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Maison de Champagne Bruno Paillard

Wine as creation
The Bruno Paillard House is a ‘boutique’, family-run and independent House, free since its creation in 1981 to pursue an ideal: to express the chalky, northern identity of Champagne in the purest, most personal and most faithful way. For the Paillard family, this is an aesthetic quest based on a vision of Champagne wines as creations: a meeting of Man and Nature. Through its wines, the House strives for excellence in order to make a renewed and lasting contribution to Champagne.The Bruno Paillard House is a ‘boutique’, family-run and independent House, free since its creation in 1981 to pursue an ideal: to express the chalky, northern identity of Champagne in the purest, most personal and most faithful way. For the Paillard family, this is an aesthetic quest based on a vision of Champagne wines as creations: a meeting of Man and Nature. Through its wines, the House strives for excellence in order to make a renewed and lasting contribution to Champagne.This ambition is based on very strong convictions, from which the House has never deviated: the exclusive use of the first presses, the significant contribution of reserve wines (up to 50% in the blends), extra-brut dosage, double maturation times before and after disgorging, the date of which is indicated on every bottle. Respect for the living world guides the management of the 25-hectare vineyard, which provides most of the supplies. The technical approach aims to develop biodiversity, the life of the soil and the deep roots of the vines, drawing on the chalky soils of the terroirs.True to its principles, the House is constantly on the move, making technical improvements and working on blends to get closer to its ideal Champagne. Each decision is a reflection, like a tribute to the Champagne of the pioneers who had to invent everything.The House of Bruno Paillard invites all connoisseurs, whether experienced or curious explorers, to enter into the intimacy of ‘its’ Champagne and discover a personal, sincere and creative interpretation.
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Art & Bruno Paillard

Extract from ‘Champagne in Art’ by Jean-Marie PinçonExtract from ‘Champagne in Art’ by Jean-Marie Pinçon

For Bruno Paillard, Art and Champagne are an obvious marriage. An indisputable alliance. Why? Champagne is first and foremost a blending wine: the winemaker can marry grape varieties together, as well as vintages and years, and all three together, in a multitude of combinations. Blending is, in itself, an artistic and creative process. There are exceptions to this rule of blending, such as vintage Champagnes, which are made from a single year, whether they are single-vineyard or blends of vintages from a variety of origins and grape varieties. Because of the nature of the climate, it is different from one year to the next. The winemaker may choose to erase these differences between vintages. On the other hand, he may prefer to emphasise these differences. For my part, I’ve chosen the second option: to emphasise the true characteristics of the year. The synthesis is there, it’s the rule and the exception’.

So, for him, Champagne is art on a daily basis. Painters also work on a daily basis. ‘Why not create a bridge between the two? Bruno Paillard wanted to personalise his vintages and express their nature on the bottle label. Not just with the regulatory information, considered a little austere, but with a graphic message. A message that can be understood by those in the know, but also subconsciously assimilated by everyone else. When the theme has been chosen after tasting the vintage, Bruno Paillard thinks about the artists who could translate the chosen theme graphically. He may be moved by the work or by the artist, or often by both.

The result is a unique in-house gallery of varied works, whose richness is nourished by its diversity.
In this way, painting by painting, the history of the great years in Champagne is written in this contemporary place imagined by an amateur who feels a sense of solidarity with the artists of his time.