The traces of the wine growers in our family go back to 1490, with Nicolas Taillet, and Fiacre Taillet in 1540. By 1700, a second Fiacre Taillet, an erudite wine grower, was writing his memoirs recounting his lifework, as well as all the important events of the village, the family and his profession. The Chartogne-Taillet family continues this tradition of writing and savoir-faire inherited from this legacy of wine growing.
Every gesture is guided by a request from the plants, the vines and our environment.
Our work is guided by our observations and our senses. Every gesture is guided by a request from the plants, the vines and our environment. We have returned to the savoir-faire of wine growers from times long gone by, when man could not do harm by using products or machines. We work by hand, or with the help of our horses in the fields.
Understanding, by way of the saltiness, the textures, the lengths and the tastes, that wine's origins, from which soil and subsoil the vine has drawn its strength and its knowledge. We are the guarantors of this knowledge, to be passed on from one generation to another, from one bottle to the next.
Tasting a wine is like immersing yourself, from afar, in the flavours of a particular place.
Today, our gestures are guided by this transmitted know-how, and we adapt the Benedictines' winemaking practices to the new effervescence of the Champagne region. Preserving the flavours of this place by creating a wine that will soon sparkle. There is no need for certification, except the one that will allow us to capture the flavours of our terroir in our bottles.
