It all began in the 19th century...My family have been growing grapes for wine in the Champagne region since 1860.
In those days, the wine growers sold all of their grapes to trading houses each year at harvest time. (Möet et Chandon, Pomery, Roederer, etc.) These companies, the sole suppliers of Champagne throughout the world, owned very few vineyards themselves (in fact this is still the case), and they were obliged to turn to small win...
Champagne is produced, harvested and blended exclusively in the French Champagne region, so defined by its specific soil and subsoil. The Champagne AOC (Appellation d'Origine Contôlée) covers 33,000 hectares planted across 320 villages.
The specific circumstances of each village (soil, subsoil, microclimate, exposure) led to the development, at the beginning of the last century (1911), of a scale of vintages. A percentage between 80 and 10...
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