This yr, following the departure of Gilles Descôtes, Champagne Bollinger has introduced a brand new staff construction that displays the Maison’s historical past and values to strengthen its administration staff in preparation of the Bicentenary.
In 2022, Maison Bollinger introduced the launch of its “Bold Plans for our Bicentenary 12 months”, to be celebrated in 2029.
These ‘Bold Plans’ embrace the renovation of a historic web site with the creation of a cathedral like cellar open to the vines, the event of a singular oenotourism web site and the launch of an environmental and societal constitution. These initiatives are already underway and can be accomplished over the course of the subsequent few years.
The Maison is establishing a brand new, modern staff that aligns with its imaginative and prescient and is centred round three people, Denis Bunner, Gael Vuille and Benoît Pernod.
Bunner is appointed chief wine maker and can sit on the head of the corporate’s Wine Committee, answerable for sustaining the standard of wines and managing the mixing course of. Bunner is a graduate of AgroParis Tech and ESSEC, was recruited by Gilles Descôtes in 2013 as assistant cellar grasp.
Appointed winery and provide director, Vuille is a graduate agronomist from ENSA Montpellier and was recruited by Gilles Descôtes in 2008 as winery supervisor.
Pernod joined Champagne Bollinger in 2022 and is now director of operations, answerable for all manufacturing operations, and oversees the Bicentenary initiatives. Pernod graduated from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur as an engineer and has expertise within the mineral business, glass and, extra just lately, in an agricultural cooperative.
This new staff is aligned with the imaginative and prescient and the work undertaken for 20 years by Gilles Descôtes.
