Champagne Dhondt-Grellet was established in 1986 in the village of Flavigny, just outside Avize, when Éric Dhondt and Édith Grellet began estate bottling their own wines. The Dhondt family, originally Belgian farmers, had acquired vineyards in the Sézannais in the 1960s, while the Grellet family is rooted in Cuis and Cramant. Starting with just 5 acres, the domaine has since expanded to roughly three times its original size. In 2012, the couple’s son Adrien took over winemaking at the age of 22. Today, he works alongside his sister Alice in continuing to shape the domaine’s direction, refining its focus on Chardonnay grown across the Côte des Blancs. A defining pillar of the domaine’s identity is their perpetual reserve system maintained since the beginning; each year, a portion is drawn for tirage, replenished with the new vintage, and returned to barrels on the lees before moving back to tanks ahead of harvest to ensure continuous barrel use and stylistic continuity. Adrien Dhondt farms according to a non-certified organic and biodynamic philosophy, which he describes as “peasant viticulture,” focused on cultivating living soils and minimizing intervention.