Champagne Vilmart & Cie

This family home, located in Rilly-la-Montagne (Montagne de Reims) since 1890, is now managed by Laurent Champs. Trained at the estate by his father, René, this great traveler took over the 11ha of the estate at the age of 24, in 1995. He has a vision of diversity, a notion of difference and inherits an avant-garde spirit. His father was already making everything in lightning, ploughing and working the soil. Preserving an organic life and a terroir identity is in the family spirit. With in the spirit of making wines before making bubbles. Laurent likes to keep the vintage effect and looks for fine, elegant and precise champagnes. Malolactic fermentations are blocked to keep freshness and tension. The house style offers a demonstration of elegant classicism fruit of a long time of keeping in the cellar.