| Winery Location: | Aÿ |
| Year Established: | 1838 |
Vineyard Holdings
42 ha
Top Wines Produced & Inaugural Vintages
- Blanc de Blancs Millésimé: Sourced from Avize and Le Mesnil-sur-Oger.
- Brut Rosé Millésimé: 100% Pinot Noir.
- Brut Millésimé: Approximately 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Chardonnay.
- Cuvée William Deutz: Pinot Noir dominant with approximately 35% Chardonnay and 10% Meunier. Inaugural vintage 1959.
- Cuvée William Deutz Rosé: Primarly Pinot Noir with some Chardonnay.
- Amour de Deutz Blanc de Blancs: 100% Chardonnay from Le-Mesnil-sur-Oger, Avize, and Villers-Marmery. Inaugural vintage 1993.
Average Total Production
- 1,920,000 bottles
Summary
Deutz was created by two Germans, William Deutz and Pierre Gelderman. Deutz had started his winemaking career at Bollinger and decided to move on when finding an investor in Gelderman. The firm had great success in the the nineteenth-century and the two families ran the firm together together into the twentieth-century. The first half of the latter brought hard times to the estate, with the Deutz cellars being destroyed by the Champagne riots of 1911, followed by World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. Despite production being cut to a quarter of its size, the Deutz house made it through World War II with the Lallier-Deutz family still at the helm. The firm continued to grow under the leadership of André Lallier-Deutz who in the 1980s expanded the business enterprise to inculde the Rhône negociant Delas and sparkling wine ventures in New Zealand and California. When the Champagne market crashed in the early 1990s they sold 63% of the firm to Louis Roederer. Lallier-Deutz continued to manage the firm until he retired in 1996. Since that time, Fabrice Rosset has managed the winery, with André’s son Jean-Marc acting as export-manager, and Michel Davesne as Chef de Cave. Deutz is a négociant manipulant.
Style & Vinification Techniques
The vineyards that they own make up just twenty percent of their needs for production. The Brut Classic is a blend of equal parts Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Meunier and it generally contains between 20 to 25% reserve wine. The firm keeps their reserve wine in concrete tanks for a maximum of four years. There is no oak used at the Deutz firm. The wines range in time spent on lees from three years for the Brut Classic to eight years for the Cuvée William Deutz.
Producer Website: Deutz