G.H. Mumm
29 RUE DU CHAMPS DE MARS 51199 RIEMS
G. H. Mumm & Co, situated in Reims in northern France, is one of the largest Champagne producers and it is currently ranked 4th globally based on number of bottles sold in 2015. The company is owned by Pernod Ricard.
It was founded by three brothers, Jacobus, Gottlieb and Phillip Mumm, German winemakers from the Rhine valley, and G. Heuser and Friedrich Giesler on March 1, 1827, as P. A. Mumm Giesler et C°. P.A. were the initials of the Mumms’ father, Peter Arnold Mumm, a successful wine merchant from Solingen. Mumm’s label is famous for its red ribbon (Cordon Rouge), patterned after and resembling the red sash of the Grand Cross (Grand-croix)—formerly called Grand Ribbon (Grand cordon)—the highest level of the French Legion of Honour.
The French confiscated all of the Mumm’s property, although they had lived in Champagne for almost a century before World War I, because they had never become French citizens.