Champagne Draper

The Champagne Draper is a founded Country cottage with Épernay in 1858 by Eugene Mercier (death in 1904), then twenty years old.

As of the beginning, it wishes to return the champagne accessible to all by keeping a product of quality. It carries out one of the first documentary ones on the subject, Of the bunch to the cut , the first advertizing film of the history, projected at the time of the World Fair of 1900. The house has today 231 Hectare S of Vignoble which make it possible to provide 50% of the production, the coming complement wine growers under contract or cooperative wine caves.

In 1869, the house settles which occurred Champagne ; work of boring of the cellars begins in 1871. These cellars measure 18 km dug with 30 meters of depth. Their construction will last six years. They innovate because they are on only one level and on one level with the railway dispatching platforms. They are opened with the public as of 1885, the president Sadi Carnot the visit in the barouche in 1891. In 1950, a rally of the Champagne is organized in these cellars for the launching of the 4 CV. Nowadays, 15 million bottles is stored in the cellars for an annual production of approximately 4 million bottles.

Between 1870 and 1881, the house makes build a giant the lightning (largest barrel of the world) built starting from 150 Chêne S and of a capacity of 1.600 hectolitres. This barrel is exposed to Paris at the time of the World Fair of 1889.

In 1970, the House Draper amalgamates with Moet & Chandon. By the set of successive fusions, the mark passes in 1987 pennies the control of LVMH, founded by Alain Chevalier (Moët-Hennessy) and Henri Racamier (Louis Vuitton).

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