Ruinart

Champagne Ruinart is a Country cottage created on September 1st 1729 with Rheims by Nicolas Ruinart, the nephew of the monk Benedictine Dom Thierry Ruinart who wanted to make Maison Ruinart the first country cottage. It is the oldest country cottage still in activity.

History

Dom Ruinart, resulting from a Champagne middle-class family practitioner then the trade of the Cloth, quickly includes/understands the future stakes of the production of champagne and its trade at the time of its voyages in Europe. He notices the growing enthusiasm which causes the Wine from champagne in the aristocratic spheres of the Courses Royal. He transmits his knowledge and his vision of the trade of champagne to his brother Nicolas Ruinart. Dom Ruinart, guesses already the future notoriety of the wine from champagne and its business success.

But it will be necessary to await the royal Arrêté of the May 25th 1728 so that the dream can become reality. By this decree, the king authorizes the transport of the wine in bottles, whereas before this date the wine could travel only out of barrels, impossible thing for the wine from champagne. Strongly inspired by his uncle, the daring son of Nicolas Ruinart, Nicolas Ruinart second of the name, then pose the bases of the first Country cottage.

Its first wine from champagne sendings will be intended for its customers purchasing of cloths, which one could today regard as gifts of businesses. Like his uncle twenty years before, he realizes quickly which the market of the wine would be much more profitable than that of cloth. In the ports, on the boats, the baskets of wine from champagne bottles very quickly replace the balls and the rollers of fabrics. So that in 1735, the sale of champagne becomes the single activity of the Ruinart House.

Today this mark belongs to the group LVMH.

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