Maison de Champagne · since 1834
Twelve houses founded
modern champagne in 1834.
Eleven still lead the world. One disappeared in 1944. In 2026 it returns.
The Legend
The legend
Five chapters. Three movements. A house founded in the same year as Piper-Heidsieck, that had to outlive a silence, and that returns in 2026.
The Champagne
Cuvée Fondation.
Brut · Champagne · First edition of 1,834 bottles.
A classical Champagne brut: brioche, white peach, almond blossom. A taut mineral line, a quiet length. Not a wine that announces itself — a wine that holds the table.
Collectors
The discipline of the maison.
Lecureux & Cie. is a Maison de Champagne — founded 1834, revived 2026.
We do not vinify. We work with established houses of the Champagne, producers held to the region's highest standard for generations.
Maison
A name from the chalk.
It began with a book.
A summer evening in Épernay, three hours from Paris by TGV, an antiquarian's shop on a side street off the Avenue de Champagne. On the table lay a quarto in beige linen, the spine cracked, the title page dated Reims, 1903. A study of the Champagne houses, their foundings, their mergers, their bankruptcies.
Eugène Lecureux · 1801 – 1878
The one who was missing.
Eugène Lecureux was born in 1801 in Colmar, in the then-Napoleonic Alsace. His father, Jacques Lecureux, was a third-generation cloth merchant — a business that carried the Continental Blockade and broke on the Wars of Liberation. In 1815, the year of Waterloo, Eugène was fourteen. The father died two years later; the …
Pricing
Two editions. One run. One maison.
First edition: 1,834 bottles. Two tiers.
A name out of the chalk.
The novel behind the maison. An antiquarian bookshop in Épernay. A forgotten 1834 champagne house. A search through the archives of Champagne. Written by Dr. Raphael Nagel and Marcus Köhnlein.
View the book →Available at raphaelnagel.com