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The Vesprée manor and its press house on the slope of the Montagne de Reims, vines falling towards the plain as the evening light turns gold

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Maison Vesprée

Champagne Villers-Vesprée 1847

The evening, bottled.

Start the estate tourHow it was madeWith the chef de cave, sound on

19:05 Golden hour

Use the left and right arrow keys to move from late afternoon to nightfall.

IThe estate

From the vines
to the chalk.

Hélène Sorvaux, chef de cave, walks you through the Maison as the evening falls: the vines, the château, the press house, the cuverie, the crayères twenty-eight metres below, and the salon at night.

Drag or use the arrow keys to look around, Enter to walk on, N and P for the next and previous place, Space to play or pause.

Hélène Sorvauxchef de cave

    A guided tour with the chef de cave

    Six settings, from the vines to the salon. Sound on when you start.

    Every place and voice made with Scenario

    In this place

      What Hélène says

      Drag to look around. With a keyboard: the arrows turn, Enter walks on, N and P go to the next and previous place, Space plays or pauses.

      The Maison Vesprée emblem: an eight-pointed evening star rising over the engraved horizon of the Montagne de Reims, inside a guilloché ring
      The emblem The evening star, eight points, over one engraved line of the Montagne de Reims. It marks the neck medallion, the muselet plaque, the cork and the gift case.

      IIThe house

      A house named for the evening.

      Maison Vesprée was founded in 1847 by Aurélien and Madeleine Vesprée at Villers-Vesprée, on the northern slope of the Montagne de Reims. The fifth generation farms 62 hectares, most of them Pinot Noir, and ages every bottle in chalk crayères 28 metres below the manor, along four kilometres of galleries.

      La vesprée is Old French for the evening, the hour when the light turns gold. The family has always pressed at that hour: the day's grapes come in before sunset and go to the press as night falls. The house calls it le pressurage du soir.

      À l'heure où tout s'éclaire.

      Maison Vesprée is invented. The house, the village, the family and every fact on this page are fiction, held consistent across every image.

      The house codes

      Midnight blue for the ground, antique gold for the foil, chalk for the paper. A Didone for the house, a Garamond for its voice.

      • Bleu Vespréemidnight dusk blue#1C2640
      • Or du Soirantique gold, foil#C8A45E
      • Craiechalk ivory, paper#EFE9DC
      • Rose du Couchantsunset rose#D8A596
      • Noir de Cavecellar black#121212
      • Glassantique green-blackglossy
      Wordmark and cuvée names Bodoni Moda
      VESPRÉE
      Secondary lines Cormorant SC
      Maison · Champagne · 1847
      French lines Bodoni Moda Italic
      À l'heure où tout s'éclaire.
      Text Cormorant Garamond
      The Vesprée family brings the day's harvest in before sunset and presses it as night falls.

      IIIThe bottle

      Turn the bottle.
      Change the light.

      One bottle family for five cuvées. The labels on this bottle are the same artwork every image of the house was built from.

      Drag to turn. Arrow keys turn it.

      Cuvée
      Light
      Format

      Magnum: Heure Dorée only.

      Heure Dorée

      Brut, non-vintage

      60% Pinot Noir, 25% Chardonnay, 15% Meunier

      Chalk ivory arch, dusk-blue band, gold foil.

      The anatomy of a bottle.

      Heure Dorée Brut, 75 cl, taken apart in Blender from the reference model. Every part is at true size except the muselet, shown at 2.2 times.

      IVTasting

      Five cuvées,
      noted by the chef de cave.

      1 of 5

      VThe year of the Maison

      From the January frost
      to the finished bottle.

      Eight moments of the Champagne year. One of them belongs to Vesprée alone.

      1 of 8
      1. A vine grower pruning in the frost at dawn, a brazier of vine cuttings smoking behind him

        I · January

        La taille

        Each vine is pruned back to a few buds in the frost. The cuttings burn in a wheeled brazier that follows the pruners down the row.

      2. Budburst before dawn, frost candles burning between the rows

        II · April

        Le débourrement

        The first buds open. On frost nights, candles burn between the rows to hold the air above freezing until sunrise.

      3. The discreet flower of the vine in long June light, a bee on the cover crop

        III · June

        La floraison

        The vine flowers for about ten days, discreet and faintly scented. The harvest will come some hundred days later.

      4. Hand harvest at golden hour: pickers laughing over small crates of black Pinot Noir

        IV · September

        Les vendanges

        Every bunch is picked by hand into small crates, so the berries reach the press whole and unbroken.

      5. The evening pressing in the old press house: lamplight, the first juice running pale gold into a stone basin

        V · September, at nightfall The house ritual

        Le pressurage du soir

        The day's harvest is pressed as night falls, in the cool of the evening. From black Pinot Noir, the first juice runs pale gold.

      6. Hélène Sorvaux, chef de cave, raising a glass of still wine at a table of reserve wines

        VI · Winter

        L'assemblage

        Hélène Sorvaux, chef de cave, tastes the still wines and the Réserve du Soir, and composes each cuvée glass by glass.

      7. A riddler's hands turning bottles on a wooden pupitre in the candle-lit chalk

        VII · In the chalk

        Le remuage

        After years on their lees, the bottles are turned and tilted a little each day until the sediment gathers in the neck.

      8. Dégorgement à la volée in the cellar, a spray of foam leaving the bottle's neck

        VIII · The last step

        Dégorgement à la volée

        The neck is opened by hand and the sediment flies out with a little foam. The dosage, the cork and the muselet follow.

      VIThe campaign

      The evening, bottled.

      Golden hour travels west. Wherever it reaches, someone opens a Vesprée: a Haussmann balcony, an omakase counter, a penthouse terrace, a chalet in the snow.

      Every evening, everywhere.

      Eight markets, one evening occasion each, the same bottle in every frame, in the three formats a brand team delivers.

      One bottle, every surface.

      What a brand team delivers in a season, built from the same assets.

        VIIHow it was made

        A whole Maison,
        made with Scenario.

        The identity, the bottle, the estate in 360, the year, the campaign and the voice. The making-of shows every step, the models behind it, and the prompts, a press kit and an agent skill to download.

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        How it was made

        A whole Maison,
        made with Scenario.

        An identity, a bottle family, an estate in three lights and in 360, a year of the vineyard, a campaign and a voice. Every piece was generated or finished with Scenario models, directed through Scenario MCP.

        The process, in pictures

        Step by step

        1. 1

          The identity

          The emblem was chosen in a shoot-out of four directions, then sharpened and vectorized. The wordmark is set in Bodoni Moda. The five arched labels are composed from generated ornaments and PATINA paper and foil materials, with every word typeset so the name is always spelled right.

          With GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, Recraft Crisp Upscale, Scenario Vectorize, PATINA Material

        2. 2

          The reference bottle

          One Champenoise bottle, modelled in Blender with those labels, foil and muselet. Its packshots are the reference for every image in which the bottle appears. The atelier turns the same model in three light worlds.

          With Blender for the model and the packshots, HDRi Skybox for the light worlds

        3. 3

          Native, then label-matched

          Each scene is generated with the bottle in it, so the glass carries the scene's light and shadow, its label left blank. The exact label of the reference packshot then goes on: in the key visuals, composited and relit by the blank label's own light; in the other surfaces, by an image edit with the packshot as reference.

          With GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst for the scenes and the edits; the label composite is a script outside Scenario (Python, OpenCV)

        4. 4

          The estate in three lights

          One composition of the estate, edited into late afternoon and nightfall with the framing locked, and a clip of the evening falling between them. The stills were recomposed for phone screens.

          With GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, Seedance 2.5, Scenario Gemini Reframe

        5. 5

          The year of the vineyard

          Eight chapters of the Champagne year, checked against the real method, each with a short loop that returns to its first frame.

          With GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, Seedance 2.5

        6. 6

          The estate in 360, and its voice

          Fourteen seamless panoramas, from the vines to the chalk, generated from the approved stills. Hélène Sorvaux's voice is cloned from her first recordings; word timings drive the captions; the ambiences and the music bed are generated too.

          With Scenario Skybox GPT, Seed Audio 1.0 Multilingual, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, Sonilo V1.1, ElevenLabs Sound Effects, ElevenLabs Music v2.5

        7. 7

          The campaign

          Eight markets, one evening occasion each, in 16:9, 4:5 and 9:16, then the surfaces a brand team delivers, each label-matched to the reference bottle.

          With GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

        8. 8

          Every stage scored

          Each hero still, panorama and key visual was reviewed with Scenario asset analysis against a creative director's brief. Anything under eight out of ten was made again.

          With Scenario asset analysis

        9. 9

          Directed through Scenario MCP

          Coding agents chose the models, ran the jobs and kept a ledger of every call. The table below counts the work on this page, including takes that were not kept.

          With Scenario MCP

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