Champagne Cattier Marks 400 Years With 400 Hand-Painted Collector Bottles

Luxury anniversary gifts rarely achieve a one-to-one symmetry between the milestone and the object. Champagne Cattier pulled it off: exactly 400 hand-painted bottles to mark 400 years of family winemaking, each one a singular piece of art that cannot be replicated.

The Cattier family traces its roots to 1625, when the family's ancestors began cultivating vines in Chigny-les-Roses in the heart of the Montagne de Reims. Alexandre Cattier is now the 13th generation at the helm of the company and the fourth to produce the house's own champagne. A pioneer in the art of reinventing the champagne bottle, Maison Cattier has already made a name for itself with emblematic collaborations, including one with fashion designer Courrèges, an exclusive creation for Maxim's, and a special series dedicated to Gustave Eiffel. It is also behind the famous Armand de Brignac bottle, now an icon in the world of luxury. The Laventure edition is the latest chapter in that lineage of bottle-as-artwork thinking, and the most personal one yet.

The release is the result of a collaboration with French painter and sculptor Raphaël Laventure, with the champagne housed in a bespoke Saverglass bottle transformed into a vibrant work of art. The cuvée inside is Cattier's Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru, making this a collector's object with serious substance beneath the surface. Laventure, born in the Dordogne in 1986, is rapidly developing his colorful Pop style that appeals to collectors and gallery owners. With acrylics, he superimposes thousands of knife strokes enriched with brush strokes on wooden boards — and it was that exact palette-knife technique he brought to each of Cattier's 400 Saverglass bottles.

Each bottle is painted individually by the artist using acrylic paint applied with a knife. A signature of the artist on his canvases, this technique brought texture and depth to the bottle. The endeavor marked Laventure's first time painting directly on a wine and spirits bottle. That debut makes each of the 400 bottles a document of a creative first: the moment a painter known for large-scale Pop canvases crossed into an entirely different substrate and scale.

The attention to craft extends to every detail of the package. Both the facing and back label, made of pewter and available in gold or silver finishes, are engraved with the brand and artist name. The muselet adopts Laventure's colorful motifs and features the artist's signature. The colorful bottles contrast with the matte black of the coffret by BXL Creative Design, sheathed in soft-touch paper and embellished with gold and silver hotstamping. The visual logic is deliberate: Laventure's explosive palette hits harder against that matte black case, the way a painting pops off a dark gallery wall.

Cattier produced 400 bottles, each individually numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. They retail at €850 and launched in June 2025. That price is not out of step with the market for serious artist-edition spirits: comparable hand-finished collector bottles from other prestige maisons regularly trade above €1,000 on the secondary market, and the numbered COA here only strengthens the resale case.

The edition was publicly revealed at an evening organized by French professional packaging network Réseau EPN in Paris in February 2026, with papermaker Oudin sponsoring the event. The Paris reveal, eight months after commercial launch, underscored how the industry itself received the project: less as a marketing exercise, more as a legitimate packaging and art world event.

For the gift-giver, the math is straightforward. The collection consists of 400 unique bottles, entirely hand-painted by Raphaël Laventure, with no two identical. At €850 for a numbered, certified, hand-painted Blanc de Blancs Premier Cru in a bespoke coffret, this is not a champagne gift — it is a piece of contemporary art with something extraordinary inside.