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Domaine les Monts Fournois
Montagne de Reims, France4 wines4.3 avg
A Bérêche family project led by Juliette Alips with cousins Raphaël and Vincent Bérêche - an eponymous Ludes 1er Cru monopole and a parallel Crus Selectionnes range while the home estate vines mature.
Domaine les Monts Fournois is a side-project rooted in the Bérêche family, run by Juliette Alips with her cousins Raphaël and Vincent Bérêche of Bérêche & Fils acting as mentors and partners. Juliette graduated from oenology school in Beaune in 2020 and worked harvests at Louis Latour, G.D. Vajra in Piedmont, and Maison Louis Roederer before launching the domaine.
The heart of the project is a roughly 9-hectare south-facing monopole on the lieu-dit Les Monts Fournois in Ludes - 1er Cru on the northern flank of the Montagne de Reims, planted half Pinot Noir / half Chardonnay. The first monopole release will be the 2022 vintage, scheduled for 2027. Until those wines are ready, the domaine puts out a parallel Crus Selectionnes range: micro-negociant cuvees built from trusted growers across Champagne, finished in the domaine's cellar in Ludes. The flagship of that range so far is the Cote Chouilly Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs, an NV long-aged on lees.
The intent is straightforward: keep the Bérêche cellar style - barrel ferment, low dosage, extended elevage - while giving Juliette her own platform and giving the family vines time to come into their own. The other label that shares this cellar is Pauline Collin Berêche, Pauline Collin's own project - Pauline is married to Raphaël Bérêche, and the three labels (Bérêche & Fils, Pauline Collin Bérêche, and the Domaine) operate as a single working ecosystem.
