In 1886, Henri Grandin, a notary and wine lover, married Madamoiselle Pouillet de Limesle, whose family owned the cellars of ‘la Bouvraie’ in the old royal glassworks of Louis XIV, below a splendid château at Ingrandes-sur-Loire.
This region is known as “le Jardin de la France”, named as a tribute to a gentle and peaceful area that the kings of France had made their summer playground for centuries.
In 1886 Henri Grandin launched the “méthode champenoise” which still bears his name. The Grandin property today still consists of this stunningly picturesque Château and its cellars, producing an excellent quality in the purest tradition of the méthode champenoise (now called “méthode traditionnelle”).