Champagne Henriot

Champagne Henriot is a Champagne house whose history is rooted in the Henriot family’s involvement in wine and trade in the Champagne region. The official history traces the family’s arrival in Champagne to 1640, when it developed a cloth-trading business in Reims and soon added wine trading. The family later invested in vineyard land and cultivated knowledge of viticulture. The house was founded in 1808 by Apolline Henriot, a young widow who had worked alongside her husband, Nicolas Henriot, in the family’s cloth and wine businesses. The official account associates her inspiration with her family’s vineyard connections and the viticultural knowledge represented by a 1718 treatise attributed to her great-uncle, Canon Godinot. It describes her as owning vineyard land in Verzy, Verzenay and Mailly-Champagne, in the Montagne de Reims. The house presents its aim as making fine Champagnes that reflect its vineyard, with generosity, elegance and distinction. Its website features a collection including Brut Souverain, Blanc Souverain, Rosé, and the Mémoires range, which it describes as expressing particular years through the cuvée des Enchanteleurs and the house’s vintage Champagnes. The supplied evidence does not establish its current ownership, headquarters, or the markets in which it operates.

The official history of Champagne Henriot begins with the Henriot family’s arrival in Champagne in 1640. The family settled in Reims, where it pursued cloth trading and soon added wine trading. As its position in Champagne wine commerce developed, the family invested in vineyard land and built knowledge of viticulture. A second point of reference in the house’s account is 1718, when a treatise on cultivating vines and making wine in Champagne was published. The work is attributed to Canon Godinot, described by the house as Apolline Henriot’s great-uncle, and is presented as a source of knowledge and inspiration for her. Apolline Henriot founded the house in 1808. Before doing so, she had spent 14 years supporting her husband Nicolas Henriot in the family’s cloth and wine trading business. The official account describes her as a young widow at the time of founding and connects her work to the family’s vineyard ties. It names vineyard properties in Verzy, Verzenay and Mailly-Champagne, in the Montagne de Reims, and portrays Apolline as deeply attached to the Champagne region and its vineyards and landscapes. The official timeline next identifies 1880 as “the union of the two vineyards,” but the supplied excerpt ends before explaining the event. The available material therefore supports the house’s early history and its founding, but does not establish later ownership changes, leadership, headquarters, or the details of subsequent development. In the present-day material provided, Champagne Henriot describes its winemaking ambition as producing Champagnes that reflect the vineyard and show generosity, elegance and distinction. Its website presents Brut Souverain, Blanc Souverain and Rosé, as well as a Mémoires collection that includes the cuvée des Enchanteleurs and house vintage Champagnes.

• 1880

  Union of the two vineyards

• 1808

  Apolline Henriot founds the house

• 1718

  Publication of a Champagne viticulture and winemaking treatise

• 1640

  The Henriot family settles in Champagne

The house describes its Champagne as expressing its vineyard through generosity, elegance and distinction.

• Brut Souverain

  The house describes it as having a rich and diverse aromatic profile with notable complexity.

• Blanc Souverain

  The house describes it as generous and indulgent, with a broad aromatic profile from the diversity of wines selected for the blend.

• Champagne Henriot Rosé

  The official homepage identifies it as one of the house’s distinctive creations.

• Mémoires

  The house describes the collection as reflecting particular years through the cuvée des Enchanteleurs and its vintage Champagnes.

1. 1Champagne Henriot — official homepagechampagne-henriot.com
2. 2Champagne Henriot — official history pagechampagne-henriot.com