The first records of the Bara family date from the 1600s, in the villages of Bisseuil, Oiry and Chouilly, near Epernay. In 1833, Auguste François Bara, a robust, full-spirited young man, arrived in Bouzy to begin work as a cooper. Three years later, in 1836, he married Annonciade Robert, who was already the owner of some vines. Since then the House of Bara has been handed down among generations for more than 180 years. While maintaining family...
The Paul Bara vineyards are in Bouzy, a highly renowned winegrowing area in the heart of the famous 'Montagne de Reims'. All 33 Bara vineyard parcels have Grand Cru status. There are 11 hectares of vines in total, including 9.5 hectares of Pinot Noir and 1.5 hectares of Chardonnay, all of which are managed with great care and rigour. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are noble grape varieties and here they produce remarkably aromatic, full-bodied and ...
Every step of the winemaking process is performed with absolute rigour, and every effort is made to allow the wines to reveal the best of themselves. During harvest, the grapes are picked by hand with the utmost care. They are then pressed using two 4,000 kg presses; one is a traditional wooden one with a horizontal plate, where the edges of the 'press cake' must be brought back to the centre of the press manually using a fork, and, the other,...
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