Champagne
Brice
Bouzy
After the Second World War, René Brice takes over the domain. He modernizes it and replants the entire vineyard. He enlarged the family cellars and launched the first vintages with the name of the brand: Champagne Brice.
In 1964, Jean-Paul Brice took over the family domain and developed the vineyard.
In 2004, Remi and Jean-René Brice joined the team of the Champagne Brice house. They bought cellars dug in the 19th century in the heart of Bouzy. They also built a pressing room.
Since 2018, the vinifications are directed by Christophe Constant, Oenologist Champenois, who practices for more than 20 years in the region. Fermentations are carried out in stainless steel tanks but also in 228 L and 350 L barrels. Since 2019, parcel-based vintages are bottled, such as “le Mont des Tours” or “Le Poteau”. The disgorging is practiced by themselves of their wines that they dose between 3 gr and 6 gr of sugar per liter, at the limit of the Brut and the Extra Brut, to keep an intense fruity flavor as well as a great finesse.
Casanova
Mardeuil
After her professional international artistic career during which Aurore danced on the stages of Bangkok, San-Francisco and Zurich opera, she decided to leave and join the family estate, planted in 1968 by her mother in the mountain of Reims.
Aurore and Jean-Baptiste, her husband, did their studies at the wine school of Avize. Then, the field “Aurore Casanova” was born. They decide to adopt a respectful philosophy of the human and the environment to offer generous champagnes, sharing and gastronomy. The domain is undergoing organic certification. The assembly of Reims with the confidential soil of Puisieulx, the coast of the whites with the splendid soil of Mesnil-sur-Oger, the valley of the Marne with the marly soil of Champvoisy, and finally the capital with Epernay for a total surface of 3,5ha. The traditional vinification of intervention for Aurore and Jean-Baptiste grants the wines gluttony, freshness and character.
The collection combines the diversity of the expressions of certain personalities of the earth. And more particularly the soils of Puisieulx and Mesnil-sur-Oger underlined by a natural and spontaneous vinification. Distinguished champagnes, fine and spiritual.
Heucq
Cuisles
Champagne growers are above of all history of women and men…For champagne Heucq, we are in the 4th generation named : Artisan Vigneron.
2017- Fanny, Alexandre & Dorothée Heucq. They seek above all to express the quality of their terroirs. They use the native grape, Pinot Meunier, and limit the production by using only the best of the vintages. Finally, due to a powerful production tool, vinification makes it possible to obtain a champagne with a great purity.
Domaine de Marzilly, Champagne Ullens
Herminville
Domaine de Marzilly, nestled in the Massif de Saint-Thierry near Hermonville, is an independent, family-run wine domain founded in 2012 by Maxime Ullens. Originally from Belgium and trained in architecture, Maxime discovered the ruins of the Château de Marzilly, a historic 12th-century building surrounded by 32 hectares of parkland and forest. This discovery prompted him to restore the château, but above all to rediscover a plot of vines spared by the phylloxera crisis. Passionate about viticulture, Maxime returned to studies at the Avize wine-growing college to obtain his agricultural certificate. With the help of his wife Anna, he developed Domaine de Marzilly over four hectares, focusing on the Meunier grape variety, which he cultivates on the sandy soil of Hermonville. In 2020, the domain launched its first cuvée under the Champagne Ullens brand, a non-vintage brut made with a blend of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. This cuvée reflects Anna & Maxime's passion and respect for the Champagne terroir. The LPM cuvée from Domaine de Marzilly was born in vineyards located in the Massif de St-Thierry, formerly called "La Petite Montagne de Reims". This cuvée is composed exclusively of Pinot Meunier pressed in a traditional Coquard press. Fermentation is followed by aging in oak barrels for 11 months. The Champagne ages in the bottle on its lees for 18 months and is not filtered.
Pertois-Moriset
Mesnil-sur-Oger
Family business and thus independent. Grower-producers : each new generation has been nourished through the tradition and the knowledge of the vine and the wine of those who came before. Domain is managed by Cécile and her husband, Vincent. Their vineyards measure 20.7 hectares. Organic as ethics, certification in progress...
Respectful to the environment. If the weather and yearly conditions permit it, the exploitation is worked in an organic and sustainable manner, and no chemicals are used. Most of the vineyards are planted with grass, which helps with irrigation and adds nutrients to the soil. The soil is also worked through natural methods. The tractor used by Pertois-Moriset is also 100% electric which is a first out of all of the other grower-producers in Champagne.
Franck Bonville
Avize
For 4 generations, the Bonville family has been making wines in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, in Avize. Today, the vineyard covers 15 hectares in the communes of Avize, Oger and Mesnil sur Oger. Olivier, the son who inherited the estate, works 77 parcels! His son-in-law Ferdinand Ruelle-Dudel continues the tradition and both of them write the new pages of the family adventure and shape the emblematic cuvées of the Blanc de Blancs of their different terroirs.
Only the Chardonnay grape variety has been preserved and is the real driving force behind the Bonville style. Shaping
Champagne wines, Grand Cru - Blanc de Blancs, capable of carrying energy and emotion: these are the main guidelines of Champagne Franck Bonville. Maturing, in the warmth of their century-old chalky cellars, the chalk binds to their creative initiatives of the definition of their terroirs and offers this singularity to their wines.
Louise Brison
Noé-les-Mallets
The history of Maison Louise Brison is above all a family story, and has been for 4 generations. Today managed by Delphine Brulez. Her vineyard is located in the Côte des Bar on a Kimmeridgian soil composed of a clay-limestone bedrock containing an abundance of fossilized marine organisms. Her vines perfectly express Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Her hillsides benefit from an ideal exposure, South-Southeast at an altitude of 320 meters. This privileged position allows them to cultivate 13 hectares of AOC Champagne vines. After years of respectful cultivation practices, Maison Louise Brison began the conversion to organic viticulture in 2017 and obtained organic certification from the 2020 vintage ! Louise Brison champagnes are vintage cuvées in order to let each year express itself freely and offer its own color chart and emotions. These cuvées are vinified and aged in oak barrels, a living material that allows the development of aromatic complexity. Each cuvée asserts itself through its own style with a lot of freshness and a certain aromatic density.
Diane Jacquinet-Dumez
Les Mesneux et Écueil
Diane Jacquinet-Dumez, daughter and heiress of the 7 ha domain. She studied oenology in Avize and then worked as a winemaker in Reims and Dijon. In 2020, Diane took over the domain. Located on terroirs classified as 1er crus : Sacy, Les Mesneux and Écueil. Stopped using chemicals in 1985.
HVE certification confirmed, then commitment to organic farming. Use of a service provider for: binding and trellising. Classic 4000 kg Bucher press. Gentle launch, slow decantation by gravity. Under-pressing after AF, no fining or filtration. Malo done.
Cold filtration. 50% of the wines are aged in stainless steel vats and the remaining 50% in wood; demi-muids or tuns. Diane only keeps the juice of the premier cru grapes. The rest is sold to the trade. Here the grape varieties are Pinots: Meunier and Noir. Diane is extremely
careful about the selection of these woods for her barrels. In her work, she is supported by her partner, Geoffrey.
Aurélien Clément
Congy
At the age of 29, Aurélien took over the family farm in 2016 and represents the 4th generation of Harvester-Handler in the family. Located in Congy in the Coteaux du Petit Morin. Fascinated by tasting at first and foremost by champagnes and his different terroirs.
Vineyard of 5.5 Ha located in Congy, Coizard and les Riceys (1Ha). Most of the vines are old (over 40 years old), guaranteeing a good root system in the clay soils of the upper Campanien and a chalky subsoil. It cultivates the 3 grape varieties historical Champagne. Aurélien’s great-grandfather passed on his knowledge directly to his uncle and then his uncle gave it back to him. The result is a large collection of tools, reserve wines...and a know-how handed down from hand to hand in a spirit of tradition. They carry out everything themselves from planting to marketing. First step : 2017 vintage.