Champagne Unisson Grand Cru Blanc De Blancs

Franck Bonville is a family house in Avize, in the heart of the Côte des Blancs, with over fifteen hectares of vineyards distributed among the Grand Crus of Avize, Oger and Mesnil-sur-Oger. The story begins in 1937 with Alfred and his son Franck, who buy a wine estate to produce champagne on their own; The activity developed after World War II and consolidated in the 70s with Gilles and his wife Ingrid. Since 1996 it is Olivier Bonville, the fourth generation with oenological training and experiences in Corsica and Germany, leading the maison, carrying out sustainable viticulture and a philosophy entirely dedicated to the Blanc de Blancs on the Terroir Grand Cru.

Classic Thursday evening. My great friend, Dr. Marco Stabile, a plastic surgeon, came to see me at the Umbreleèr. We had dinner calmly and, for the occasion, I wanted to uncork this champagne: a simple moment with friends, with a wine at the height of the evening. Who is Marco Stabile Born in Cremona in 1961. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery on 12 April 1988 at the University of Parma, with a grade of 105/110 and an experimental thesis in Plastic Surgery on Tissue Expansion. He obtained the specialization in plastic and reconstructive surgery, also in Parma, in July 1993, at the end of a training course at the chair of plastic surgery of the university which sees him participate in over five hundred interventions. The professional path. After the first years between the Sospiro hospital, the E. Germani hospital in Cingia de 'Botti and the Ancelle della Carità nursing home in Cremona, he is medical director at the Plastic Surgery Operating Unit and the Major Burn Center of the University Hospital Pisana from 2001 to 2010.In July 2015 he became director of the new Plastic Surgery Operating Unit of the Piacenza ASL, based at the Castel San Giovanni hospital, where today he is primary and senior consultant. International training. He specializes in centers of excellence abroad: the Clinique St. Martin of Bordeaux for Microsurgery, the National Cancer Institute of Milan for Breast Reconstruction, the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston and the University Hospital of Cleveland. He was among the first in Italy to introduce the water jet assisted liposuction technique and lipofilling. Covid and "Mr. Heparin". During the pandemic, the Castel San Giovanni hospital becomes one of the first Covid centers in Italy. His team understands the value of heparin against widespread thrombosis caused by the virus, helping to save about three hundred patients: hence the nickname "Mr. Heparin" with which colleagues renamed it. For this reason, in 2020, he receives the title of "Piacentino of the Year".In 2023 he applies the same intuition to a single case, saving a 38-year-old woman in septic shock with severe necrosis in the face with simple drops of heparin, saving her a demolition intervention: the case is published in the American scientific journal indexed Archives of Clinical and Medical Case Reports. Humanitarian plastic surgery. In 2011 he founded AICPE Onlus (Italian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery), of which he was President from 2015 to 2022. Since 2012 he has participated in sixteen humanitarian missions in Togo, Benin, Zambia and Paraguay, as well as a Mission with medical material and drugs for the Sumy hospital, Ukraine, during the conflict. In a single mission in Paraguay, together with his team, he performs over 160 free interventions on patients with outcomes of burns, congenital malformations and serious pathologies. Since 2009 he has been a foreign member of the Paraguayan Society of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and in one of his missions he was officially presented to the Paraguayan press by the Italian Embassy in Asunción. the awards.Author of thirty-six scientific publications, he is a member of national and international societies - SICPRE, SICOB, SOFCPRE, ISAPS, IPRAS, EASAPS (of which he is a founding member) - and was a lecturer at the School of Specialization in Plastic Surgery of the University of Parma, as well as a speaker at international congresses in London, Asunción, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Rome and Bremen. On 2 June 2024, on the occasion of the Republic Day, he receives from the Prefect the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, for his humanitarian plastic surgery. A doctor who, between the operating room and missions in the world, has made his profession an instrument of dignity for those who need it most. A great friend, even before a great professional.