Elodie D. champagne tour: visits, prices & booking

History

The family account begins with Marie Postié, born in 1658. Élodie Desbordes traces eleven generations of viticulture through vineyard-owning families at Écueil. That ancestral record predates the Élodie D. brand by centuries; it does not identify a seventeenth-century Champagne company bearing the present name.

Élodie succeeded her mother Marie-Christine in 1997. In 2014 she refocused on the family estate and created the Élodie D. identity from her name, Desbordes. The producer describes four consecutive generations in which women alone headed the domaine. These modern milestones distinguish inherited viticulture from the launch of the current label.

In 2004 Élodie returned to barrel vinification, using previously filled Burgundy barrels of 228 litres. Four years later she commissioned barrels from oak grown in the family’s La Vovette woodland at Écueil. The winery also uses 72-hectolitre foudres for reserve wines, alongside steel and egg-shaped tanks.

The present estate comprises 9.14 hectares in thirty-three parcels across Écueil, Chamery, Sermiers and Faverolles-et-Coemy. Pinot Noir accounts for 63% of planting, Chardonnay 22%, Meunier 12% and Pinot Gris 3%. Pressing remains close to the Écueil vines, while must travels to avenue Ernest Vallé in Épernay for vinification. The Champagne bar at 71–73 avenue de Champagne is another separate address.

VDC and HVE certifications were awarded in 2017. Organic conversion began in 2021, leading to certified organic grapes from the 2024 harvest. Élodie’s current vineyard account then records her decision to stop the two earlier certifications. This sequence gives specific dates to the estate’s cultivation changes.

Thirty-three plots around Écueil

The official vineyard account gives 9.14 hectares in 33 plots across Écueil, Chamery, Sermiers and Faverolles-et-Coemy. The estate planting is 63% Pinot Noir, 22% Chardonnay, 12% Meunier and 3% Pinot Gris. Élodie D. Champagnes use a selection of the estate’s Écueil Premier Cru parcels; the page excludes Faverolles-et-Coemy from that particular Champagne selection.

Organic conversion began in 2021, and the grapes became certified organic from the 2024 harvest. Élodie then chose to end the earlier VDC and HVE vineyard certifications, awarded in 2017. Her current vineyard page describes this sequence explicitly: older tourism copy listing all three certifications simultaneously does not reflect the producer’s latest account.

Pressing in Écueil, vinification in Épernay

Pressing takes place close to the vineyards at the Écueil property. The must then travels to Avenue Ernest Vallé in Épernay for vinification. Élodie returned to oak barrels in 2004, using previously filled 228-litre Burgundy barrels; in 2008 she commissioned barrels from oak grown in her own La Vovette woodland at Écueil.

The winery account describes reserve wines in 72-hectolitre oak foudres and ageing of base wines for 6–18 months, according to their development. Other vessels include egg-shaped tanks, stainless steel and new or previously used oak. Tasting the still base wines begins in January after harvest, tank by tank and barrel by barrel. This production site is distinct from the Champagne bar at the eastern end of the Avenue.

Family names and single-parcel cuvées

The Festive range names Cuvée Pierre, formerly Tradition Brut; Cuvée Marie, formerly Tradition Demi-Sec; Cuvée Louis; Cuvée Paul; and Cuvée Rose. The first three are listed as Premier Cru blends, while Paul and Rose are identified as single-variety Premier Cru wines. The product list does not specify that a routine bar tasting includes all five.

The single-parcel range includes Belle Âme 2011, a 100% Pinot Noir Champagne aged under cork; Pinot Gris 2018, made entirely from that less common variety; and Résurgence 2007 and 2012, both 100% Pinot Noir. Élodie’s range account links these wines to particular sites and sandy soils around Écueil, rather than presenting every cuvée as an identical three-grape blend.

Bulles & Bonheur at 71–73

Élodie bought the nineteenth-century mansion in 1998 and renovated it in 2016 for the Champagne bar. The producer’s history says it was previously a home of Eugène Mercier and his family, and later housed the Servagnat family and Resistance activity in its cellars during the Second World War.

Bulles & Bonheur serves both Élodie D. and Champagne Desbordes-Amiaud, her mother’s wines. It also takes reservations for guided vineyard and winery discoveries. Use the Réserver section linked from the producer’s website or telephone +33 3 53 63 10 10. No cellar-tour price or fixed duration is invented for an appointment whose current booking terms are not published on these pages.

Prodip Turi’s restaurant

The restaurant opened in August 2023. Its named formats are the five-course Menu Élodie, seven-course Menu Fabrice and three-course lunchtime Menu Rose. The tourist-office listing identifies chef Prodip Turi and quotes €40 for the three-course lunch, €85 for five courses and €125 for seven; the respective pairing versions are €145 and €215 (checked October 2026).

The listed service days are Thursday–Monday, including Sunday evening, with Tuesday and Wednesday closed. Book the restaurant at 73 avenue de Champagne through its own reservation link or +33 3 53 63 10 10. The bar tasting, restaurant menu and vineyard appointment are separate purchases; a meal price is not used as the cost of a winery visit.

La Demeure d’Élodie and the cellar spa

La Demeure d’Élodie’s 86-square-metre Fleurs apartment at number 73 accommodates up to six people. Rooms and suites were added at number 71 in summer 2023, including suites with whirlpool baths. The producer describes the accommodation as ten minutes on foot from central Épernay. Room prices come from the accommodation calendar and are not inferred from a restaurant menu.

The spa offers a hammam, salt-wall sauna, jacuzzi, swim spa and massages. Its published private format is for 1–8 adults with one-, two- or three-hour packages; treatments and activities require reservations. The Épernay accommodation guide provides Booking.com links, while the Avenue walk connects numbers 71–73 with Mercier and Comtesse Lafond nearby.

Access and facilities

Élodie D. links three places: the Écueil vineyards and presses, the Avenue Ernest Vallé winery in Épernay, and Bulles & Bonheur at 71–73 avenue de Champagne. The Avenue mansion contains the Champagne bar, restaurant and La Demeure d’Élodie accommodation; vineyard and winery visits are arranged separately by reservation.

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Official booking and sources

Open the house’s visitor page for the named venue. Visitor information and quoted tariffs reviewed 23 October 2026.

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