Elise Dechannes
Purity in the Glass – The Finale of a Biodynamic Pioneer
The wines
100% Pinot Noir | Mono Parcellaire | jarre de grès | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €126.67 / 1 l
100% Pinot Noir | Mono Parcellaire | jarre de terre | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €118.67 / 1 l
70% Pinot Noir 30% Chardonnay | Elevage cuve inox | dosage 0 g/l | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €109.33 / 1 l
100% Chardonnay | Mono parcellaire | cuve inox | dosage 0 g/l | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €105.33 / 1 l
100% Pinot Noir | Cœur de cuvée | Mono parcellaire Champ Méchain | Elevage cuve inox | dosage 0 g/l | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €105.33 / 1 l
100% Pinot Noir 2022 | Elevage cuve inox | dosage 0 g/l | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €76.00 / 1 l
100% Pinot Noir | vendanges 2008-2014 | Elevage cuve inox | dosage 0 g/l | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €109.33 / 1 l
Edition limitée | 100% Pinot Noir | Mono Parcellaire Val Mousse | fût de chêne | Brut Nature
0.75 l bottle €326.67 / 1 l
From the Trading Floor to Champagne Icon:
In 2008, Elise Dechannes traded her career in finance for work in the vineyard in her home village of Les Riceys on the Côte des Bar. Her goal: to make Champagne in a particularly pure, unadorned form.
On her roughly 4.5 hectares, Dechannes always worked even more uncompromisingly than most organic growers. She gradually gave up copper and protected her vines solely with plant infusions of nettle and rosemary. She even stirred the biodynamic preparations by hand. Her Champagnes were fermented spontaneously, bottled unfiltered and mostly left as Brut Nature (zero dosage).
At the heart of it all is Pinot Noir, grown on the deep Kimmeridgian limestone soils of Les Riceys. Alongside used wooden casks, Dechannes also works with great success with terracotta and stoneware amphorae (the cuvées Absolue Terre and Absolue Grès) to bring out the minerality and structure of the terroir without a dominant oak influence.
After the extreme year of 2024, in which weather pressure led her to forgo a harvest, Elise Dechannes deliberately brought her work to a close. The 2023 vintage is therefore the final vintage of her domaine. The remaining bottles are accordingly highly sought-after rarities – indeed, a piece of Champagne history.
At a glance
- Region
- Côte des Bar
- Sub-region
- Les Riceys
- Grape varieties
- Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
- Soils
- Kimmeridgian limestone
- Farming
- Biodynamic
Making a great Champagne is unthinkable without respecting the land and the people who work it.
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