An Invitation to Join ‘The Champagne Society’

JOIN THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIETY

Subscribe to our bimonthly Champagne Club. Please, call us at 248-398-0030 or email elie@eliewine.com

As a member of The Champagne Society, you’re in a select community of like-minded folks who appreciate the exceptional in life and recognize that sparkling wine is a superlative among man’s culinary creations. A bottle of Champagne is selected for you bimonthly. You will be drinking some of the best Champagne ever produced.

All selected wines are from passionate grower-producers or small houses deeply connected to the subtleties of each of their vine parcels and who believe that wine is made in the vineyard. Many of these wines are highly allocated, many bought directly, and we quite often only have access to a few cases of a particular cuvée.

As a member of The Champagne Society expect the following benefits:

• The selected Champagne quite often is not available in any other wine shop in Michigan and only in a few places, if any, in the country. We compete with savvy wine buyers in the European and the Far East markets to secure some of the allocations from these sought-after makers.

• The selection is released every other month and ready for pickup by the 10th of that month, or shipped if you prefer. Expect a new bottle in February, April, June, August, October and December.

• The price is always less than $110 and reflects 15% discount of the store price when we have additional quantities to sell to non-members. Champagne available, members may purchase any number of additional bottles at the same discounted price.

• We notify you via email when the installment selection is released in a newsletter that profiles the producer and the cuvée chosen. The newsletter is also posted on www.eliewine.com . Only then your credit card is charged and you are sent a separate purchase receipt.

• You can pause or cancel your membership at any time.

September 22, 2025

A Small Seat at Champagne’s Organic Table

The Association des Champagnes Biologiques (ACB) has been quietly shaping Champagne’s future since 2009, uniting growers who farm organically in one of the most disease-prone climates on earth. This fall, Elie Wine Co. became the first American member—a modest milestone that feels less like a trophy than a handshake across the Atlantic.

The ACB’s members are farmers first, winemakers second, and their bottles are already familiar to Elie Wine Co. clients. Aurélien Laherte channels Chavot’s vineyards into precise, expressive parcels. Benoît Marguet’s Ambonnay Champagnes are biodynamic firebrands. Lacourte-Godbillon brings grower intimacy to the Montagne de Reims. Fleury, pioneers of biodynamics since 1989, continue to prove what’s possible. Clandestin, the work of Benoît Doussot and Etienne Calsac, pushes the edges with razor-cut wines. And alongside them, Hubert–Noiret and Pascal Lejeune farm and craft with a quiet persistence that gives voice to their corners of the Marne.

To be counted among them as a merchant-member is humbling. It affirms that telling their story—listening, learning, and placing their wines in curious hands—can play its own small role in sustaining the movement.

Champagne, after all, is not only about labels and luxury. It’s about vines clinging to chalk, farming without shortcuts, and the patience to let time and soil speak. To sit at this table, even from afar, is an honor.

Elie Wine Co.

Member of the Association des Champagnes Biologiques

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Posted on 2025.08.05 in France, The Champagne Society, Champagne