Matthias caught the wine bug back in 1977 when he tasted a 1975 Trotanoy. At that time, great wines weren't in demand at all. You didn't have to be rich to buy a Petrus or a Romanee Conti. Even today, we still have some very special bottles in our cellar. Matthias has worked with winemakers such as Lalou-Bize Leroy, Jacques Rousseau, Anne-Claude Leflaive, Hubert Lignier, De Vogue, Sauzet, and Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier. He spends a lot of time in winemakers' cellars and prefers buying wine to selling it, so our already vast cellar is overcrowded.

The prices for such wines then rose dramatically. We don't enjoy working with speculative wines that are so expensive that they're no longer being consumed. We could hardly taste these wines ourselves.

Today, we're less of a business and more of a pursuit of our passion, which connects us with ordinary people. Almost ordinary, but not quite so, because we're wine-mad and spend far more on wine than common sense allows. We can't function without our online shop these days, but friendships have already been formed through it. We look forward to seeing you! It would be easy to say, "We're always here for you," but I'd rather say we're making every effort. But can you really call it "effort" when you're pursuing your dream job?

Champagne is my passion. It accompanies me in so many different moments. A glass at the end of a strenuous day with a good book. A crystal-clear Blanc de Blancs on an evening in a hut overlooking the glacier. Or we cook with friends and enjoy champagne, which can accompany an entire meal. Champagne is also part of the festive season. I'm particularly fascinated by following the long evolution of champagne into increasingly complex flavors: like this one at Christmas a few years ago. The bottle on the right is from the 1970s, the one on the left is a cuvée from vintages from the late 1990s.