Winery Champagne Guenin

The Guenin family has been established in Essoyes for generations: online sources record family roots spanning several generations, and the first modern vineyards were planted beginning in 1952. Following changes within the family and the installation of the first press in 1987, Sébastien Guenin returned to run the family business and began bottling his own cuvées from 2015.

Production focused on respect for the terroir: vineyards converted to organic farming, controlled yields and winemaking aimed at natural expression. The reported practices include fermentations and, for some cuvées, maturation in wood, aiming for precise, mineral expressions of the terroir.

Essoyes, in the heart of the Côte des Bar. The soils mentioned in the product sheets and descriptions are mainly clay-limestone, with a strong presence of Pinot Noir in the vineyards situated on the local slopes.

The cuvée "Erubescence" was awarded one star in the Guide Hachette des Vins.