Winemaker
Cyril Delannoy
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- Bethon, France
i. Biography
Cyril Delannoy has been Chef de Cave at Champagne Le Brun de Neuville since 2023, a role that places him at the nerve center of a house where precision, patience, and instinct have to work in close harmony. In Champagne, the cellar is never just a room below ground; it is where time is measured in nuance, and where every decision reverberates through the finished wine. Delannoy’s path has led him there by way of technical rigor and deep regional immersion, giving his work a quiet authority shaped as much by observation as by practice.
Coming Up
Cyril Delannoy trained at Reims before moving into the technical heart of Champagne, a progression that suggests a formation grounded in both study and the disciplined realities of the region. Reims, with its long associations with Champagne and its atmosphere of exacting craft, provided the setting for his early development, while the move into the wider technical landscape of the appellation marked the beginning of a career spent close to the decisions that define style and consistency. He worked as œnologue conseil until 2022, a position that placed him in the role of advisor and interpreter, bridging the practical and the analytical, the cellar and the vineyard, the immediate and the long view. He also worked at the station œnologique de champagne in Côte des Bar, another formative environment where technical expertise and regional character meet. These years suggest a professional life lived among samples, seasons, and the steady refinement of judgment, building the kind of cellar experience that becomes visible in the quiet confidence of a finished cuvée. Today, Cyril Delannoy is Chef de Cave of Champagne Le Brun de Neuville since 2023, bringing that background to bear on a house whose identity is shaped through cellar stewardship and continuity. The title itself carries responsibility: to guide the house style, to oversee the evolution of the wines, and to translate each harvest into something coherent and expressive. His appointment in 2023 marks the latest chapter in a career already defined by technical rigor and proximity to the working core of Champagne.
Where They Are Now
Since 2023, he has served as Chef de Cave at Champagne Le Brun de Neuville. The role places him at the center of the house’s day-to-day and long-term winemaking, where the work is often invisible but always decisive. In such a position, the rhythm is shaped by tasting, blending, monitoring, and the patient accumulation of decisions that only reveal their full meaning with time. For Delannoy, the present is clearly rooted in that demanding, meticulous space.
Profile updated July 2026
FAQ
Asked of Cyril
What is Cyril Delannoy's current role?
As of 2026, Cyril Delannoy is Chef de Cave.
Where did Cyril Delannoy train or study?
Cyril Delannoy trained at Reims.
