Until now, the Moët Hennessy group (LVMH) and its twenty-five houses (Hennessy, Veuve Clicquot, Moët & Chandon, Dom Perignon, etc.) mainly grew vines. This time, a research center emerged like a mushroom from the Champagne plain, to the south-east of Épernay. The square-shaped building - a glass, metal and concrete structure half-buried in an earthen dike - designed two years ago by the architect Giovanni Pace, has a total area of 4,000 m2. A budget of 20 million euros was released by the group for the erection of the building. The first equipment required an additional ten million. This would only be the beginning.
Why such an investment?
“The logic of transmission remains at the heart of Moët Hennessy's concerns
,” explains Philippe Schaus, Chairman and CEO of Moët Hennessy.
Faced with the acceleration of climatic and ecological changes, the challenge is that of the sustainability of our products and soils.
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