Benoît Lahaye is a

Grower Champagne Grower Champagnes or Artisan Champagnes are Champagnes produced by the estate that owns the vineyards where the grapes are grown. ''Récoltant-Manipulant'' is the term in French language, French, and Grower Champagnes can be identified by "RM" on t ...

producer. He took over his family's domaine in the

Montagne de Reims Montagne or Montagné may refer to: People * Camille Montagne (1784–1866), French military physician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Mont. (of Montagne) is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical na ...

Benoît Lahaye
Charles Neal Selections in 1993.Benoît Lahaye
Grand Cru Selections, New York City The estate has of vines, became organic-certified in 2003, and biodynamic-certified in 2010.Extraordinary Organic and Biodynamic Champagnes from Benoit Lahaye and A & J Beaufort!
Chambers Street Wines (Certified organic vineyards account for only around 1% of the total land in the Champagne wine region.) Eighty-eight percent of the vineyards are planted with

pinot noir Pinot noir (), also known as Pinot nero, is a red-wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. The name also refers to wines created predominantly from Pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French language, French words fo ...

. Most of the vines are in Bouzy, there is in Ambonnay, and a bit of old vine

Chardonnay Chardonnay (, ; ) is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new a ...

in the

Côte des Blancs The Côte des Blancs is an area of Champagne vineyards. Located in the department of Marne, it lies south of Epernay, stretches for about 20 km, and had a vineyard area of in 2006. The ''Côte des Blancs'' is a mostly eastern-facing slo ...

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