Nicolas Feuillatte

History

According to the group, a surplus harvest in 1970 led growers to pool their efforts, and the Centre Vinicole de la Champagne was founded in 1972 under Henri Macquart in the Côte des Blancs.² In 1976 Nicolas Feuillatte, born in Paris in 1926, created a champagne under his own name for friends in the United States. In 1986 he sold the brand to the Centre Vinicole, which became the Centre Vinicole Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte.²

The group gives sales of 1 million bottles of the brand in 1995 and 10 million in 2014. Its head office and visitor area in Chouilly opened in 2017.² On 1 January 2022 the Centre Vinicole merged with the Coopérative Régionale des Vins de Champagne (Champagne Castelnau) to form Terroirs & Vignerons de Champagne (TEVC).² The Union des Maisons de Champagne now lists the house Henriot under TEVC.⁴

Members and vineyards

The group gives 82 cooperatives, about 5,000 growers and about 2,100 ha of vines. Its wines draw on 11 of the 17 grands crus, 26 of the 42 premiers crus and 145 of the 260 other crus of the appellation, in the Vallée de la Marne, Montagne de Reims, Côte de Sézanne and Côte des Bar among other areas.¹ The brand employs 250 people.³

Wines

Cuvées named by the brand include Réserve Exclusive Brut, Réserve Exclusive Rosé and an organic Extra Brut.³ On labels, cooperative wines carry the code CM; see label codes.⁵