Champagne Ruinart

Founded in 1729, Ruinart is one of the oldest Champagne Houses. Before Ruinart, there were none. At its origin, there was the intuition of a monk who was ahead of his time…
The Chardonnay grape is the signature of Maison Ruinart. Its grapes, mainly from the Côte des Blancs and the Montagne de Reims, are at the heart of all its cuvées.
Exploring the chalk cellars of Maison Ruinart means discovering its history and experiencing its ancestral know-how. A unique immersion in the beating heart of Champagne, because it is in the depths of its terroir that the most emblematic of sparkling wines is born and aged.

The Ruinart family had the intuition that the chalk cellars, ancient quarries of white chalk, are capable of providing optimal conditions for the aging of its wines.
Dug into the limestone subsoil of the capital of Champagne, nearly 40 meters deep, the twenty chalk cellars of Maison Ruinart extend over two levels and 8 kilometers. These chalk cathedrals, still in use, are the only ones in the city of Reims to be both listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites and classified as historic sites.