NV Champagne Deutz Brut Classic - French Champagne with German Roots

 

I have been interested in the German roots of French Champagne for a while and have written about it here: French Champagne Houses and German Roots

I covered in the article: Ruinart-Mueller, Bollinger, Mumm, Krug, Veuve Cliquot-Ponsardin/ Eduard Werle. 

One major oversight was Heidsieck, see here:

The Heidsieck Champagnes – French Champagne Houses with German Roots

 
Another one was Champagne Deutz. It was only at the end of the 1900s that the German families Deutz and Geldermann sold it to the Rouzaud family, who also own the Louis Roederer Champagne House and several other high-end wine estates.

Maison Deutz&Geldermann - Champagne Deutz

Champagne Deutz was borne out of Maison Deutz&Geldermann at the end of the 20th century. Maison Deutz&Geldermann was a renowned Champagne house founded in

1838 in Aÿ, France, by two Germans from Aachen, Wilhelm Deutz and Hubert Geldermann. Maison Deutz&Geldermann existed and was run by the Deutz and Geldmann families until the end of the 20th Century, when it was split into two separate companies, Deutz and Geldermann, and sold the Rouzaud family and the German company Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien

Maison Deutz&Geldermann remained a family-run business for generations, with successive members of both the Deutz and Geldermann families managing the operations. Notably, the bond between the families was strengthened when Alfred Geldermann, the son of Pierre-Hubert, married Marie Deutz, William's daughter. 

 

From the beginning, the main market of Maison Deutz&Geldermann was Germany. In 1904, for tax reasons, Maison Deutz & Geldermann established a wine cellar in Hagenau, at the time Alsace, where they made Champagne using still wine from the Champagne. 

 

After the end of the Second World War, Hagenau became French and Maison Deutz&Geldermann moved its Alsace branch to Breisach in Baden/ Germany.  

 

50 years later, at the end of the 20th century, a process started that eventually ended in a complete split of the French and the German parts of Maison Deutz & Gelderman into two separate companies, Deutz and Geldermann. The French Champagne house, now known simply as Champagne Deutz, was acquired in 1993 by the Rouzaud family, who also own the Louis Roederer Champagne house. In 2003, Geldermann was acquired by the German company Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien.

 

The Rouzaud famiy holdings includes in addition to Louis Roederer and Deutz such estates as Delas Frères in the Rhône Valley, Ramos Pinto in Portugal, Domaines Ott in Provence and Châteaux Pichon Comtesse in Bordeaux.

 

Today, Champagne Deutz, with a production of 1.5. million bottles per year, is one of the smaller Champagne Houses. The annual output of Moët & Chandon, the largest Champagne producer, is 30 million bottles. Over in Germany, Geldermann produces 2.5 million bottles per year, all méthode champenoise. 

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