Adrien Renoir

Vincent and Adrien Renoir organically cultivating a mere 6 hectares of Grand Cru vineyards, in the heart of the Montagne de Reims, the house of Champagne Renoir has been growing vines and making wines for 4 generations.  The vineyards are managed organically.  Since 2017, all the wines produced were fermented and aged entirely in neutral oak to allow to wine to develop better texture and more complexity before secondary fermentation in bottle.  The wines undergone a long and lengthy ageing on lees for autolytic depth to be developed.

"As I wrote last year, the young Adrien Renoir took over this four-hectare domaine in Verzy a few years ago, launching his eponymous label in 2019. Working exclusively with estate fruit, he abandoned herbicides in 2015 and attained organic certification in 2020. In the cellar, he started out with one or two barrels and, appreciating the results, now vinifies everything in barrel, maturing his reserve wines in oak foudres. Winemaking here is artisanal, with ambient yeast fermentations, lees stirring and no temperature control. The wines are disgorged with jetting but without any added sulfites and dosed with MCR. Every new release from Renoir seems to surpass the last, so I can only encourage readers to start paying attention to one of Champagne's brightest young talents." (Wine Advocate Mar 31, 2021)