A night with Franck Bonville’s Olivier Bonville – Chez vous!

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to welcome one of the celebrated growers of Champagne to a tasting at your place! Olivier Bonville is the third generation of his family to tend the vines and craft the champagnes of his family estate of Franck Bonville in the fabled grand cru of Avize.

Olivier’s family has been growing grand cru grapes on the C?te des Blancs for more than a century, and bottling their own champagnes since 1947. Their old 1936 press still stands in pride of place on display in their house in Avize, purchased by his grandfather in 1937, complete with press, oak casks and five levels of glorious nineteenth-century chalk cellars.

Olivier is privileged to 20 glorious hectares of prime grand cru turf, largely in Avize, with old vines on the slope of Oger and a little in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger and Cramant. Tended sustainably and vinified with precision, his polished blanc de blancs contrasts the tension and brilliance of Avize with the generosity and exoticism of Oger.

My evening with Olivier is the ultimate opportunity to hear the stories and connect with a man who crafts every facet of his cuvées, from an environmental approach across his 77 plots of vines, to a fanatical approach in the cellar. You're invited to join me and Olivier for the next episode in my champagne webinar series on 29 May!