Winegrowers at heart for 400 years

The history of our family goes back to 1625, when Jean Perrin, one of our ancestors, cultivated his plots on the hillsides in Chigny-les-Roses. At the time, he was laying the foundations for a family passion for vines, at a point when the production of still Champagne was just beginning to take shape. In the 18th century, the Chauvet family took over the management of the family vineyard. The family consolidated the business over the decades through marriages and legacies, ensuring the continuity of the family’s presence on these Champagne lands.
The transition from working the vines to actually making champagne came at the height of the Great War. Jean Cattier (10th generation) was wounded at the front in 1916 and repatriated to his home in Chigny-les-Roses.
The nearby city of Reims, a martyr city in the First World War, was extensively shelled and 80% destroyed. Wine merchants were hard hit and Jean Cattier was unable to find a buyer for his poor harvest in 1916. So as not to lose the little he had, he bought a few barrels and produced his first wine, which would enable him to release bottles of champagne under his own «Jean Cattier» brand to celebrate the Armistice two years later.
What a symbol: the champagne of Victory.