The Dawn of Champagne Thomas de Marne

A chat with Thomas de Marne, the new face - and winemaker - of his mother's renowned organic Aube estate, Champagne Val' Frison.

As he transitions his mother’s respected Aube output, Champagne Val’ Frison, into his own eponymous label, thirty-year-old Thomas de Marne might strike onlookers as an unknown quantity in this highly-surveilled region. The question hanging over the head of every “fils / fille de” taking over an estate is: will he or she work in a similar spirit as the p…