Champagne Cuvée Renaissance Premier Cru

Champagne Vadin-Plateau

Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Champagne

Variety

Pinot Meunier

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Viticulture

Vineyard name

From 7 different parcels, including: Terre des Moines, Nordfontaine, and Les Républiques

Soil type

Sand-Silt soils, South-East Exposition

Vines planted in1979 (approx. / on average)

Vinification

No malolactic fermentation, sulfured at press (and limit of sulfur thereafter). Wines are kept at 5°-6° to block malolactic fermentation.

Additional info

Total production average30,000 bottles

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More about
the producer

Champagne Vadin-Plateau

Founded in 1785, Yann Vadin since in 2012 (9th generation)

7 hectares

Yann Vadin is the 9th generation to grow grapes on his family’s seven hectares of vineyards. centered around the terroirs of five neighboring villages: Ay, Damery, Champillon, Hautvillers, and the family’s hometown Cumières, where the winery is located. Yann always envisioned taking over the family domaine. After training in the lycée viticole in Avize, and obtaining work experience in Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Australia, he returned to the domaine in 2012.

Immediately, he began the conversion to organic viticulture, encouraged by a father who had stopped using herbicides twenty years prior, and who also had the good sense to allow his son free reign in the winemaking process from his first harvest. Yann crafts wines that are both typical of Champagne and highly personal. H...