La Champagne au Cœur CHAMPAGNE EN EL CORAZÓN
EL LEMA DE LA CASA ES "LA CHAMPAGNE AU COEUR" O "CHAMPAGNE EN EL CORAZÓN". ESTA DECLARACIÓN EXPRESA LA VOLUNTAD APASIONADA DE LOS HOMBRES Y MUJERES DE LA MAISON DE DAR LO MEJOR DE SÍ MISMOS Y EXPRESAR LO MEJOR DE SU TIERRA, Y TAMBIÉN DESCRIBE UNA UBICACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA MILENARIA, QUE NO DEJA DE INFLUIR EN EL ESTILO DE SUS VINOS.
A TRADITION SINCE 1522
The Philipponnat family has been living in the Champagne region since the early 16th century. They are one of the original families of winegrowers and wine merchants in the area. They may even have been the first to practice these activities, but this cannot be proven.
According to Hozier's Armorial (1696), Apvril Le Philipponnat, captain of the Swiss canton of Basel, was the first person to live in the middle of the vineyard area. In the will of a certain Dom Jean Royer, the last regular abbot of the Abbey of Hautvillers, two centuries before Dom Pérignon, Apvril Le Philipponnat was cited as a landowner in Le Léon, between Ay and Dizy in 1522. The Philipponnat family still owns these Le Léon vineyards to this day.
Apvril Le Philipponnat married Marie d'Ambonnay in 1550 and died in Ay in 1580. Apvril and Marie are the ancestors of all the Philipponnats in Ay, and therefore, in a way, of Champagne itself. The Champagne House has named its new cuvée de prestige “Cuvée 1522” in homage to Apvril Le Philipponnat.
500 YEARS PARTICIPATING IN THE DAILY LIFE OF AY AND MAREUIL-SUR-AY
The ancestors of the Philipponnat family pursued their commercial activity (buying vineyards, making and selling wine, etc.) for five centuries while also holding
