In the beginning was the vine.
At the heart of everything we do, the vine and the terroir are the driving forces behind our business. Without them, there is no history, no transmission, no harvest, no transformation, no pleasure, no sharing.
Terroir is the first witness to time and man's relationship with nature. In the beginning was the vine.
Vines and wine are great mysteries. In the plant kingdom, the vine alone makes intelligible to us what the true flavor of the earth is.
Colette, Prisons and Paradise, 1932
When the writer Colette penned these words in 1932, Maison Bonnaire was founded the same year. Today, this phrase resonates as a tribute to the past work of the men and women of the house who, generation after generation, have revealed through their wines the sapidity of their original terroirs.
Take the time to taste...
Taking time is the French way. Whether as a family, alone or with friends, taking the time to reflect on wine is for us an absolute necessity to give meaning and pleasure to wine tasting.
Our founder Fernand and his daughter understood that champagne is a celebration in itself!
Let's make champagne a celebration, the only occasion for celebration.
Michel Onfray, The Secret Life of Bubbles
HOMO BULLA*. The connection between man and the bubble was already expressed in 17th-century Flemish paintings. The lightness, the frivolity of the soul in the image of a bursting bubble, is man's search for pleasure in the magic of the ephemeral.
This call to Epicure finds its most beautiful metaphor in a glass of champagne. Champagne bubbles are the stars and planets that make up a micro cosmos, a miniature vision of our universe where the sublime seems within reach.
A meditative wine par excellence, champagne fills us with wonder and gives meaning to our lives. It's well worth letting yourself be carried away by the light intoxication it brings.
* Man is a Bubble
Committed to the quest for beauty and goodness, the Bonnaire brothers are a long way from the globalization of taste.
Denis Hervier, Vigneron Magazine
