Founded in 1851 by Etienne Bouvet, Bouvet-Ladubay is the second oldest sparkling wine–producing house in Saumur. By 1890, it had become France's largest producer of méthode traditionnelle wines. Very few of Etienne Bouvet's contemporaries would unite so much talent and energy dedicated to the refinement and prestige of their industry. Bouvet erected immense buildings to house his production; he installed an electric plant to illuminate his und...
The Saumur region is located in the central Loire Valley, southeast of the city of Angers. The region is famed for sparkling wine production, its defining characteristics being the tuffeau caves where wines mature at constant temperature, and the chalky soil in which the vines grow. The cool climate is ideal for the production of the high-acidity base wines required for sparkling wines.
Sparkling Saumur, like many Champagnes, is a wine of the blender's art. Bouvet-Ladubay does not own vineyards, but is affiliated with 100 growers who are under technically precise supply contracts to Bouvet for the purchase of grapes. Rather than purchasing base wines from growers, as is often done, Patrice Monmousseau purchases only grapes for Bouvet's vinification to ensure control over each stage of production, from fermentation through fin...
One of the remarkable characteristics of the Saumur region is its tuffeau caves, carved into the chalk hillsides, in which wines have historically been aged and in which some residents of the area have made their homes. Bouvet-Ladubay’s own cellars lie in such a cave, excavated 1,000 years ago by the Saint Florent monks, who quarried the chalk stone to build their abbey, La Belle d’Anjou, consecrated in 1040 and at its greatest influence in th...
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