Pauline Collin Bérêche

Pauline Collin Berêche is the personal label of Pauline Collin, launched in 2016. Pauline is the seventh generation of her family to tend vines in the Montagne de Reims - the Collin roots are in Ludes - and her father is Didier Collin of Champagne Collin-Guillaume, the family house headquartered in Sillery. (A handful of US importer pages have her listed as the daughter of Anselme Selosse's neighbor Olivier Collin of Ulysse Collin in Congy. Different family altogether.)

Pauline trained at Ruinart and Krug before starting her own label - that detail comes from her US importer profiles rather than the producer's own materials, but it's the consistent line. She is also married to Raphaël Bérêche of Bérêche & Fils, and the two domaines share a cellar and a working sensibility: barrel ferments, native yeasts, no filtration, very low dosage.

The range is small - the flagship is the Vieilles Vignes from a roughly 2-hectare parcel of old vines in Ludes 1er Cru, vinified in 450-litre used Burgundy barrels (sourced from Vincent Girardin in Meursault) and aged about four years on lees in bottle. Production is in the 9,000-10,000 bottle range per release. The wider Bérêche orbit also includes Domaine les Monts Fournois - Juliette Alips's project with Raphaël and Vincent, same cellar, different label.