Champagne Philipponnat

The Philipponnat family, originally from Fribourg in Switzerland, settled in Aÿ in 1522.
Thanks to the ancestor April de Philipponnat, a former soldier of King François I of France, the king granted him lands in Aÿ following the Battle of Marignan.
The red and gold checkerboard coat of arms, which is still the emblem of the Philipponnat House, was registered on July 28, 1697.
During the Second Empire, the Philipponnat family therefore devoted themselves to creating Champagne wine. The different generations of this family have succeeded each other on the lands of Aÿ since then, and in the early 20th century acquired cellars dug in the 18th century in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, and properties previously owned by the Albert Vallet house.
The company Champagne Philipponnat SA was founded in 1912.

Philipponnat uses the solera principle in wood. A tradition of the House since always, it consists of conserving reserve wines in oak barrels and reintroducing them in the blend of non-vintage wines in a proportion of one-quarter to one-third, then using this same blend as the reserve wine for the next blend. In this way, a progressive dilution allows to keep in each bottle the trace of the vintages blended since the beginning. The successive Cellar Masters have strived to pass on this know-how.
Philipponnat was the first House to specify on its back labels the dominant "base" year used in the composition of its non-vintage wines, the dosage, and the disgorgement date, thus providing its advocates and consumers with the identity of each cuvée.