The Laherte estate was founded in 1889 by Jean-Baptiste Laherte. At this time, most of the vines were situated in a village known as Chavost. The fourth generation, that of Michel Laherte, expanded the family estate which was then covering about 5 hectares. He got married to Cécile Tissier whose family was living in Courcourt. Born into an 8-child-family, Cécile quickly got used to working in the vineyard and managed to combine her work as a d...
The Champagne area stretches over just about 34,000 hectares. Located 150 kilometers east from Paris, France, the highly parceled out Champagne region offers 319 vintages. The vineyard is situated in one of the most northern wine-growing region. The weather is particularly harsh, as the average annual temperature does not exceed 10° C. The subsoil plays a key role in the quality of the wines in Champagne with its patchwork of micro-soils and, ...
It all begins with the vine. Through regular plowing, our wonderful Terroirs express themselves up into the wine tasting glass. Spring plowing makes the soils loose and well-aired and trigger biological and physical mechanisms necessary to nurture the vine stocks. Fall plowing goes deeper and pulls out surface roots so that the vine roots sink further into the chalky parent rock.
Of course, we keep our old vines and some of them already und...
Wine must taste like grapes. When the maturity reaches its phenolic optimum, we press the grapes directly at our estate, right in the middle of the village of Chavot, with two 4,000-kilo traditional presses. One press would have been enough, but we insist on pressing our grapes right after they have been picked: we are waiting for the grapes, the grapes are not waiting for us. Must settling sessions are shorter and may not be carried out somet...
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