The Révélation of Lancelot-Pienne

Gilles Lancelot’s winery sits at a point in Cramant from where you have an almost full panorama of the vineyards of Cotes des Blancs. He is a Récoltant Manipulant, the descendant of a family that began cultivating their own grapes at the start of the 20th century. The family tradition started with Jean-Bapitiste Lancelot who at the time was already head enologist at the Cramant pressoir of Maison Mumm. After the Second World War, his son Jean, who had also worked at other Maisons, began experimenting making Champagne with his own grapes and sold his first bottles. The Lancelot-Pienne brand was created in 1967 when Jean’s son Albert, who had followed in his father’s footsteps, married Brigitte Pienne who was also from Champagne and a winemaking family. Together the vineyards of the two families allowed the winery to rely on its own grapes from 8.3 hectares of vineyards, planted mostly with Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier together with some Pinot Noir. The vineyards are fragmented into a host of small parcels spread throughout Cotes de Blancs and Vallée de la Marne.

Since 1996, Gilles Lancelot has been passionately running the family business. A trained enologist, he has a deep-rooted sense of tradition and the ten years he spent working alongside his father Albert has ensured that Lancelot-Pienne Champagne maintains its rigorous style, beginning with it slow pressing, malolactic fermentation and sitting on the lees for at least 30 months.

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