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Moet & Chandon, just at the beginning of the Avenue de Champagne
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In front of the statue of Dom Perignon, the "father of Champagne" outside Moet & Chandon
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Dom Perignon |
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A statue of the monk Dom Perignon, the "inventor" of champagne, in the courtyard of Moet & Chandon (LVMH group) in Epernay, France
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Moet & Chandon: Visite des Caves - Here's where the tour of the cellars start
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Moet et Chandon, Fondee en 1743: Boutique. And you can of course also buy things here
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This once used to be the home of one of the founding families, now a museum
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Down in the Moet & Chandon cellars in Epernay. Kilometer after
kilometre of tunnels. To the left: bottles in pupitres waiting for the degorgement
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Bottles behind an iron gate
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Bottles, bottles, bottles, and some ghosts (well, actually, digital cameras...)
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When teh wine ferments a second time in bottle it creates a yeast deposit in the bottle. You can see the deposit at the bottom. When the bottle is turned on its head the deposit ends up on the cork and can be removed (degorgement)
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More bottles. Maybe some 110 million bottles in total at Moet. The stock represents 5-6 years of sales. Have a party!
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Bottles resting "sur lattes". With cobweb.
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Bottles in pupitres, slowly turned and raised on their head
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Champagne bottles in the cellars of Moet & Chandon in Epernay, France. The bottles rest "sur lattes" (literally "on wooden sticks") to get bottle age
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Rheingauer Riesling-Route, Kiedrich 444 km - a sign in Hautvillers. Presumably they are sister cities
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A view over the vineyards from Hautvillers. Hautvillers is small wine making village on the Montagne de Reims. This is where the monastery is where Dom Perignon was monk
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Hautviller is extremely well tended and all the houses have pretty signs showing that here lives a wine grower (or other)
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Another of the signs in Hautvillers
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This is the door to the monastery
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One of the buildings inside the monastery. It is of course no longer a monastery but the property of Moet et Chandon
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This used to be a small guest house or hostel at the time when it was still a monastery. French royals are said to have visited. Today it is a museum
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Admiring the view over the vineyards
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In the distance you can see Epernay
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A pond with fish and the guest house
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This is the main building and church at the monastery. The whole place is not open to visitors but only to guests of Moet et Chandon
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