Ruinart was founded in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart, making it the oldest establish Champagne house. Nicolas’s uncle was Dom Thierry Ruinart and his dream was to produce sparkling wines, but French laws of the time stated that wines must be transported barrels making distant selling of champagne impossible. In 1728 French law changed authoring wine being able to be sold in bottles. Ever the entrepreneur Nicolas quickly founded his wine business and within 4 months of starting producing they were selling what was then marketed as ‘wine with bubbles’. Nicolas’s business origins was as a cloth merchant but such was the success of ‘wine with bubbles’ within 6 years Nicolas had exited the cloth trade to focus on his champagne business.
Ruinart has a uniquely bell shaped bottle, completely different to anything else in champagne. When champagne is produced the 2nd fermentation occurs within the bottle, this is how the sparkling bubbles are produced, and some say the shape of the Ruinart glass adds to its taste.
Ruinart gifts can be created with the picture personalised option where we take your image and print it directly onto the bottle. Champagne personalised with a full colour printed image, immense detailed up to a million pixels per inch. There is a limit on size of bottles with this process but we can still offer picture personalised Ruinart blanc, picture personalised Ruinart Rose and picture personalised Ruinart Blanc de blanc.
All Ruinart champagnes are available on next day delivery, why not complete your purchase by adding a wooden gift box, the half bottles will fit in sliding lid wooden box the hinged lid wooden box, the 75cl bottles will fit in the large sliding lid wooden boxes.