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Champagne Prévoteau-Perrier
At A Glance
Champagne Prévoteau-Perrier is a family grower in Damery. The estate vinifies grapes from 30 hectares, including 22 hectares wholly owned, with Delphine and Christophe Boudard-Prévoteau managing the domaine alongside their son Mathis. La Vallée is the clearest introduction: a dry brut built from Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, and Chardonnay.
The Producer
The Prévoteau-Perrier name began with a marriage in 1946, when Henri Prévoteau married Alice Perrier. Today, Delphine and Christophe Boudard-Prévoteau manage the family estate with Mathis. Their work remains close to the grapes: Christophe and Mathis make and blend the cuvées at the domaine, giving the house control over the wines from harvest through assembly.
Champagne.fr lists Prévoteau-Perrier as a grower in Damery. The range includes a Pinot-led dry brut, a lower-dosage Extra-Brut from old vines, and Adrienne Lecouvreur, an equal blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Each bottle has a different place in the range because each begins with a different blend or cellar choice.
Place
Damery is the confirmed home of the estate, while grapes from Mesnil-sur-Oger Grand Cru also enter the house blends. The label therefore brings together family-held vineyard fruit and fruit from a named Grand Cru source. That blending approach gives Prévoteau-Perrier room to shape different cuvées without claiming that every bottle comes from one single parcel or one uniform vineyard profile.
The estate’s confirmed place is Champagne, with Damery as its grower base. The supplied material does not establish a more specific village appellation or subregion, so the wines are best understood through their named cuvées, grape proportions, and production choices.
Soil And Site
The family works the soil with blades that turn the earth and limit weeds. Manual or mechanical cultivation replaces herbicides, and biocontrol products are used in the vineyard. These are visible decisions about how the vines are farmed: the ground is worked directly, weeds are managed through cultivation, and plant protection relies on a broader set of tools.
Since June 2021, the estate has held level-three Haute Valeur Environnementale certification. Its environmental program covers carbon accounting, biodiversity, water management, and reasoned nutrition and plant protection across the operation. The certification describes the scope of the work; the blade cultivation shows what that work looks like between the vines.
Story
The family’s arc moves from a joined name to an estate run across generations. Patrice Prévoteau and his wife Claude developed both the vineyard and the customer base, turning the family operation into a larger working business. Delphine and Christophe later took over with Mathis, carrying the estate into its current phase.
That succession has a direct cellar consequence. The people managing the vines are connected to the people making the blends, and Christophe and Mathis still elaborate the cuvées at the estate. The family story is therefore present in the bottle as a continuing chain of vineyard work, customer relationships, and in-house production.
Vineyards And Cellar
The estate vinifies grapes from 30 hectares, with 22 hectares in full ownership. Fruit from Mesnil-sur-Oger Grand Cru also enters the blends, expanding the raw material available for the house’s different cuvées.
The production sequence begins with rigorous manual picking and pressing. The wines then go through secondary fermentation, disgorgement, and final shipment. Christophe and Mathis make and blend the cuvées at the estate, so the family’s role covers the decisive movement from pressed grape juice to finished Champagne.
Wines
La Vallée is a dry brut made from 20% Chardonnay and 80% Pinot varieties. Gault&Millau specifies that Pinot portion as 40% Pinot Noir and 40% Pinot Meunier. Its range position is clear: a fruit-led house Champagne whose nose brings white and yellow fruit, garrigue, black pepper, and delicate smoke, followed by lively bubbles and delicate noble bitters.
Extra-Brut uses all three Champagne varieties in a blend from old vines, with low dosage. The lower dosage places it in a drier style than La Vallée, while the old-vine source gives the cuvée a distinct starting point within the range. Its role is a three-variety, low-sugar expression of the estate’s fruit.
Adrienne Lecouvreur shifts the proportions again, pairing 50% Chardonnay with 50% Pinot Noir from the house’s distinguished vines. It sits apart from La Vallée’s Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier balance, offering a different white and red grape relationship within the same family range.
In The Glass
La Vallée opens with white and yellow fruit, then brings in the dry herbal edge of garrigue, a touch of black pepper, and delicate smoke. The bubbles arrive lively across the palate, carrying generous fruit through the middle of the wine. The finish narrows toward delicate noble bitters, leaving a clean, savoury impression after the fruit has faded.
Across the range, the blend changes the way the wine speaks. La Vallée leans on Pinot varieties for its generous fruit and active mousse. Extra-Brut brings old vines and low dosage into the foreground, making dryness a more visible part of the palate. Adrienne Lecouvreur moves to an equal Chardonnay and Pinot Noir blend, placing the white grape and red grape side by side in a more evenly divided cuvée.
A Bottle To Understand It
Start with La Vallée. It is a dry brut with a clear blend of 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier, and 20% Chardonnay, so the label gives a direct account of what is in the bottle. In the glass, white and yellow fruit lead into garrigue, black pepper, and delicate smoke, while lively bubbles carry generous fruit toward noble bitters.
La Vallée is the right first bottle because its grape mix, dry style, and complete tasting profile are all easy to connect. The wine gives a direct look at how Prévoteau-Perrier combines Pinot-led fruit with Chardonnay freshness in a family-made Champagne.
Anecdote
In 1946, Henri Prévoteau married Alice Perrier. Their marriage joined two family names, and the Prévoteau-Perrier marque arose from that union. The new name became the house’s working name as the family developed its vineyard and customer base. Patrice Prévoteau and his wife Claude carried that work forward, followed by Delphine and Christophe Boudard-Prévoteau with their son Mathis. Today Christophe and Mathis make and blend the cuvées at the estate. A marriage in 1946 sits at the beginning of a name still printed on the bottles: Prévoteau-Perrier.
Final Word
Prévoteau-Perrier brings together Damery grower status, 30 hectares of vinified grapes, direct soil cultivation, and family blending at the estate. La Vallée is the natural first pour: a dry, Pinot-led Champagne with fruit, lively bubbles, smoke, pepper, and a savoury finish.
Sources
- https://champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/histoire.php
- https://champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/maisonetvignoble.php
- https://champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/engagement_environnementaux.php
- https://champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/vinification.php
- https://www.champagne.fr/en/visit-champagne/directory-champagne-producers/champagne-prevoteau-perrier
- https://www.champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/en/la_vallee.php
- https://www.champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/en/extra_brut.php
- https://www.champagne-prevoteau-perrier.fr/en/adrienne_lecouvreur.php
- https://fr.gaultmillau.com/fr/wineries/prevoteau-perrier/la-vallee-prevoteau
- https://results.concoursmondial.com/en/results/2025/228653-champagne-prevoteau-perrier-cuvee-adrienne-lecouvreur