The beautiful trees on the walk to Rue Moufftard

Kim's favorite street, Rue Moufftard. I think I like the street by my house the best so far. The markets are fabulous. Although, we did go on a Monday, so many of the stores and markets were closed(we did not know this before hand avi)

My delicios steak hache crepe from my new favorite study spot, La Belle Ronda- the creperie


From the cellars

The garden where our tasting was

The girls- Allison, Bridget, Lyon, Me, Christine and Catherine at the tasting

My favorite boys...the supplied the Champagne. We tasted Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2003 and the Grand Vintage 2003 Rose. They were both delicious but the Rose was my favorite.

Dom Perignon--the super magnum(forgot the real name/size haha)

Napoleon gave this full of wine to Moet as a present because he loved the champagne so much. They decided to call the regular champagne(not the vintage years), Imperial to honor their relationship with Napoleon. Little bit of trivia for you!

Just one of the huge cubbies full of champagne at different stages of aging. The chalkboard sign you see is in a secret code that only the 4 cellarmasters know which tells which wine it is, at what stage, and how many are in the stack. Pretty cool huh!

My boy Dom

A replica of Dom's wine press [don't worry, fake grapes ;) ]

Lyon and I on the wall overlooking Epernay

Dom's abbey. Apparently these grounds were built and rebuilt over 7 times throughout history. The monks just kept rebuilding. I can't remember all of the details of the story, but that is the basic concept. The view was so beautiful that the ruling countries wanted that location.

The Abbey grounds

Inside the Abbey. Cool chairs/pews huh!






The countryside from the bus window. So beautiful!!