Premier cru · Montagne de Reims
Strictly limited to 500 members · waitlist beyondAeterna Custodia Club — a private house for Champagne, Armagnac and exceptional hospitality. Strictly limited to 500 members. $2,000 / year or $500 / quarter.
The U.S. Club is currently in its launch phase. No payments are accepted at this time — we are gathering expressions of interest for Founding Membership.
Le Modèle
Champagne retail asks what you want to buy. A club asks who you want to sit with. For $2,000 a year, or $500 a quarter, you hold a membership inside a small French house that ordinarily has no door for Americans.
Auguste Rèmes was born from the meeting of two people: Damien, heir to a line of winemakers on the Montagne de Reims, who knows every gesture from vine to bottle; and Julien, an aesthete of luxury who gives each cuvée its form. Your membership gives you four curated Champagne allocations per membership year, with each allocation consisting of one six-bottle case, and the quiet privilege of knowing them.
The Club owns its Champagne inventory. Membership provides access to Club products and experiences and does not confer ownership of Club assets or financial interests.
"A haute couture Champagne, conceived as a work of art, made for rare moments and demanding palates."
— Maison Auguste Rèmes, Montagne de Reims
Member Privileges
One six-bottle case of Auguste Rèmes premier cru Champagne each quarter — four cases a year — shipped in standard 750 ml format. Magnums and bespoke cuvées sit outside the quarterly case; they are quoted separately and billed as a supplement.
The Club intends to acquire and own selected single-estate Bas-Armagnac casks, subject to producer relationships, availability and final terms. This is a potential future project, without commitment to any Armagnac allocation or delivery.
The first 40 members will form our Founding Member community, with a dedicated program of private Club experiences in Miami and France — two in each, every year. Travel to France is paid by participating members. Hospitality for later members follows Club programming and final terms.
Text the house. Ask which cuvée to open tonight, request a magnum engraved for an anniversary, arrange lunch at the domaine in August. Answered by Damien and Julien, never by a call center.
Club tables, tastings and private moments reserved for members, with the concierge arranging the details around your calendar.
A potential future Armagnac project, without commitment. Any milestone benefit at Years 5, 10 and 15 would depend on final producer agreements and regulatory approvals.
Savoir-faire
The luxury of Champagne is not only in the bubble. Our bottles are dressed in hand-worked tin — vine leaves, grapes, and lettering struck in metal by a French atelier, so that the bottle survives the evening it was opened for. Every piece is slightly its own.
Sur mesure
Personalized Champagne with custom tin labels, created for private celebrations, Founding Member occasions, milestone dinners, partner events and special Club moments. Creative preparation and production are handled in France; U.S. handling remains subject to the applicable licensed U.S. operating structure. The wine stays Auguste Rèmes premier cru; the ornament becomes yours. Magnum and bespoke requests sit outside the quarterly caisse: each one is quoted individually and billed as a supplement to your dues.
"A bottle is given. A bottle with your name struck in metal is remembered."
Because every piece is struck by hand in the French atelier, no two commissions are identical. Minimums and lead times vary by season; the concierge will reply with a detailed quote and production calendar.
Acquisition & Member Rewards
The Club intends to develop relationships with selected single-estate Bas-Armagnac producers in Gascony and, subject to final terms, acquire selected eaux-de-vie and casks for the Club's Long Cellar program. Nothing is blended to a house style and nothing is made twice.
The sacred vine. Premier cru from the Montagne de Reims, pinot noir at its heart, dressed in custom tin labels — the cercle is served before any allocation reaches the trade.
A rosé of quiet intensity from the same premier cru slopes, produced in strictly limited numbers and offered to members first, magnums included.
Tin-labelled magnums and vintage releases of both cuvées, held back from trade and divided among members at each release.
A potential future project for long-standing members, without commitment to any allocation or delivery.
Nos racines
The Montagne de Reims is a forested plateau rising to 286 metres, its slopes planted on chalk. The forest regulates the heat; cold air falls to the plain at night while warm air slides down over the vines, ripening even the north-facing coteaux.
Pinot noir holds sixty percent of the surface here — vigorous, generous, at home in limestone. It gives our wines their frame: firm, fresh, and perfumed. Harvests run 15 to 35 hectolitres per hectare across some two thousand hectares, from Écueil and Chigny-les-Roses to Verzenay, Trépail, and Bouzy-Ambonnay.
The house takes its name from Augustus, who planted the first Roman vines on these sacred lands, and from the Remi, the people who guarded them. That double inheritance — imperial and earthly — is what we pour.
The Calendar
Access
Members receive a private channel to Damien, Julien, and the chefs and growers we work with. Ask what to open tonight. Request a magnum for an anniversary. Arrange lunch on the Montagne when you're in France in August. It is the part of the club members tell their friends about.
Join the ClubBeyond the case
Members may also access additional bottles from our French Champagne selection at preferential member pricing, separate from the Champagne included in their membership. These purchases are optional, member-initiated and additional to the 24 bottles of the membership year, subject to applicable U.S. alcohol operating, state and fulfillment requirements.
Logistics & Compliance
Champagne is intended to be consolidated for U.S. alcohol operations through the Club's licensed operating partners, subject to applicable requirements and final operating arrangements. Park Street is intended to support the Club's U.S. alcohol operating infrastructure, subject to final scope and contract.
U.S. alcohol logistics are intended to be coordinated through the Club's licensed operating partners, subject to applicable requirements and final operating arrangements.
Park Street is intended to support the Club's U.S. alcohol operating infrastructure, subject to final scope and contract.
Domestic delivery through licensed U.S. partners, where permitted, to adults aged 21 or over, delivered against adult signature and photo-ID verification.
Age & compliance
Membership and delivery are reserved for adults aged 21 or over. Every case is delivered against adult signature and photo-ID verification, in states where delivery is permitted by applicable law.
Voix du cercle
No published notes yet — yours could be the first.
$2,000 annual membership
Applications are reviewed weekly and admitted by referral from our partner network. When the five hundredth membership is taken, admissions close and an official waitlist opens — candidates are admitted, in order, only as places are released. The $2,000 annual membership fee is settled by card or bank transfer.
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