NV Maison Gamet Rive Droite Blanc des Noirs Brut Champagne 750 ml

The Marne cuts a clean line through the heart of Champagne. On one side, the Rive Gauche; on the other, the Rive Droite. The river has always divided villages, families, and farming traditions—and for most of Champagne’s history, the two banks stayed separate.

Champagne Gamet is the story of what happens when they don’t.

Just after World War I, two women on opposite banks of the Marne decided to start bottling their own wine. Victoire Garnier, a farmer’s daughter in Mardeuil on the left bank, began producing Champagne—just 800 bottles a year. Across the river in Fleury-la-Rivière, Berthe Heucq was doing the same.

Both families expanded through the decades, tending their vines and building something real on either side of the water. Then, in 1993, Fabienne Heucq—Robert’s daughter, Berthe’s granddaughter—met Philippe Gamet, the grandson of Victoire’s heir François, and the two fell in love. Two families, two banks, four generations of independent history: suddenly the same estate.

Today the domaine is run by Marianne Gamet, their daughter and the fourth generation, who took over in 2018. Her brother Jean-François, a trained enologist, travels from Bordeaux each year to assist at harvest and blending. Together they farm eight hectares across three villages—organically, without herbicides or heavy machinery—with a philosophy unchanged since Victoire first filled a bottle: grow it yourself, vinify it yourself, take responsibility for every step in between.

The Rive Droite is Marianne’s right-bank cuvée, a Blanc de Noirs drawn from Fleury-la-Rivière and Damery. Fleury faces south, southeast, and southwest, giving the wine warmth and generosity; Damery sits closer to the river where the soil shifts toward marl. Beneath both villages, the clay and limestone carry the memory of an ancient sea—the fossils are still there, scattered through the soil, contributing a thread of salinity that runs through every sip. The blend is 85% Pinot Meunier with 15% Pinot Noir, vinified entirely in stainless steel to keep the terroir in focus.