The Franck Bonville Champagne House traces its history back to 1900, when Alfred Bonville acquired plots only a few years after the ravages of phylloxera on the Champagne vineyard.
Despite an unstable economic situation in the 1930s, Alfred Bonville persevered and acquired in 1937 in the heart of the village of Avize a winegrower's house including a press, tuns and a 19th century cellar.
Following the end of the Second World War and the liberation of production tools, Franck Bonville, son of Alfred, developed both the marketing of cuvées in his name and the area of the estate, located on the emblematic Côte des Blancs.
From the 1970s, his son Gilles and his wife instilled a gradual modernisation of winemaking infrastructure.
Representing the fourth generation of this family house, Olivier Bonville joined his parents in 1996. With several experiences as an oenologist within estates in Corsica and Germany, Olivier advocates a sustainable management of the vineyard, producing cuvées that dignify in particular the brilliance and richness of Chardonnay.
