On April thirteenth, I ran the Paris marathon. After the race, my sister and her husband and Dustin and I added on a couple of days champagne tasting in France. Here’s a abstract of that journey!
On Monday morning after the marathon, we had been up early to uber to the prepare station (Gare du Nord) for a 7:30 am prepare from Paris to Reims. We had tickets for the direct route, which was solely 45 minutes.
Reims is smaller sufficient {that a} automotive isn’t actually wanted; we had been capable of stroll from the prepare station to our lodge upon arrival. We stayed at a lodge referred to as La Caserne Chanzy, which was fantastic, nothing particular like our Paris lodge (the Saint James) however simply fantastic for 2 nights!
We booked a non-public tour (personal being the 4 of us) through Sparkling Tours. They deliberate out our two day itinerary primarily based on what was out there and a mixture of the small and large champagne homes. Our tour value included all tastings and excursions, in addition to lunches each days with champagne.
Day 1:
We began at Louis Brochet a smaller home, the place our information walked us via the method of constructing champagne after which we tasted a number of of their champagnes.
After the primary tasting, it was already time for lunch, which was within the city of Eparnay. We additionally walked down “Champange Avenue” and popped into Moet & Chandon with an image with Dom Perignon.
Subsequent was the G.H. Mumm tour; the was one of many larger homes, and their house was lovely!
We ended the day on the Ruinart home, which was completely beautiful and price a go to and we tried so actually good champagnes there.
We had a late dinner at Au Cul de Poule in Reims, which apparently interprets to “The Hen’s Ass!” HA! However the meals was good and it was very French.
Day 2:
We started the day with one other small home and tasting, which was referred to as Voirin Jumel which was one in every of our favorites.
We had a non-public cellar lunch at Champagne Julien Chopin with extra tastings.
Our driver then took us to Hautvillers, the village of Dom Perignon and his burial place.
Our closing tasting was at Champagne Michel Fagot.
We had a little bit of a relaxation earlier than our closing dinner in Reims, which was at L’Alambic
My sister and her husband stayed an additional evening in Reims and yet another evening in Paris earlier than flying again to Chicago, however we left on the prepare again to London on Wednesday.
Two days of champagne was numerous champagne, ha! However I really feel prefer it gave us a very good overview into the world and the champagne course of. I personally realized a ton about champagne, although I’ll admit I didn’t know that a lot earlier than!
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