1487 Héritage
Estate of memory
A French barn raised in 1487, carried across the Atlantic and reborn above fifty-year-old vines on Seneca Lake — by a family six generations into Champagne winemaking. Now open in Hector, NY.
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Saturday, October 24Hector, NY
Grand Opening Celebration
- Ribbon cutting, 10 AM. With the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce.
- Open house, noon to 6 PM. The barn is open to everyone. Tastings available for purchase, 21+.
1487 Héritage is
A truly singular place, five centuries in the making. A French barn raised in 1487 where wine, oak and family live in shared memory.
Two heritages: the barn, the vines
Our wines carry five centuries of French oak to the shore of Seneca Lake
At the heart of the Finger Lakes, 1487 Héritage joins two inheritances. The first is a barn raised in France in 1487 — five hundred and thirty-seven years of oak, dismantled beam by numbered beam in Champagne and re-assembled above the water in Hector, New York.
The second is the vineyard itself: twenty acres on the east shore, ten of them planted to Chardonnay and Riesling in 1976 — fifty-year-old vines farmed by Céline & Sébastien LeSeurre, a family six generations into Champagne winemaking.
By taste, before all
We make wine the way our families always have
Every choice at 1487 Héritage is made by taste — the oldest vines, the finest fruit, sulfur kept to a minimum, and sparkling wines resting ten years on the lees. Each bottle passes through our hands some seventy times before it reaches yours.
Céline — winemaker and owner
Six generations of Champagne craft
A savoir-faire carried from Champagne to the Finger Lakes
Sébastien is the sixth generation of a Champagne winemaking family. From the barn of 1487 to the fifty-year-old vines above Seneca Lake, the estate brings the rigour and patience of Champagne to a New World terroir.
Sébastien — winemaker and owner
Join the Wine Club
All 300 Wine Club Founders are on board, and the Wine Club carries on from here. Private tastings, first allocations, and a family that shares its table.
From the estate
News from the barn
Releases, the work in the vineyard, and what happens under the 1487 roof — a few times a year, from Céline & Sébastien.