Champagne Henriot

What Champagne Henriot does

Champagne Henriot is a family-owned Champagne house founded in 1808 in Reims by Apolline Henriot and currently in its eighth generation of family control. The legal entity, Champagne Henriot France SAS, employs 11-50 people and operates as an independent producer with no disclosed parent company or external investors. Its portfolio is structured in four tiers: signature cuvées (Brut Souverain, Blanc Souverain, Rosé), exceptional vintage cuvées (Millésime 2015, Rosé Millésimé 2015 aged minimum 8 years), rare cuvées (L'inattendue single-parcel Chardonnays, Cuvée Hemera, Cuve 38 perpetual reserve limited to 1,000 numbered magnums per year, Cuvée des Enchanteleurs, and the Mé moires heritage library dating to the 1921 vintage), and a Rose Noire sub-brand alongside gift boxes and accessories. Production is anchored in the 'Art of Assemblage' (L'art de l'assemblage), a multi-crus, multi-vintage blending philosophy established by the founder, with 100% of Cuve 38 sourcing from Grand Cru villages (Avize, Chouilly, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Oger).

The Maison sources through the Alliance Terroirs program, initiated in 2020 under Cheffe de Caves Alice Tétienne, coordinating 76 independent winegrowers across 29 villages; the vineyard is certified HVE, VDC, and Viticulture Biologique since January 2025. Commercial operations are split between a France-only DTC e-commerce platform (boutique.champagne-henriot.com) with a 6-bottle minimum order and a dedicated B2B division for corporate gifts and events with same-day quotes and multi-address delivery. Pricing ranges from approximately €89 for a six-bottle signature case to €1,890 for rare cuvée cartons. Distribution is geographically restricted to metropolitan France, with an export email address suggesting latent international intent but no executed foreign-market channels. Marketing emphasizes heritage storytelling (eight-generation family narrative, 1640 origin), terroir education, and the Les Aulnois estate (acquired 2014 in Pierry) as an exclusive hospitality venue for distributors, journalists, and trade visitors.

Name

Champagne Henriot

Legal name

Champagne Henriot France SAS

Website

https://champagne-henriot.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1808

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Champagne Henriot is a family-owned, eighth-generation Champagne house founded in 1808 in Reims, France, producing prestige multi-crus and single-parcel cuvées from Grand Cru vineyards. It sells primarily through a France-only DTC e-commerce platform and a dedicated corporate B2B gifting division, supported by the Les Aulnois estate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Prestige Champagne

NAICS

Wineries (312130), Beverage Manufacturing (3121), Beer, Wine, and Liquor Retailers (445320)

SIC

Wholesale-Beer, Wine & Distilled Alcoholic Beverages (5180)

akta.pro primary industry

Wine & Sparkling Wine Wineries & Brands (CRADAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wineries & Vineyards (Tasting Rooms) (THAFALAE), Fine Wine & Luxury Spirits Retail (CRANABAE)

Keywords

• Prestige champagne production
• Vintage cuvee wines
• Champagne corporate gifting
• Grand cru champagne
• Champagne direct-to-consumer

Headquarters

HQ city

Reims

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Direct Champagne Sales (B2C): The company operates an e-commerce platform selling champagnes directly to consumers in France. Sales include signature cuvées, exceptional cuvées, rare editions, and accessories. Products are sold in various formats including bottles, magnums, jéroboams, and gift boxes.
2. Corporate Business Gifts and Events (B2B): Champagne Henriot provides dedicated B2B services for corporate gifts, events, incentives, and network animations. They offer personalized service with dedicated account managers, same-day quotes, and multi-address delivery across France.
3. Accessories and Merchandise: Sale of branded accessories including champagne flutes, ice buckets, stopper corks, aprons, and gift bags through the e-commerce platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Champagne Henriot is a family-owned Champagne House that produces and sells a portfolio of prestige Champagnes — signature cuvées, exceptional vintage cuvées, and rare cuvées — through its direct-to-consumer e-commerce boutique and a B2B corporate sales division serving France. The Maison applies the Art of Assemblage, blending wines from multiple crus and vintages, and ages all cuvées a minimum of 3 to 10+ years on lees before release.

Product overview

Champagne Henriot is a family-owned Champagne House founded in 1808 by Apolline Henriot, offering a portfolio of prestige Champagnes across multiple collections. The portfolio is organized into four tiers: (1) Signature Cuvées — Brut Souverain (multi-crus, multi-vintage blend of three grape varieties, the House's founding cuvée since 1808), Blanc Souverain (100% Chardonnay multi-vintage assemblage), and Rosé (multi-vintage rosé with red wine from Aÿ); (2) Exceptional Cuvées — Millésime 2015 and Rosé Millésimé 2015 (vintage-dated, terroir-expressive Champagnes aged minimum 8 years); (3) Rare Cuvées — L'inattendue (single-terroir, single-grape annual releases), Cuvée Hemera (equal-parts six crus prestige cuvée), Cuve 38 (perpetual reserve of Chardonnay Grand Crus in magnum), Cuvée des Enchanteleurs (vintage from six founding Grand Crus), and the heritage Mémoires collection of ancient cellar bottles; and (4) The Rose Noire sub-brand and boxed gift sets. Champagne Henriot also operates the Alliance Terroirs initiative (HVE, VDC, and organic-certified viticulture as of 2025) and the Gestures of Excellence program pairing winemaking with artisan craftspeople.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cuvées Signature: Signature cuvées including Brut Souverain, Blanc Souverain, and Rosé
• Cuvées Exceptionnelles
• Les Raretés
• Cuvées Rose Noire

Products and services

• Brut Souverain The signature cuvée of Maison Henriot: a multi-cru, multi-vintage assemblage of the three principal Champagne grape varieties (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier). Aged a minimum of 3 years in caves; sold in bottles, magnums, and jéroboams.
• Blanc Souverain (Blanc de Blancs) A 100% Chardonnay cuvée, multi-vintage, assembled from the House's complete range of Chardonnay crus to express the different ages of the vineyard.
• Rosé A multi-vintage rosé Champagne assembled from the three principal Champagne grape varieties with a red wine component from Aÿ. Recreated each year with freshness and minerality as guiding characteristics.
• Millésime 2015 A vintage Champagne reflecting the characteristic terroirs of 2015, assembled from Premier and Grand Cru wines from Trépail, Verzy, Verzenay, Avenay, Avize, and Vertus. Aged a minimum of 8 years in caves.
• Rosé Millésimé 2015 A vintage rosé Champagne created from specific crus in the south of Montagne de Reims (Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Avenay, Mutigny, Chouilly, Avize), with 10% red Pinot Noir wine from Aÿ.
• L'inattendue 2018 A single-terroir, single-vintage, single-grape (100% Chardonnay) cuvée from Chouilly Grand Cru. Bottled after more than 4 years of aging in caves with a low dosage of 2 g/L.
• L'inattendue 2016 A single-terroir, single-vintage, single-grape cuvée from the Avize vineyard in the Côte des Blancs.
• Cuvée Hemera 2013 A prestige cuvée symbolizing the union of Henriot's six historic Grand Cru crus (Verzy, Verzenay, Mailly-Champagne, Avize, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Chouilly), assembled in equal parts around the 2013 vintage. Aged a minimum of 10 years in caves.
• Cuve 38 — Réserve Perpétuelle A perpetual reserve created in 1990 by Joseph Henriot, dedicated to the Côte des Blancs and the Chardonnay grape. Each year a new harvest extract is added; composed exclusively of Grand Cru villages (Chouilly, Avize, Oger, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger). Released as 1,000 numbered magnums per year.
• Cuvée des Enchanteleurs 2015 A rare vintage cuvée assembled in equal parts from the six founding Grand Cru crus of Maison Henriot (Verzy, Verzenay, Mailly-Champagne, Avize, Chouilly, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger), with 50% Chardonnay and 50% Pinot Noir. Produced only in exceptional years and aged a minimum of 10 years on lees.
• Mémoires A heritage collection of flacons carefully preserved in caves, representing eight generations of the Henriot family. The oldest creation is Millésime 1921. Each bottle is manually disgorged and individually tasted by the Cheffe de Caves before receiving a numbering witnessing its rarity.
• Rose Noire Cuvées A sub-brand collection of prestige Champagnes under the Rose Noire label, including Brut, Pur Chardonnay, and Cuvée Célébration, assembled from prestigious crus of the Côte des Blancs and Montagne de Reims.
• Coffret Signature (Gift Box) A gift box containing three signature cuvées: one bottle each of Brut Souverain, Blanc Souverain, and Rosé.
• Coffret Prestige A prestige gift box containing one bottle each of Millésime 2015, Rosé Millésimé 2015, and L'inattendue 2018.
• Coffret Estival A summer gift box containing one bottle each of Blanc de Blancs, Rosé, and Rosé Millésimé 2015.
• Carton Découverte (Limited Edition) A limited edition carton of 6 bottles containing five exceptional cuvées: two bottles of Brut Souverain, one bottle of Blanc de Blancs, one bottle of Rosé, one bottle of Millésime 2015, and one bottle of Rosé Millésimé 2015.
• Champagne Accessories (Flûtes, Seaux, Bouchons, Vases, Tabliers, Sacs) Champagne tasting accessories sold through the e-commerce boutique, including champagne flutes (32 cl and 44 cl), ice buckets, stopper corks, aluminum basins, sommelier aprons, and gift bags in small and large formats.

Quantifiable outcome

• All cuvées aged minimum 3-10+ years before release
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• 76 Winegrowers Network (Alliance Terroirs)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020The Alliance Terroirs project, initiated in 2020 and coordinated by Cheffe de Caves Alice Tétienne, works with a network of 76 independent winegrowers (vignerons) across 29 villages in Champagne. This partnership is fundamental to the Maison's terroir knowledge and viticultural practices. The network enables precision viticulture with attention to each individual parcel, representing the 6th generation of soil studies within the Henriot family.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bollinger: Independent family-owned Champagne house (founded 1829) with similar Grand Cru vineyard base, pinot-noir-led style, and prestige Special Cuvée / RD offerings directly comparable to Henriot's Signature and Rare cuvées.
• Laurent-Perrier: Family-controlled, publicly listed Champagne house with comparable prestige portfolio (Grand Siècle) and similar positioning in the high-end Champagne segment; benchmarks Henriot's potential scale trajectory.
• Billecart-Salmon: Family-owned Champagne house founded 1818 with comparable artisanal positioning and prestige cuvées (Cuvée Nicolas François Billecart); a strong direct peer in size, style, and heritage positioning.
• Taittinger: Family-controlled Champagne house (re-acquired by the Taittinger family in 2005) with a similar Chardonnay-dominant style and prestige cuvée (Comtes de Champagne). Closely matches Henriot's Côte des Blancs emphasis.
• Louis Roederer: Family-owned Champagne house producing Cristal prestige cuvée; comparable in its artisanal, vineyard-driven model and Grand Cru sourcing strategy. Slightly larger scale than Henriot.
• Pol Roger: Family-owned Champagne house founded in 1849, similar in scale and craft positioning to Henriot, with comparable multi-vintage blending philosophy and prestige cuvée offerings (Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill).
• Salon / Delamotte: Sibling houses specializing in Côte des Blancs Chardonnay — Salon is a single-vintage prestige cuvée comparable to Henriot's Cuve 38 perpetual reserve; Delamotte is its Blanc de Blancs sister brand analogous to Henriot's Blanc Souverain.
• Deutz: Smaller family-affiliated Champagne house (majority owned by Groupe Roederer) with comparable craft positioning, Grand Cru sourcing, and prestige cuvée (Amour de Deutz); a benchmark for similar-tier Champagne houses.

Broad incumbents

• Ruinart: LVMH-owned, the oldest established Champagne house (1729), specializing in Chardonnay-dominant champagnes that directly compete with Henriot's Blanc Souverain. LVMH's distribution reach dramatically exceeds Henriot's.
• Perrier-Jouët: Pernod Ricard-owned prestige Champagne house with Belle Époque cuvée; competes in the same premium segment as Henriot but with the distribution scale of a global spirits conglomerate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@champagnehenriot
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• Facebookfacebook.com/champagnehenriot

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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