Épernay

And in fact, I've been giving a lot of my surplus review books to the library.

And I arrived with another four boxes of last week on my way up to Chartres and Reims and Epernay, where I was spending the weekend with my son.

Beautiful.

And I think you read more books than anybody I've ever met.

You know rhymes? Ah, no, you do not know it.

You are too small.' If you only knew how pretty you were at the age of four months! Tiny feet, that people came even from Epernay, which is seven leagues away, to see! We shall have a field, a house.

I will put you to sleep in my bed.

My God! My God! Who would believe this? I have my daughter!' Oh, my mother, said the young girl, at length finding strength to speak in her emotion.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, most of the champagne houses would invite people to go in the cellar and spend some time there in the, I mean, underneath the city of Reims or the city of Epernay.

What we prefer to do is to bring our guests to the vineyards and to explain really the differences of the terroir, where our vineyard is located, how do we work.

Do you have like a bus? We have our small cars.

Yeah, we take them to the vineyard.

So our head office is in Reims, the capital city of Champagne.

But we also have a house close to the vineyard, closer to Epernay.

and the experience takes place there not in the at the head office where our sellers are located but more closer to the vineyard and i think that makes a very big difference because people what they have in mind when it comes to champagne is mainly the sellers and you know the kilometers of The chalk and the wall.

Like under the capital city of Reims, there are miles and miles and miles of these caves.

And then Lily lived in the town of or close to Epernay.

And they have caves all through there.

And so the Germans didn't necessarily know that.

It's a Prise de Mousse yeast.

And I think it was originally developed in Epernay for sparkling.

But it's, one of the things that attracted me was the low foaming.

And so in those days, we were barrel fermenting.

Sam's very familiar.

Grand Cru Blanc de Blanc from Epernay.

Michel Garnier is the grower.

Vineyard's about a kilometer and a half from Dom Perignon.

I, I would do it again, but that's a lot of scratch.

Like, even if you're looking at like 200 bucks a night to travel with just you and Eric, like that's 600 bucks for a three-night stay, right? And, you know, I don't think you and I spent that much money when we were in Épernay in France.

Um, but I mean, I don't regret spending the money, and it, it was actually kind of nice to spend the money and have such a good time because one of the reasons I haven't gone to Montreal in almost 20 years is because of how expensive it was.

But once we got our feet on the ground, being in the city itself wasn't that expensive.