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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
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.

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Hélène Sorvauxchef de cave
A guided tour with the chef de cave
Every place and voice made with Scenario
Preparing the tour
The end of the tour
The bottles stay in the chalk until their evening comes.
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In this place
What Hélène says
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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-black
glossy
- 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.
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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.
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.

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.

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

III · June
La floraison
The vine flowers for about ten days, discreet and faintly scented. The harvest will come some hundred days later.

IV · September
Les vendanges
Every bunch is picked by hand into small crates, so the berries reach the press whole and unbroken.

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.

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.

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.

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.
E-commerce
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.