Ruinart (Champagne)

Champagne Ruinart is a champagne house in Reims. It was founded on September 1, 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart Irenee, the nephew of the Benedictine monk Dom Thierry Ruinart is the oldest Champagne house still active.

History of the House

Dom Ruinart came from a middle class family of cloth merchants from the Champagne region. During his trading journeys in Europe, he recognized the future potential for the production of champagne. He quickly realized the growing enthusiasm of the aristocratic courts, which was triggered by the champagne. This knowledge and his vision for the champagne he gave his brother Nicolas Ruinart. Dom Ruinart, already recognized early on the future level of awareness, importance and success of the Champagne wine.

But he had to wait on the Royal Decree of 25 May 1728 to make his dream a reality. With this decree, the king allowed the transport of wine in bottles. Before this time, the wine could not be transported in bottles, but only in barrels, which was unthinkable for Champagne wine.

The first shipments of champagne wine went to a cloth merchant, what today would be described as freebies. Like his uncle twenty years earlier, he quickly realized that the wine business was more lucrative than the cloth business. In the ports of the champagne baskets replace with bottles of wine on the ships very quickly the bales of cloth and the cloth rolls. Business was so good that in 1735 the sales of champagne was the only activity of the house Ruinart.

Today Ruinart belongs to the trade group LVMH.

  • Généalogie des familles et Ruinart Ruinart de Brimont
  • Reims
  • Vineyard in France
  • Sparkling wine producers
  • Companies (Champagne -Ardenne )
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