Champagne Bruno Paillard - D:Z Dosage Zéro

Champagne Bruno Paillard - D:Z Dosage ZéroBack in 1981, Bruno Paillard, aged 27, did something unusual and ambitious: he started a new Champagne house. He sold his Mark II Jaguar for 50,000 Francs, which became the working capital of the company. He borrowed money from the bank and, leveraging his knowledge of the grape market after having worked in his fathers grape brokerage house for six years, bought some grapes and rented winery space to process them. Going against the grain of corporate

and there’s no other place like it

still in family hands

an almost constant wind whistles through the vines up here ensuring good air circulation in the grapes

it was the most-imported wine category in the United States

located in the heart of the high altitude Aosta Valley

The Stewart family settled in the area in 1908

the D’Aulan family from Champagne realized that this estate

and express terroir

The grapes are sorted to keep only the healthiest and ripest clusters

and sulfur is only added at bottling

and acidulants

John decided to take his wine making to the next level and go full time