Producers: Pierre Péters

The Peters family has been growing wine in Champagne for over 100 years. In the fourth generation, Rodolphe Peters has led the domaine, which today covers almost 19 hectares, to the top of the Côte des Blancs over the past ten years. His vintner champagnes, sought after worldwide and highly praised by critics, are currently among the hottest things the chalk floors of the Grands Crus around Mesnil-Sur-Oger, Oger, Avize and Cramant have to offer. One of the many peculiarities of this domain is that the vines, despite their old age, consist almost exclusively of Selection Massales and not of clones. In the heart of the white Grands Crus Villages, sparkling wines are crafted by hand, which are always characterized by elegance, finesse, mineral expression and clarity. After the extremely slow pressing that is characteristic of him, Peters therefore consistently expands a large part of his base wines in steel in order to maintain the maximum straightness and precision of the Chardonnays.

Since 1988 the Domaine has cultivated a valuable base of reserve wines, the selective addition of which is the basis for the high complexity and independence of Peters champagnes year after year. In Les Chétillons - one of the most legendary individual vineyards of Le Mesnil - Peters has three excellent plots with very old vines (partly planted in 1936). Each year they are vinified separately in barrels, fuders and steel tanks, and then assembled into the best possible cuvée. With its breathtaking precision and mineral expression, Les Chétillons is always a perfect reflection of the respective vintage from this enormously chalky prime location. Rodolphe Peters' experimental knack for blending, as well as the ultra-meticulous craftsmanship in the vineyard make him one of the most ingenious winemakers of the Côtes des Blancs and a current superstar of Champagne.