About the Champagne on our list
Small-production Champagne from four family domaines — Grand Cru Verzy, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, and the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. Every producer farms their own vines, uses indigenous yeasts, and bottles at low or zero dosage.
Pierre Deville
Fourth generation in Grand Cru Verzy. Biodynamic, fully barrel-fermented, around 1,300 bottles per cuvée.
Antoine Bouvet
Five generations in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. Biodynamic farming, old oak, zero dosage. Order now and Available to ship the first week of December.
Hélène Charbaut
Fourth generation in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. Five single-variety cuvées — Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier from parcels planted between 1960 and 1999. Next allocation arriving spring 2027 — join the pre-arrival list.
Adrien Renoir
Fourth generation in Grand Cru Verzy, on the Montagne de Reims. His single-parcel wines — Les Vignes Goisses, Les Montants, and the Le Cépage Blanc de Noirs — come from chalk slopes that give Pinot Noir an unusually precise, mineral character.
Pascal Lejeune
Family domaine on the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. Among the first growers in Champagne to plant cover crops between rows. Next allocation arriving spring 2027.
The winemakers we work with in Champagne
Champagne Pierre Deville
Fourth-generation grower in Verzy Grand Cru, working five hectares of chalk soils on the Montagne de Reims. Biodynamic farming, hand harvesting, indigenous yeasts, old oak.
Champagne Hélène Charbaut
Fourth-generation grower in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Bisseuil, working a family cave that dates to 1937. All five cuvées are Premier Cru: four single-variety wines and a Pinot Noir-led blend.
Champagne Antoine Bouvet
Fifth-generation grower farming 5.5 hectares across Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. Biodynamic, old oak only, with some wines resting four or more years before release.
Champagne Pascal Lejeune
Family domaine on the south-facing slopes of the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. One of the first in Champagne to plant cover crops between vine rows.
Also available — Champagne magnums
The Amitié list includes magnums from Antoine Bouvet — Les Monts de la Vallée Blanc de Noirs and Les Monts de la Vallée Rosé, both 2022.
Antoine Bouvet available to ship the first week of December.
A small allocation, with some cuvées already gone. Order now and your wine ships as soon as it arrives.
The villages
Verzy — Montagne de Reims
Verzy is one of a handful of villages on the Montagne de Reims classified at Grand Cru level. Its chalk-rich slopes on the forested eastern edge of the mountain produce Pinot Noir of unusual restraint and mineral tension — more precise and more site-specific than the more famous Grand Cru villages of Aÿ and Ambonnay. Two of the producers on the Amitié Champagne list farm here.
Champagne Pierre Deville — fourth generation, biodynamic farming, every wine fermented and aged in old oak barrels. The most cellar-intensive Champagne on the list. 1,300 bottles per cuvée.
Adrien Renoir — fourth generation, 100% Grand Cru Verzy fruit, barrel-fermented, zero or low dosage.
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ — Vallée de la Marne
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ sits on the left bank of the Marne — a village classified at Premier Cru level, known primarily for Pinot Noir from chalky limestone soils. Antoine Bouvet and Hélène Charbaut both farm here, often alongside each other in the same parcels.
Antoine Bouvet — fifth generation, biodynamic farming, extended barrel ageing. Some wines rest in oak for four years before release. Three villages: Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. Sells out with every release.
Hélène Charbaut — fourth generation. Five cuvées, each a single grape variety, a single expression of terroir. Next allocation expected spring 2027.
Coteaux Sud d’Épernay
The Coteaux Sud d’Épernay covers the south-facing slopes of the left bank of the Marne — a distinct terroir from the Montagne de Reims and the Côte des Blancs, with a particular freshness and texture that reflects the clay, silt, and marl limestone soils. Meunier plays a more significant role here than in most of Champagne.
Champagne Pascal Lejeune — family domaine in Moussy. Among the first producers in Champagne to plant cover crops between vine rows. 4.4 hectares across three villages. HVE certified.