Our Champagne Winemakers

We exclusively import Grower Champagne. Simply put, these are wines produced 100% from vineyards that are owned by the producer. It may surprise you to learn that over 88% of Champagne is what is known as négociant – meaning that the wines are made with grapes purchased from dozens to hundreds of different growers from throughout the region.

The big names that you are likely familiar with – Moët et Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Mumm, Roederer, etc. – those are négociants. They produce millions of cases of wine, in an industrial fashion, from fruit grown mostly not by themselves, but by thousands of smaller growers across the 319 villages that make up the Champagne viticultural region.

Grower Champagnes, on the other hand, are made by small producers that grow their own grapes and make wines exclusively from their own vineyards. The typical Grower Champagne producer might have less than 5 hectares of vines makes fewer than 40,000 bottles per year. There are nearly 5,000 of these small grower-producers in Champagne from among nearly 19,000 growers. And incredibly, fewer than 250 of them are available here in the U.S.!

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