The foundation

A new generation

It all begins with the grapes! The grapes used for making Berivagus Originals come from five parcels in Cotes des Blancs – which make up a total of 0.32 hectars. Three of them are located in Les Mesnil sur Oger which are Les Carelles, Les Musettes, Les Hautes Voies and two of them in Oger which are Les Belles Voyes, Les Plantes d´oger.

It all begins with the grapes

Wine making of Berivagus

The age of the wines differs widely between the plots – the two oldest are planted in 1961 and 1966, one is middle-aged – planted in 1984 and the two young vineyards were planted in 2010 and 2015. This makes up a good mix of young and old vineyard to create the powerful and balanced champagnes we are after. Since we harvest as late as we possibly can we are happy to have some young vines, since they contribute with more freshness to the wine. The older vines bring more intense flavours like spices, sweeter fruit and caramel. We mix grapes from all plots for Berivagus Original.

HISTORY

Message from BERIVAGUS

The Berivagus Philosophy

Every Berivagus bottle should taste and smell exceptionally well – we aim to be world’s best champagnes. This requires listening to the wine, to the terroir and the vintage to balance the wine so it shows itself from the absolute best side given the conditions each year.

In our opinion the long-term trend in champagne has been to harvest too early and to add too little sugar – this was meant to make fresh and elegant wines. Now it is a trend among grower’s to use later harvested grapes and oak barrel maturation to create more complex and interesting wines.

Bernhard saw a clear trend in most other wine regions – all wines really sought after and admired by wine critics, sommeliers, wine collectors and himself have three things in common;