Champagne region anyone?

Since David and I have spent a fair amount of time in Paris, I wanted to do something really cool. My choice was tasting champagne. It worked out well because friends of mine and Jeremie just had their first baby girl, named Beatrice. She was born 8 days ago. We were the first friends to see her. We started off the morning seeing the famous Cathedral with its wonderful stained glass windows, which did not come out very well in pictures....



After we headed to the first place to taste at GH Mumm, the real Mumm as the french would tell you....


They store all the Champagne in caves that are about 14 meters underground, it was very refreshing but very dark. This picture has racks of champagne bottles which are angled downward to make the sediment fall to the neck and then they perform the corking procedure to get all the rest of the sediment out, only 5% of Mumms total is done by hand.






The picture of what we got to taste at the tasting afterwards. It was wonderful, David said that he could drink LOTS of this one.... hehe



After we tried to take a tour of Veuve, but you had to reserve two weeks in advance, which we had not done, but we still got to take a peak and see everything yellow!




Tomorrow David leaves for Berlin, a short 8 hour train ride from Paris for his adventures, I am going back to Bordeaux tomorrow evening with Jeremie.
All in all Reims rated a 5 star with the three of us, we are contemplating when we can go back next to see MORE!
Love to all