A Unique Terroir
A philosophy
Taking care
of the woman who feeds people
Our Champagne estate expresses itself through the specific geology of each of our plots, their topography, the nature of each vintage of course, but also through the hand of man.
We are fortunate to work one of the most beautiful parts of the village with our Mont Hurlet hillside at an altitude of 256 metres.
Its subsoil of chalk from the Cretaceous period and its south-facing aspect give our Chardonnays a liveliness and a unique iodine character.
‘We work our vines with good winegrowing sense’.
The rest of our vineyard is planted mainly with Pinot Noir, and we replant our new plots with selections massales identitaires.
In order to combat fungal diseases, we make every effort to implement prophylactic measures such as disbudding, careful trellising and early leaf thinning on the side facing the rising sun.
‘My greatest vintage is the one to come’.
In our vineyards, we always go back to what our ancestors used to do.
We've gone back to ploughing our vines, because in our chalky soils, the grass in spring and summer would cause too much competition with our vines.
The rest is written in cellars where the same wisdom is applied, where naturalness prevails without useless artifice.
Some of our wines are made in wood, so we're not looking for woody aromas. Wood is simply a tool to bring out the best in our terroirs. We protect our juices at harvest time, leave them alone and let the lees work on the reduction during maturation.
We are lucky enough to vinify our wines in several barrels from the Avenay Val d'Or national forest.
