Blooming of a bud.

Day by day, you will follow the blooming of a bud of Chardonnay.

25th of March : The sap is going up.

We are the 25th of Marchn the spring has only 5 days old but the warm températures have driven up the sap from the bottom of the roots.

Sap is leaking from the top of the branch : We say that the vine is crying :

And the buds begin to open : It's called "debourrement"

Bud is opening its cotton protection.

Last pruning cuts.

This morning, we have pruned our last plot. It was the youngest one that surrounds the House. We wanted to wait for the last moment to nok risk being caught by frost, but the summer temperatures (20°C afternoon) told us to hurry. Sap began to climb in the branches.

Still very small branches of these young vine have been cut to determine the final pruning shape for each grape variety.

This vine is near by the house and the tasting room, wa have planted two roads of Pinot Meunier that we will prune in Guyot, two roads of Pinot Noir which will take the shape a Cordon de Royat and the rest is planted with Chardonnay (specific white grappe of Villers Marmery, on the slopes of Montagne de Reims mostly in Pinot Noir) which we will prune in Chablis.

Small wood and branches were tighten in bundles to lihjt our barbecues.

Planting of the plot "Les Croix"

After 41 years and good and loyal services, the Chardonnay of  "les Croix" located at Villers-Marmery was erased last automn. The soil has relied throughoput the winter and has suffered the freezing and thawing which aerate.

As a first step, should be drawn alignments and parallels to prepare implementation of the vine. Roads will be spaced each meter. Then, a cord is tense, it is leaded each meter and twenty centimeters to show the location of the ceps. Now, it's time to make hole that will receive the new plant.


After being grafted,  and to avoid the cannot become infected at the level of the wound of grafting, the plants are dipped in wax (red this year). This shell will protect the new vine, but its low resistance will not prevent it to grow.

The young vines are then gently planted by hand, and we fill the hole and compacting so the roots will be in contact with the soil. Should repeat as many times as there are hole. On this plot of 0.0492 hectares, they are more than 440 plants.

The planting is now complete. Soon we will need ri protect the plant with nets to prevent rabbit from eating the buds and waint to years to see the first grappes that we will be abble to harvest after 3 years.

Australian Importer

We are rassured on the visibility of the indicator signs, the Australien importeyr has found ots way without difficulty.

Since he had nit come to visit us for a few yeards, Marie-Noëlle was pleased to offer hil a discovery, on nex discovery of all the cuvées of the range of Champagne Henriet bazin.

New signs

We found that our visitors struggling sometimes to find Champagne Henriet Bazin because our new reception and tasting room is located in the heart of the vineyards, in a litlle street, unknown in the majority of navigatio systems.

They often foud us after using a great determination and with a dose of luck.

Today, we finally hupdate a dign in the village to lead you to the correcte address.

So, see you soon.

US Importers, Peter and Maria.

We just had the pleasure to spend a very good time with Peter and Maria, wine importers in New-York County.

They tasted all the cuvées of Champagne Henriet Bazin with Marie-Noëlle and were very surprised by the specefic power and flavor of our elegant Pinot Noir from Verzenay and Verzy. They were also impressed by the terroir taste and the chalky aromas of our Chardonnay from Villers-Marmery.

To be continue...