Vines at Ville-Dommange, Sacy and Trigny, planted at 8,000 vinestocks per hectare and worked between five and fifty-four years of age. Manual harvest, white vinification, stainless steel, and a minimum of fifteen months on laths.
Virginie Bergeronneau belongs to a new generation working a long lineage. Her ancestors arrived in Champagne in the sixteenth century as wine workers, passed through cooperage, became cooperators at the start of the twentieth century, and in the nineties her parents became independent winegrowers. Through that heritage she wants to show the presence of women in the winemaking profession across different eras.
She is also a beekeeper. Her hives sit in the family vineyards, where they serve as her measure of how stable the biodiversity of each plot really is. Her convictions led her to certify the farm in organic viticulture in 2023.
Her profile at the Champagnes Biologiques ›Two distinct terroirs
Part of the plots on the Montagne de Reims, on rather clay-limestone land; the rest on the Massif de Saint-Thierry, on rather sandy-silty land.
Hives in the vines
She keeps bees in the family vineyards and reads the stability of each plot’s biodiversity from them.
Meunier
Both sectorsRepresentative of the two terroirs, and all of Les Chauffours, from fifty-four-year-old vines.
Pinot Noir
Ville-Dommange & Sacy · 1er CruThirty per cent of Cuvée Jeanne, thirty of the rosé Léa.
Chardonnay
Ville-Dommange & Sacy · 1er CruAll of Cuvée Adèle, from twenty-five-year-old vines.
Four cuvées: three blends under a family name, and one single-plot Meunier.
Committed in 2020, first certified harvest in 2023. One hundred per cent of 2.24 hectares.
Jeanne, Léa and Adèle carry family names. Les Chauffours carries a plot.
Straw colour, ripe white fruits on the nose. Fruity, elegant, distinguished. A traditional Champagne of blending — of grape varieties, of vines and of years.
Salmon colour. Fruity — fresh strawberry and red berry. Vinous, fresh, with subtle notes of red fruit.
Golden-amber reflect with fine bubbles. Yellow fruit — quince. Round and fruity. An identity cuvée.
Golden reflect, fine bubbles. White fruit, citrus, toast and butter. Balanced and long in the mouth, revealing freshness, finesse and lightness.
