Piper-Heidsieck
Piper -Heidsieck is a Champagne producer based in Reims; Rémy Cointreau group he belonged to.
History
Christian Heidsieck, a nephew of the founder of the dynasty Florence Champagne - Louis Heidsieck, while younger brother of Charles -Henri Heidsieck, the Florence -Ludwig in 1805 up in his company, was admitted to the champagne house Heidsieck until 1808.
1834 opened his own Christian Heidsieck champagne house, but died the following year, totally unexpected. His wife runs the champagne house Veuve under the name Heidsieck until they 1837 her brother Henri -Guillaume Piper, who was a relative of the founder Florens -Louis Heidsieck Patron married.
The house Piper-Heidsieck had a very successful representative in America, the very goal for the brand there in Jean -Claude Kunkelmann. After his return to Reims, invested Jean -Claude Kunkelmann a portion of its assets in the champagne house. When Henri Piper died in 1870, he inherited the company, which is now Kunkelmann jr. called it. Jean -Claude Kunkelmann inherited the company in 1881 his son Ferdinand Kunkel man whose daughter Jean Marquis de Suarez d' Aulan married. Kunkelmann jr. became the k.u.k. Appointed purveyor to the court.
The Marquise and Marquis de Suarez d' Aulan initiated the inherited champagne house together and called it again Piper -Heidsieck. 1944 was the Marquis in World War II. One of their children, the son of Francois d' Aulan later headed, the house, while the widow later married General d' Alès. Of the other three children Ghislaine, Philippe and Chatherine particularly Chatherine is known, but she married Claude Taittinger champagne house Taittinger chief of.
1989 Piper -Heidsieck was taken over by the second largest French wine and spirits group Remy Cointreau, which had in 1985 also already bought the Charles Heidsieck brand. In March 2011, Rémy Cointreau both brands for 410 million euros announced to the holding of EPI Descours family want to sell. The proposed transaction includes 50 acres of vineyards.
Literature and sources
Ingrid Haslinger: customer - Kaiser. The history of the former imperial court supplier. Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85202-129-4.