When the Great Depression hit France in 1929, a total of 25 winegrowing families decided to face up to it by joining forces. They founded the Société de Producteurs de Mailly Champagne and chose to make Champagne wines using only grapes from their village classified as Grand Cru, with the aim of glorifying this terroir already considered exceptional at the time.
The village of Mailly is surrounded by the famous Grands Crus de Ludes, Verzenay and Verzy. Maison Mailly currently has 70 hectares of vines in this village alone. The grape varieties are 75% Pinot Noir and 25% Chardonnay, planted on chalk hillside soils that benefit from adequate sunshine and enable the grapes to reach full ripeness. Today, no fewer than 80 winemakers tend the vineyards of this illustrious House of Champagne.
Below ground, Maison Mailly boasts 7 floors of cellars and 1 kilometer of chalk pits. These cellars were dug into the chalk by hand from 1929 to 1965 by the founding winemakers, who at the same time built vaulted cellars ideal for bottle aging.