The champagne house's affable sixth-generation ambassador gets candid about the importance of keeping it in the family.
To celebrate its 200th anniversary, Maison Billecart-Salmon is on a gastronomic world tour that began with a special collaborative dinner over the weekend with Julien Royer at Odette, featuring the genius of the iconic Alain Passard. The tour will include similar collaborations with some of the world's top toques in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and London, before returning to its Mareuil-sur-Aÿ estate for a family celebration.
“The seventh generation is already working in the company, with Mathieu Roland-Billecart (its current COO) to replace my brother Francoise as the CEO by the end of the year,” Antoine Roland-Billecart, the company’s Export Director and sixth-generation family ambassador told T.Dining over a quick breakfast with journalists at Odette on Friday. He expounded on the importance of "keeping it in the family", adding how his nephew had also recently joined the family business.
Founded in 1818 by husband and wife Nicolas François Billecart and Elisabeth Salmon, the Billecart-Salmon House has for the last two hundred years been handing down the tricks of the trade from generation to generation.