Winemaker

Joseph Laurenti

Founder

Discipline: Winemaker
Based in: Les Riceys, France
Venue: Champagne Laurenti · Winery

i. Biography

From the outset, the house is defined by a narrow brief, and that focus is the point: Champagne Laurenti, founded in 1923 in Les Riceys, France, has built its identity around champagne made only from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grown on its own estate. That constraint gives the style its shape. It reads as specific rather than broad, grounded in place and carried by traditional, rigorous vineyard management kept in balance with nature. The approach is measured, but it is not tentative; it comes from a house that knows exactly what it makes and keeps to that line year after year.

The Essentials - House: Champagne Laurenti. - Place: Les Riceys, France. - Founded: 1923. - Specialty: champagne from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. - Vineyard approach: own-estate fruit, traditional management, and a rigorous balance with nature.

Signature

Joseph Laurenti’s signature wines map the house style across a few distinct expressions, each one staying within the same lineage while shifting the emphasis. Grande Cuvée Rosé gives the range a softer, more luminous register, while Pinot Noir and Chardonnay Grande Cuvée points directly to the two grapes at the center of the estate’s identity. Laurenti Brut Champagne sits as the standard bearer of the house, and Grande Cuvée Tradition reads as continuity — a wine named for steadiness and attention to its own history. Grande Cuvée Blanche completes the set with a name that suggests brightness and clarity, keeping the portfolio tightly defined and aligned to the estate’s chosen path. Taken together, these wines follow the same disciplined philosophy that has guided Champagne Laurenti since 1923: no excess, no drift from identity, only close work with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the estate itself. Within that limited frame, the house finds its shape. Each bottle extends the same exchange between vineyard and cellar, between tradition and precision, between nature and exacting human work.

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