux, Tonnellerie de Champagne, Seguin-Moreau, and Damy). Today, we are one of the few estates to vinify more than 70 % of our wines in barrels.



Since each of our parcels is unique, grapes are carefully vinified to reach the perfect alchemy ( in small inox thanks, foudres, or barrels). The same applies the malolactic fermentation, which is not necessarily carried out (depending on the year and the grape’s variety).

Our estate, which was founded in 1889, is tradition-bound, but we are also trying to modernize ourselves in order to obtain regularity and safety during the elaboration of our products, but we do not forget our origins. We even need to show and claim these differences, and leave the Terroir be into the wine. At our estate, we are able to separate the villages, the Crus, the varieties: one press of 4000 kg = 9 barrels. This is inevitably necessary for a right comprehension of a soil, for disclose the gustative quality of each cépage, each village, and each soil.

A wine from delimited vines, as we create at our estate, is the true identity of the vine: the Terroir is more important than the work of “assemblage” of the oenologist.

Les Clos : A unique and unobserved blend in Champagne : Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Fromenteau, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc and Arbanne. The last ones are the old Champenois varieties. This parcel, around our second Gîte, is growing with an ecological, dynamic and traditional growing. This natural and organic method is used progressively in our estate to facilitate the natural expression of the vine and increase his aromatic potential. We are working carefully the soil to preserve its balance, make the operations of pruning and natural treatments according to favourable days.

We already created a few years ago a Blanc de Blancs from a single parcel in the terroir of Voipreux 1er cru: La Pierre de la Justice was planted in 1961. The production is naturally limited and it brings an amazing concentration of flavours, body, richness, and a sublime finish of minerality.

After two years of try, we decided to create a Rosé de saignée with the harvest 2004: Les Beaudiers. We used a selection of old vines in the highest terroirs of Chavot – plots planted in 1953, 1958, and 1965. Clay and silty soils, not very deep, with a little of flints and little stones. Chalky subsoil.

Only the ripest grapes are selected, in order to obtain during the maceration a great extraction of these complex flavours. The first’s tasting reveals a true wine with great character.

An other wines from Pinot Meunier was also created for the first time with the sublime harvest 2004: Les Vignes d’ Autrefois. This comes from a selection of old parcels (between 42 to 60 years old). Naturally vinified in barrels, the wine reveals all the fruitiness of Meunier and an outstanding minerality