Meet the other Deschamps

He may not have won the World Cup, but Hervé Deschamps can at least boast of being the driving force behind Champagne Perrier-Jouet for the last 25 years

Hervé Deschamps

Hervé Deschamps has been the face and the technical powerhouse behind Champagne’s most dapper Grand Marques House, Champagne Perrier-Jouet, for 25 years this year.

Deschamps is the Cellar Master, a role spanning both chief winemaker and ambassador of the champagne house. His vision of what the house stands for, and what the wine should attempt to project, is paramount.

In the three centuries of its existence, Perrier-Jouet has had only seven Cellar Masters, ...