
2012 · Late Disgorged
Sparkling Héritage Brut
$75.00

Seneca Lake · Finger Lakes
A new chapter
A fifteenth-century French barn, dismantled beam by beam and raised again on the shores of Seneca Lake. A new chapter for Domaine LeSeurre.

The Project
1487 Heritage is the new home of Domaine LeSeurre on Seneca Lake — where a French barn older than the United States meets a vineyard that has been growing here for half a century.
I
It was standing in France before Columbus crossed the Atlantic — a timber-framed barn raised in 1487. We took it down beam by beam, numbered every piece, and carried it across the ocean.
Today it rises again above Seneca Lake. Not a replica, not a theme: the same oak, the same joints, re-assembled by hand. A fifteenth-century European structure, now a Finger Lakes winery.
II
Twenty acres on the lake, ten of them planted. The vines were set in the ground in 1976 — they turn fifty this year. Older vines, fewer grapes, deeper concentration.
Half Chardonnay, half Riesling: the two grapes the Finger Lakes do best, farmed by a family six generations into Champagne winemaking. French hands, New World terroir.

The estate on Seneca Lake — ten of them under vine.
Vines turning fifty this year. Half a century of roots.
Two noble grapes, in perfect balance across the parcels.
A fifteenth-century French barn, dismantled and raised anew.
Céline & Sébastien · Our Philosophy
Two children of wine — a sixth-generation Champagne family and a vine grower's granddaughter from the Pyrénées — met in a French vineyard in New Zealand. Everything since has grown from that.
01 — The Meeting
Sébastien, the sixth generation of a Champagne winemaking family. Céline, raised among the vines her grandfather tended facing the Pyrénées. They met as colleagues in a French vineyard in Marlborough. The wine came first — the story followed.
02 — The Heritage
From New Zealand to Australia, then to the Finger Lakes — where their children were born. They fell for these terroirs and built Domaine LeSeurre: a meeting of French heritage and New World wines, carried by six generations of Champagne savoir-faire.
03 — The Dream
Creating their own domaine was the dream of a lifetime. They started from zero — no help, just work, a clear vision, and years of it. The barn of 1487 is the next chapter of that same dream, raised on Seneca Lake.

Céline & Sébastien — at the barn, Champagne

Their daughters — the next chapter
In their words
“We do everything by taste. We mapped the finest terroirs of the Finger Lakes, chose the oldest vines, and let the wine live. That is the magic of craft — everything happens on its own.”
Céline & Sébastien
Single-vineyard terroirs of excellence, kept apart. The oldest vines, the finest growers — chosen after tasting our way across the region, grape by grape.
No added colorants, no added tannins, no concentrates. Minimal sulfur. We don't force nature — we let the living wine find its own balance. Real purity.
Our sparkling wines rest ten years on the lees before disgorgement. Each bottle is handled some seventy times. Reserved for our members alone.
Why we built this
A single sip can return an entire moment — the way a taste in childhood does. That is what we make wine for: not a product, but an emotion to keep and to share. The barn of 1487 will hold the first of those moments. Be there from the very first bottle.
The offer
300 numbered collector bottles. Founding Members only.
The build · 2025 — August 2026
A barn from 1487, dismantled in France and carried across the Atlantic to rise again on the lake. Follow its rebuilding, step by step, all the way to the August opening.

Winter 2025
The barn of 1487 is taken down beam by beam, every piece of timber numbered for its rebirth.
Spring 2026
The centuries-old timber frame is crated and sets sail for the Finger Lakes.
May 2026
Groundwork and foundations on the shores of Seneca Lake, at the heart of the twenty acres.
June 2026
Craftsmen raise the oak structure again, re-assembled true to the original plan.
July 2026
The tasting room, cellar and welcome area take shape within the barn.
August 2026
The estate welcomes its first guests — and its first Founding Members.
Winter 2025
The barn of 1487 is taken down beam by beam, every piece of timber numbered for its rebirth.
Spring 2026
The centuries-old timber frame is crated and sets sail for the Finger Lakes.
May 2026
Groundwork and foundations on the shores of Seneca Lake, at the heart of the twenty acres.
June 2026
Craftsmen raise the oak structure again, re-assembled true to the original plan.
July 2026
The tasting room, cellar and welcome area take shape within the barn.
August 2026
The estate welcomes its first guests — and its first Founding Members.
The Founding Member Offer
The very first 1487 Heritage release is bottled once, in three hundred hand-numbered collector bottles. Each founder receives one — and a number that stays theirs. This is how you belong to the estate before the doors open in August.
300 bottles
Hand-numbered. Made once.
1976
Fifty harvests this year.
6th gen.
Champagne, by lineage.
Live count
0
founders have joined the first 1487 release.
Rather taste first? Order a single bottle — it's the natural way in.
Before you join
Plain answers, no fine print. The founding release is a commitment worth understanding before you make it.
Founding Members
Leave your details and we’ll hold your place among the three hundred. No payment today — we confirm your number and finalize your membership when it opens, before the doors open in August.

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Six generations of French winemaking, grown on the shores of the Finger Lakes. Shipped from the estate to your cellar.

2012 · Late Disgorged
$75.00

2012 · Late Disgorged
$85.00

2012 · Late Disgorged
$79.00

2012 · Late Disgorged
$110.00

2023 · Riesling
$26.99

2024 · Sauvignon Blanc
$29.99

2022 · Chardonnay
$49.99

2024 · Gewurztraminer
$34.99

2019 · Cabernet Franc
$54.99

2021 · Pinot Noir
$34.99

2021 · Cabernet Sauvignon
$34.99

2020 · Merlot
$34.99
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Join the team
We're building the opening team for 1487 Heritage on Seneca Lake — a barn first raised in 1487, taken down in France and reborn among the vines. The doors open in August.
If you care about wine, hospitality and craft — and want to be part of something from its first day — tell us your story. Every application is read personally by Céline and Sébastien.