In 1981, entrepreneurial twenty-seven year-old Bruno Paillard sold his beloved Jaguar and started a Champagne House; the first in nearly a century. After two decades of unprecedented business development and engineering invention, he was quickly accepted as one of the best producers in the region. Now the proprietor to thirty-two hectares of land that cover the best Crus of Champagne, the Maison receives grapes from over forty carefully selected plots to blend into their cuvées.
The reserve wines at Bruno Paillard are kept in tanks and small oak barrels and the House uniquely uses a rare technique in Champagne: blending the reserve wines a year prior to assemblage. The multi-vintages mature in the cellars for an average of three years and the single vintage wines for between eight and twelve years. Since his first vintage in 1983, Bruno has displayed disgorgement dates on the back label so that wine-lovers can track the development of their champagne - a pioneering trend that other producers are only just beginning to replicate. Still a family-run operation, Bruno regularly tastes some 500 barrels and 110 cuvées in the ultra-modern Reims-based winery, alongside daughter Alice Paillard and Cellar Master Laurent Guyot.
Cellar Master:
Bruno Paillard
Winery Location: Reims | Champagne, France
Champagne Region:
Montagne de Reims
Annual Production (bottles): 500,000