Who is Cédric Bouchard and how did he create the Roses de Jeanne estate?
Cédric Bouchard is a Champagne winemaker who founded his estate in 2000 in Celles-sur-Ource, in the Aube, after training at the Beaune viticulture school and gaining experience as a sommelier and wine merchant in Paris. Upon returning to his home village, he chose to break away from the codes of the grandes maisons and draw inspiration from the Burgundian model. The name "Roses de Jeanne" is a tribute to his grandmother Jeanne, and a reference to the rose bushes that lined the estate's historic plot, Les Ursules. Named best winemaker in Champagne in 2008 by the Gault Millau, Cédric Bouchard is today an essential figure in the Champagne revival.
