Reims

Champagne has always been my choice of poison (that and the quest to find the world's best Cosmopolitan), so the real reason for our trip begins today. A bucketlist to visit some of the best Champagne houses in the Champagne region!

We hired a car from Paris and spent the next couple of days between Reims and Epernay visiting around 8 Champagne houses and popping in to few more. Hundreds of kilometers of underground Cavès and thousands of hectares of vineyards go into supplying the globe with 350 million bottles of bubbly a year. At some houses we were 30 metres underground in 10 degree chalk pit caves and saw where century old bottles of champagne are still kept.

Pictures just don't do it justice. The buildings and architecture are breathtakingly beautiful, second only to the golden nectar that we tasted!

First up, Pommery (where I shrunk Karl) and one of my all time favorites, Taittinger 🇨🇵Baca lagi