Perrier-Jouët — Champagne Since 1811

Few names in Champagne carry as long a history as Perrier-Jouët. The house was founded in 1811 in Épernay, at the heart of the region, by Nicolas Perrier and Adélaïde Jouët — a young couple whose names still shape the identity of the maison today.

Two centuries later, the maison remains one of the great addresses of the Avenue de Champagne, where its cellars run deep beneath the town.

The anemone and the Belle Époque

Perrier-Jouët is inseparable from Art Nouveau. In 1902, the glass artist Émile Gallé painted the now-famous anemone onto a bottle for the maison, and that design became the Belle Époque cuvée admired around the world. In Épernay, the Maison Belle Époque keeps the spirit of that era alive in original interiors, which makes the address on the Avenue de Champagne a destination in its own right.

The house style is built on Chardonnay: floral, precise, shaped for tension rather than weight. That character explains why the great cuvées rest in the cellars of Épernay for years before release, and why the most sought-after bottles are allocated long before they are offered.

Rarity is part of the grammar of the maison. Certain cuvées and older vintages never appear freely on the open market; they move quietly through private channels, between cellars and long-standing relationships.

This is where our work begins. At Circle 8, we give our clients access to exclusive bottles of Perrier-Jouët that are normally not available for purchase — whether to mark an occasion, to complete a cellar, or to taste a champagne in its rarest form.

Should a particular bottle be of interest, write to us at roger.schaer@circle8.ch. We will take it from there — discreetly, and with one point of contact.