Champagne Gamet is a grower-producer (recoltant manipulant) with vineyards in eight hectares in three villages on both sides of the Marne River – Mardeuil on the left bank and Fleury-la-Rivière and Damery on the right bank.

Just after World War I, many small growers decided to begin their own companies in order to bottle their own Champagnes. Victoire Garnier, “Mardouillate” and Berthe Heucq, “Fleurysienne”, were two such women; this is the story of two families, from the right and left bank of the Marne, coming together.

The Garnier family were originally farmers, who expanded into tending vines in Mardeuil, located on the left bank of the Marne, bottling just 800 bottles of Champagne each year. In the 1950s, François Gamet, grandson of Victoire Garnier, came back to the estate and began to expand, planting more land and bottling more champagne.

Across the Marne, while François Gamet was expanding in Mardeuil, Berthe Heucq’s grandson Robert was growing his family’s holdings in Fleury-la-Rivière, bottling his own wines and tending vines on the right bank of the Marne. In 1993, Fabienne Heucq, Robert’s daughter, and Philippe, the son of François Gamet, met and fell in love, and since 2018, the estate has been led by their daughter Marianne – the fourth generation of this Domaine.

Marianne’s brother, Jean-François, a trained enologist currently working in Bordeaux, travels back home to assist his sister and parents with harvest, blending, and bottling, but the estate is run by Marianne.

Today, Marianne focuses on the distinctive differences between the Rive Gauche, the left bank, and the Rive Droite, the right bank, splitting the majority of the wines into two different synonymous cuvées.

The Rive Droite is a blend of holdings in Fleury-la-Rivière and Damery that have proven to work well together. Damery is a village closer to the river that has more marl in the soil, while Fleury-la-Rivière has some sand and clay over limestone, and is surrounded by forest. The holdings here on the right bank are entirely Meunier and Pinot Noir and the wine shows the warmth of Fleury (which faces south, southeast, and southwest), with the mineral backbone of limestone. Like the Rive Gauche, this is done entirely in stainless steel, offering a very interesting study on these two sides of the river.