The Brisson-Lahaye house is located at the crossroads of the Champagne vineyards, in Tours-sur-Marne, one of the 17 villages classified Grand Cru de la Champagne. This former livestock farm has gradually made way for wine-growing, thanks to the ambition of a visionary family that has been able to shape its future by drawing on its resources and its roots.
Eliane Brisson, daughter of Pierre and Germaine Brisson, farmers and stockbreeders in Tours sur Marne, married Joël Lahaye in 1981, son of winegrowers in the Champagne wine region of the Coteaux Sud d'Epernay. After the birth of their children, Eliane and Joël joined Pierre and Germaine on the family farm which already had a few plots of vines. From then on, they bought other plots of vines in the surrounding villages and made their Champagnes in partnership with a Cooperative: Champagne Brisson-Lahaye was born.
In 1994, after Pierre and Germaine retired, Joël and Eliane devoted themselves solely to wine-growing. They then freed themselves from the Cooperative to become Harvester-Manipulants and immediately refurbished the whole house to allow all the stages of the wine making on the spot.
Their daughter, Laure, joined the farm in 2004 after obtaining a BTS in viticulture and oenology. Their son Guillaume chose a different career path. Since then, the family has devoted itself to the elaboration of a varied range of Champagne, thanks to their know-how and to the geological diversity and grape varieties of the terroirs.
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