Champagne Deutz

Champagne Deutz was founded in 1838 in Aÿ by William Deutz and Pierre-Hubert Geldermann, both from families in Aachen where they were born during the First Empire. Young and enterprising, and attracted by the prosperity that reigned in France under King Louis-Philippe, the two immigrants from Napoleonic Prussia (Geldermann, a Champagne seller, and Deutz, a merchant) opened an office without owning any vineyards. They bought cuvées on racks, already bottled, and then disgorged, dosed, and labeled them. The House of Deutz and Geldermann prospered, and when René Deutz and Alfred Geldermann inherited the business from their fathers in the late 1860s, their Champagne sales had been growing steadily for years.

Today, past and present coexist harmoniously at the House of Champagne Deutz, combining tradition with modern management methods. While maintaining and constantly seeking to improve the technical resources put in place by its predecessors, the new management team continues to strengthen the company's relationships with its winegrower partners, visiting them at their presses and ensuring that they continue to apply the viticultural practices that make such a decisive contribution to the Deutz character. The same quest continues: combining tradition with technology to create elegant champagnes in the purest Deutz style.