This is a sparkling journey in the heart of the Côte des Bars, a day through the enchantment of the setting sun on the vineyards. There is the pleasure palace with its voluptuousness of the superfluous and the fantasy, taking us to the heart of the medieval and finishing on the hill of the Biodynamic.

In France, there are sometime chapels which, without noise, export the image of these in all their greatness, like a kind of abstract goddess escaping from a bottle after a light explosion, like Bacchus and the lord of the wine. So here is Les Riceys in the Côte des Bars with its 866 hectares of vineyards, and a commune that has the largest wine-growing area in the whole of Champagne.

Like Helios, Pierre welcomes us with his brotherhood, watching over the pleasure of the others. Coco Chanel said about champagne: “I only drink champagne on two occasions. When I am in love and when I am not. Here, the family produces nectar that helps to amaze the taste buds, but above all, they are passionate. The land of Ricey goes from the mystical to the divine with Pierre, it’s amazing, but also overwhelming. A historian’s concept, you may ask? No, I was thinking more of a network of links that governs a family for a set of poles that found the slopes of the heart of others.

Through the enchantment of the sun’s rays on the slope, I marvel at the sight of such a pleasant family castle, the Cour d’Honneur where I can still imagine the venery and its pack of yesteryear, with an alley of plane trees in the background so tall that it would be the envy of Sequoia National Park. I am immersed in a setting from a history book. A huge fireplace to roast chicken and make a feast, a castle with the atmosphere of these large warm houses that only the guardians of this temple like to express to you. Thank you for your warm welcome.

Yours sincerely.