Devaux champagne tour: visits, prices & booking

History

Devaux dates to 1846 and the brothers Jules and Auguste Devaux. Its Veuve A. Devaux identity developed through three widows whose management spans much of the following century.

Claude-Joseph Devaux, born Ducray, had been widowed in 1843. She managed Maison Vve A. Devaux with her son François-Auguste. After his death in 1879, Augusta-Maria Herbin took control and led the winery until 1895.

Marguerite Marie-Louise Devaux, born Hussenot, became the third widow to head the house in 1907. She remained in charge until her death in 1951. In 1987, Jean-Pol Auguste Devaux entrusted the brand to Union Auboise, establishing the modern link with Côte des Bar growers.

Devaux’s earlier history includes Épernay’s Avenue de Champagne. Its present visitor destination is the Manoir at Hameau de Villeneuve in Bar-sur-Seine, beside the Seine. The buildings include an eighteenth-century manor and a seventeenth-century dovecote.

The site’s park, greenhouse and historic buildings form the setting for the boutique and tasting workshops. The southern Champagne location also places the house close to the Côte des Bar Pinot Noir vineyards central to its blends.

Cuvée D reached its twenty-fifth anniversary in December 2024. The Collection D production requirements include at least five years of bottle ageing, with longer maturation for magnums. Those dates describe a modern range within the older Devaux name.

Sténopé is the collaboration with Michel Chapoutier. Its name means pinhole camera and expresses a snapshot of a harvest; the official range begins with 2008. Devaux also helped found Troyes’s Nuits de Champagne festival in 1988, providing a documented cultural association beyond its vineyard and cellar work.

The Manoir boutique and tasting workshops

The Comité Champagne directory distinguishes the public boutique, which does not need an appointment, from tasting workshops reserved in advance. Its listing links the producer’s official site and the house’s Winalist workshop page. No 2018 workshop price list is presented as a current tariff; the direct reservation page supplies the offer for the chosen date.

Access to the Manoir grounds

The estate’s eighteenth-century Manoir and seventeenth-century dovecote are described in the official boutique history. The Seine runs alongside the park. Devaux is therefore a manor-and-tasting address in the southern Champagne landscape; it is not advertised here as an underground chalk-quarry tour of the kind sold on Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims.

Côte des Bar Pinot Noir and the D Selection

Devaux describes Côte des Bar Pinot Noir as the backbone of its blends. Chardonnay supplies another part of the range, including fruit from the Côte des Blancs and Montgueux. Its D Selection is a voluntary set of vineyard specifications used by partner growers, with plot selection, vineyard follow-up and pressing close to the vines.

The producer uses first-press wine for its Classics and the cœur de cuvée for Collection D. Reserve wines mature predominantly in oak vats. Collection D bottles have a minimum five years’ ageing, rising to seven years for magnums; special bottles and Sténopé are labelled by hand. These published cellar requirements distinguish the two ranges by method and time, not simply by a more expensive-looking label.

Cuvée D and Ultra D

Cuvée D combines 55% Pinot Noir and 45% Chardonnay from separately vinified selected parcels. The official shop specifies at least five years in 75 cl bottles and seven years in 150 cl and 300 cl formats. Devaux marked the cuvée’s twenty-fifth anniversary in December 2024, identifying a particular modern chapter in the house’s much longer history.

Ultra D is the extra-brut counterpart. The official technical sheet gives 55% Pinot Noir, 45% Chardonnay, 35–40% reserve wines and dosage of 3 g/L, with a stated variation of plus or minus 1 g/L. The wine spends at least five years in bottles and seven in magnums. Its recommended 6–8°C serving range and low dosage belong to this cuvée’s sheet, not the whole Devaux portfolio.

Grande Réserve, Cœur des Bar and Sténopé

Grande Réserve is the Pinot Noir-dominant brut in the Classics range. The house pairs it with dishes including smoked-salmon tartare, veal with cream and sweetbreads with morels. Cœur des Bar Rosé is a separate wine: the official shop describes 80% Pinot Noir and 20% Chardonnay, with both red wine and rosé de saignée among its components.

Sténopé is the collaboration between Devaux and Michel Chapoutier. The official range starts with the 2008 vintage and lists later annual releases through 2014. Its name refers to a pinhole camera and the idea of a snapshot of the harvest. A Sténopé bottle purchase is separate from a Manoir workshop; a workshop reservation does not establish that this cuvée will be served.

Devaux and the wider Aube trip

Devaux was one of the two founding partners of Troyes’s Nuits de Champagne festival, created in 1988. The festival’s own partner page identifies the relationship and the Manoir’s tasting role in the Côte des Bar. That gives a named cultural connection beyond the vineyard, while the festival programme supplies its own concert dates and ticket terms.

For a southern Champagne stay, our Côte des Bar guide covers Bar-sur-Seine, Ville-sur-Arce, Les Riceys and Essoyes; the Troyes guide adds the old town and museums. The Devaux appointment remains at Hameau de Villeneuve, so book transport to that address rather than treating a Troyes hotel or concert venue as the tasting meeting point.

Access and facilities

The official Devaux contact page specifies wheelchair access except for the greenhouse and dovecote. It also says a video is available inside the Manoir, and lists car and coach parking. Those stated exclusions matter when reserving a workshop: access to the main house is not the same as access to every historic structure in the park.

Devaux’s contact page gives Tuesday–Saturday boutique hours of 10:00–12:30 and 13:30–18:00, with French, English and Spanish spoken. Visitor enquiries go to contact@champagne-devaux.fr or +33 3 25 38 63 85. The address is Hameau de Villeneuve, 10110 Bar-sur-Seine, not the separate Épernay Avenue de Champagne circuit (checked October 2026).

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