By Isabelle Brigout on Sunday 21 September 2025, 15:32 - Organic food
Telmont, founded in 1912 by Henri Lhôpital, is a family house of champagne in which Bertrand Lhôpital, cellar and winegrowing master, represents the fourth generation. From 2021, it received the bio certification for 72 % of its wine estate. Its cuvée Réserve de la terre, is elaborated solely from organically-grown grapes, herbicide, synthetic pesticides, fungicides and chemical fertilisers free.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 3 February 2022, 06:02 - Concierge
For its 250th birthday, Veuve Clicquot offers a journey from Reims in France to Venice in Italy on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express including a Champagne dinner onboard, as La Serenissima was the first destination where bottles were exported abroad in 1772.
By Isabelle Brigout on Wednesday 29 December 2021, 06:52 - Organic food
The De Sousa champagne is organic and biodynamic certified. The brand has put online videos describing the manufacturing process of its champagne in sign language and will offer guided visits of its cellars also in sign language.
By Isabelle Brigout on Monday 13 December 2021, 06:11 - Organic food
For the festive season, Ruinart offers twenty magnum bottles of Champagne in a limited and numbered edition, whose second skin packagings have been sculpted by the artist Antonin Anzil. Each piece depicts a part of the historic vineyard that has just been converted to agroforestry.
By Isabelle Brigout on Thursday 2 December 2021, 05:39 - Around sustainable luxury
Moët & Chandon is committed to creating 100 km (62 miles) of ecological corridors in the Champagne region by 2027 to diversify natural ecosystems and protect fauna and flora: named Natura Nostra, the project started in 2021.
By Isabelle Brigout on Friday 15 October 2021, 09:16 - Concierge
From 16 to 31st October 2021 during the FIAC, Ruinart opens an ephemeral restaurant in the Maison 1729 a stone's throw from the Champ de Mars in Paris. Responsible haute-cuisine by Michelin starred and committed chefs on the menu, workshops and lectures on the programme.
By Isabelle Brigout on Wednesday 9 June 2021, 09:33 - Organic food
Reforest'Action and the Maison Ruinart have initiated an agroforestry programme where trees and shrubs will be planted in the middle of the vineyards : green islands and bushes will enrich biodiversity by providing habitat for beneficial fauna for grape.
