Ruinart

Nicolas Ruinart is the son of a Drapier from the Champagne region, where the famous Foire de Troyes is held, crossroads of all trades including that of Aÿ wines, which would later be called Vin de Champagne in the 19th century.

He is also the nephew of Dom Thierry Ruinart, a Benedictine monk, born in 1657 and died in 1709 at Hautvillers Abbey in Champagne where precisely he initiated and discovered with Dom Pérignon the Secrets of Champagnisation.

Dom Ruinart, from the nobility, is a visionary, an author, a scholar who also worked alongside Dom Mabillon at the Abbey of Saint Germain des Prés. Dom Ruinard was close to the Court, its social life, its fads and its art of living. From there, he was able to pass on his erudition and insights into Champagne wine to his nephew, inviting Nicolas Ruinard to found his own Maison.