Ruinart
Champagne Ruinart is a champagne house in Reims . It was founded on September 1, 1729 by Nicolas Irénée Ruinart, the nephew of the Benedictine monk Dom Thierry Ruinart , and is the oldest still active champagne house.
History of the house
Dom Ruinart came from a middle-class family of cloth merchants from Champagne. During his trading trips in Europe, he recognized the future potential for the production of champagne. He recognized the growing enthusiasm in the aristocratic courts, which was triggered by the champagne . He conveyed this knowledge and his vision of champagne to his brother Nicolas Ruinart.
He had to wait for the royal decree of May 25, 1728 in order to realize his plans. With this decree, the king allowed the transport of wine in bottles. Before this point in time, wine could not be transported in bottles, but only in barrels, which was unthinkable for champagne.
The first shipments of champagne went to cloth merchants, what would be called promotional gifts today . Like his uncle twenty years earlier, Nicolas Ruinart soon discovered that the wine business was more profitable than the cloth business. In the ports, the champagne baskets with bottled wine on the ships will soon replace the balls of cloth and rolls of cloth. Business was so good that from 1735 onwards, the only activity of the Ruinart house was selling champagne.
Today Ruinart belongs to the luxury goods company LVMH .
Trivia
The champagne house was the donor of the cup of the 1st Swiss Football Championship in 1897/98 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arrêté royal du 25 may 1728. In: Bruno Duteurtre: Le champagne - de la tradition à la science. Lavoisier Group, 2010, ISBN 978-2-7430-1920-4 , p. 3.