In the 19th century, Athanase de Villermont, a great soldier who distinguished himself during the American War of Independence, inherited a vast estate in the vicinity of Aÿ from his family. He immediately sensed the tremendous potential of Champagne wines.

He then met Joseph Bollinger, a great traveller who had left his native Germany to train in the Champagne wine trade, and Paul Renaudin, a pure Champagne native fascinated by the world of wine, On 6 February 1829, the company Renaudin-Bollinger & Cie was founded

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