Champagne: the road of sparkling wines
CHAMPAGNE: SPARKLING ROAD
Why you should go to Champagne with Skyship Adventure
Gastronomic journey through the legendary French region
“Champagne gives the feeling that every day is Sunday,” said Marlene Dietrich. In Champagne, where sparkling gold is born, in fact every day is like a day off, but only for those who came here to visit. The locals are hardworking and collected people, regardless of whether they are engaged in the production of champagne wines or are passionate about some other, no less worthy cause.
Historically, Champagne is a Protestant region, mentally close to England and Germany rather than France, and Protestants, as you know, consider labor to be the most soul—saving occupation.
Champagne is nobility in everything, not only in drinks. Refined gastronomy, elegant architecture. Even the climate here is aristocratic: cold nights that keep the grapes and winemakers in good shape.
Many residents of Champagne have very white skin — blue blood! — and eyes the color of grapes, the same, eternally young, which the local climate does not allow to ripen and hit the sweetness.
The whole Champagne is slightly elevated above sea level, and the vineyards always seem to float in a cloud of cold dew. This is the second reason, after the climate, for the delicate taste of champagne.
The third reason is in the soil. White limestone gives the wine light mineral notes. But the main thing in the production of sparkling wines is, of course, the skill of winemakers, which has been honed over the years. Making good champagne is like performing a three-year-long violin sonata flawlessly.
Champagne is generally a drink that strong women made for strong women: one of the first and main fans of sparkling wine from the north of France was Queen Victoria, a loyal customer of the house of Pommery.
Visa: you need to apply for a Schengen visa
Air temperature: in winter: 0 – +6S in summer: +23C – +25C
Season: all year round
Duration: from 8 to 15 days
Currency: Euro
Flight duration: 4 hours
With us you will visit
Pommery Palace
The Blue Palace, where the company's headquarters are located, and its basements are considered one of the most interesting in the region. An endless staircase leads down into the ancient caves left over from limestone mining back in Roman times; the galleries themselves are named after European capitals — Madame Pommery started this order, she supplied her champagne to all these countries. By the way, it was Madame Pommery who introduced the fashion for brut, reducing the amount of sugar in the drink, so it is to her that we owe the delicate taste of the best champagnes
Epernay
A town with a population of 25 thousand people, which declared itself the capital of champagne. Has the right. Standing on the main square of a tiny town, feel the moment: 200 million bottles of the best champagne in the world are currently dozing within a radius of several kilometers from you, who are just waiting for the moment to give people a holiday — perhaps the most beautiful in their lives. In Epernay there are the headquarters of Dom Perignon, Moet et Chandon, Mercier, de Castellane and other Houses, from the names of which the heart of enolub begins to beat faster
Cathedral of Notre-Dame-en-Vaud
Champagne not only "plays", it also sounds. In the valiant city of Chalons-en-Champagne, which is still often called by its historical name, Chalons-sur-Marne, we will definitely hear the gentle chime of the 56 bells of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-en-Vaud. This ringing is impossible to confuse with anything: the bells sound like the thinnest "flutes" with champagne
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We will also visit the citadel of the most uncompromising champagne in the world — Krug. Only Grand Cru and premier cru, only the first pressing cuvee, only oak barrels — the Krug family, which still owns the House, is true to its principles.
Le Millénaire Restaurant
We invite you to the elegant Le Millénaire in the heart of Reims, where the interior resembles a spaceship from Tarkovsky's films, and the creations of chefs, father and son of Lyaplege are paintings by Joao Miro.
