Champagne Philipponnat

The Philipponnat family, originally from Fribourg in Switzerland, settled in Aÿ in 1522.
It is thanks to the ancestor April de Philipponnat, former soldier of King Francis I of France that following the battle of Marignan, the king granted him lands in Aÿ.
The red and gold checkered coat of arms, which is still the emblem of the Maison Philipponnat , was registered on 28 July 1697.
The Philipponnat therefore devoted themselves under the Second Empire to the creation of Champagne wine. The different generations of this family succeed each other on the lands of Aÿ since, and acquire at the beginning of the twentieth century cellars dug in the eighteenth century in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, and properties, previously of the house Albert Vallet.
SA Champagne Philipponnat was founded in 1912.

Philipponnat is expressed in the principle of solera under wood. A tradition of the House since always, it consists of keeping reserve wines in oak barrels and reintroducing them into the blend of non-vintages in the proportion of a quarter to a third, then using this same blend as the reserve wine of the next blend. In this way, a progressive dilution makes it possible to keep track of the vintages assembled from the beginning in each bottle. Successive cellar masters have applied themselves to pass on this know-how.
Philipponnat was the first House to specify on its back labels the dominant "base" year used in the composition of its non-vintage wines, the dosage and the date of disgorging, thus communicating to its prescribers and consumers the identity of each cuvée.