History
In the ownership of the same family since 1834, the Domaine Chandon de Briailles currently belongs to the Count and Countess Aymard-Claude de Nicolay and their children. The Count inherited it from his grandmother, Countess Chandon de Briailles, herself related to the famous champagne house of Moët et Chandon.
Situated four kilometres north of Beaune in Côte d'Or, the domain is in the northern area of the Côte de Beaune in the famous Burgundian vineyard. Its surface extends over 13.7 hectares (34 acres) shared equally amongst the three villages of Savigny-lès-Beaune, Pernand-Vergelesses and Aloxe-Corton. The Domain produces on average 50,000 bottles per year, of which 60% are exported. Its main markets are Great Britain, United States, Japan, Benelux, Korea, Quebec, Italy, Norway and Australia.
In the family since 1834, the Domaine Chandon de Briailles was taken up in 1982 in the expert hands of Nadine de Nicolay. Through relentless hard work she managed to revive, to general agreement, the letters of nobility of the wines of the estate. Today, her children, Claude and François de Nicolay, manage the estate together. Coming from very different professional backgrounds, they share the same passion: vine and wine. Both have received a strong "transmission" of inheritance and savoir-faire on the lands of their mother. In charge of the Domain since 2001, their complementarity is a major asset.