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In 1936 his son Jean
Cattier married Nelly. They had 3 children : Jean-Louis, Liliane and Jean-Jacques. They made the activity grow, shared their passion and then passed the company to their children. Jean-Louis took charge of the vineyard in the early 1960s, after having done his military
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merchants were trying to keep a modest activity in these tough conditions, but they couldn't get grapes in the nearby vineyards. In order not to lose his 1916 paltry harvest, Jean
Cattier decided to produce his own champagne. The first bottles were released in 1918 to celebrate the end of
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region. He restored this 2.2 hectares parcel that was destroyed during the wars. He produced his first wine out of this parcel in 1952, his first bottling in 1953 and his first sale in 1956. It was, at the time, one of the two
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cellars is estimated by the number of steps, since no one has bothered to measure it. With their 119 steps (27 meters), the cellars of
Champagne Cattier are the deepest ones, just before those of the House
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In 2011 Alexandre
Cattier took over from his father, Jean-Jacques Cattier. He and his cousins, Agathe and Marie, daughters of respectively Liliane and Jean-Louis, are still running the company today.
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Cattier's cellars have the particularity of being dug on 3 levels. Each level is showing characteristics of a specific era :
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the cellars were used as shelters from the bombings.
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