Mercier

History

According to its owner group, Eugène Mercier was 20 years old when he set up his own champagne house in Épernay in 1858.¹ In 1870 he decided to build what the group calls the largest wine cask in the world; the cask was one of the main attractions of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.¹ The group says Mercier used world fairs, the railways and cinema to make its champagne known.¹ In 2013 the house adopted new packaging, a new logo and a new signature.¹

The house today

Mercier is part of Moët Hennessy.¹ The group gives 249 ha of Mercier vines since 1958 and 150,000 cellar visits a year.¹ The UMC profile gives no vineyard area for the house itself; the 1,600 ha it shows is a consolidated MHCS figure.² See Moët & Chandon and Dom Pérignon, also listed under MHCS.^4,5

The house's own website could not be opened for this page; the facts above come from the owner group and the UMC. See Champagne houses.