Brice

Family and house

The Brice family traces its roots in Bouzy to 1684, the date of the oldest parish registers of the village; the house places this in the period when, in its words, the first bottles of champagne were made.² According to the house, Simon Fétizon built the family house in 1764.² In 1945 René Brice took over the estate, completed replanting after phylloxera, enlarged the cellars and released the first Champagne Brice cuvées.² Jean-Paul Brice returned in 1966, and in 1994 he became a négociant and a member of the Union des Maisons de Champagne, buying grapes to add to the family vines.² The house names Remi and Jean-René Brice as the twelfth generation and states 100,000 bottles a year, more than 30% exported.²

Vineyard

The UMC gives 10 ha in 3 villages.¹ The house's own site gives 12 ha: Bouzy grand cru, Chigny-les-Roses premier cru (mostly Meunier) and 2.5 ha at Loches-sur-Ource in the Aube (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay), certified organic since the 2023 harvest.⁴

Wines

The UMC lists the Brut Héritage range, a long-aged brut nature, a premier cru blanc de blancs, a blanc de noirs, vintage wines including Le Poteau, and still red and white Coteaux Champenois from Bouzy.¹