The Wine Experience         
The Champagne Districts     

Okay, just how well do you know your geography?   Do you know that the wine we call Champagne is more than a particular style, it's a place in France? Now there's no city named Champagne but it just may be the most famous wine district in the world.  

About an hour from Paris, the cities of Reims and Epernay are home to most of the great champagne houses.   Many are stunning edifices with millions of bottles of bubbly quietly resting in the ancient chalk caves below.   It's notable that the caves were first dug by the Romans as they mined limestone for structures.

And all along the Marne River are vineyards and villages devoted to making this remarkable sparkling wine.   It's an area of charm and elegance where sipping champagne at any time or place is a way of life.

In Epernay stands the statue of the monk Dom Perignon who is said to have proclaimed "Come, I am drinking the stars!" when he first tasted the sparkler.

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