Discovering Hidden Gems of the Champagne Region

this week we're taking a day trip from Paris to the Champagne region I would like some of this please in my glass early this morning we connected with our private guides and driver in Paris and drove 90 minutes to The Majestic city of R for our first stop of the day the lon Winery which is the official champagne of the British royal family all right cheers then with the connections of our guide we'll go to a small Family Winery for lunch and of course we'll drink more champagne we'll visit don't's grave to pay our respect and we'll finish in a champagne Winery Co-op where colen will attempt to saber a bottle of champagne for the first time Ali on there's this really beautiful thing right over here what do you call this thing holy moly the cathedral the Royal Cathedral R Cathedral where the you mean the Royal I mean this is where a man becomes a king in French history the French Kings almost all of them in this cathedral in this very Cathedral not happening in Paris not in notam they had to come all the way to notam dur not of Paris to get the crown on their head to it wa it's I don't know how many statues are there but that is insane it's way more decorated than notam de par because it's about 100 years older the one of the most famous medieval statue in France is The Smiling Angel uh-huh waiting for Mona Lisa just amazing I mean inside and outside the height of the N it's way taller than natam Cathedral of Paris it's taller than any other one isn't it maybe it's yeah it's one of the uh one of the biggest that says that this is where the first king of France was baptized I mean became a Christian we are in the year 496 sting glass in the back they were designed by shagal yeah because all of this the the windows got destroyed by the German bombings of the first world war the roof was on fire and so they rebuilt a concrete and metallic roof and shagel was commissioned uh he had just converted from Judaism to christianism and he was commissioned to create so that was amazing but where are we going next now we're going to try some champagne so we I was praying for champagne when I was in the church you know and on we go to the legendary Lanson domain where we got a guided tour and a glass of one of the most famous champagne brands in the world I want this one I had not heard of this particular brand before but it is a huge champagne house primarily in the UK and what's really cool about visiting this one is that they have their own clo or their own enclosure of Vineyards which definitely makes makes a difference in the controlling of the quality and stuff and I think she said 180 days after the first fruit yeah is when they do the Harvest but the real Treasures are actually buried underground there are 7 km of these tunnels where they keep bottles of wine yeah I mean just look holy moly how many bottles are in here uh 20 million 20 million bottles wow we don't made a vintage it's I this is incredible but for the black this is incred 20 million bottles of champ when they said it was a big house they meant it so this is the library where they keep bottles going back to 1904 so these are they little private collection of you know the Heritage or the you know just cuz they kept some [Music] 1 2 3 4 5 and each of them has 500 bottles m one square one of those is 500 bottles hey Antoine yes ma'am oh you got one of those is 500 too it just keeps going that champagne I was praying for in the cathedral is being poured right now all right [Music] cheers it's very easy to drink has really super fine bubbles it's light it's like really light it sparkles on the tongue almost like the bubbles they roll all the way to the back oh for me they roll in my brain immediately now that we've done this fabulous spot where are we going next next we're going to a family run business and it's also a place where we're going to have lunch so welcome to the champagne V so the family work with 8 tars uh separate in 44 different plots and 12 different Villages because you know in Champagne one Village it's equal at one crew and they produce around 80,000 bottles per years the you start with the Shak and she plater so you have two local cheeses uh the orange one is the long uh the white one is the showers uh the Lum is a little bit more stronger so you can start with the white one this is a white cheese don't know what it's called I'm terrible show show sh white cheese I'm going to get killed for that no how do you sh so this is a cat Bear cheese that's a cat Bear cheese do you know what I I actually think is extraordinary is you're going in a champagne house and they're giving you a Sharry board with champagne and you wouldn't think of having champagne with Sharry board or with cheese and it actually goes amazing together see look at that the skin the skin but I think you eat this one yes I'm going to put a piece of cheese and uh and and that with champagne this is great and which what what is this one contal the way the big house and I suspect with c and Mo and all this are the same it's kind of a theme park thing right and you go and you have a guide and she tells she basically goes to her Spiel which is interesting but it's that but when you come to a small Vineyard like this I mean look at the experience you know we're having a plateau Shak there's just us and we're going to drink some champagne and that's a lot more intimate it's a lot more you got the corporate version which is going to be all this that for me is more where it's at 5 2 555 all right Pon what's next next we've done a big house yeah we've done a family run business yes and so now we're going to head to a third type of champagne producer it's a co-op it means it's several grape owners yeah who all together work on creating a brand the corporate world the family world and the team world but first let's pay our respects to the man who made all this fabulous champagne possible what is this place and why did we come here we come to it's a very small village okay where this monk called aha perfected the champagne method okay and because alcohol was made by monks like regular people didn't do it the monks did it so Dum Peron was the D which is the big Abbot at the Abbey he's the one who perfected at the turn of the 16 to 1700s who perfected the uh method Champa so the technique we've learned this morning to make champag the process of making a champagne and he's making us happy all day yes and so we're going to pay homage at his last residence in the church cool oh wow the pillars is what dates back to the old medieval Church MH you see that yes it's get elevated it gets more and more decoration with fine painters Etc the tomb of Domino's Pierre Perino benedic Monk par here cool if you're looking for great tours day trips around Paris or the French Countryside we've put a list of our top favorites on our website so whether you want to do it yourself or book a guide so you don't miss out on secret stuff there's something there for everyone and we put a link in the description below check it out and see if it's for you on we go to the co-op passi gr where we not only get to visit the winery the second one here this is for we get to learn a little bit more about how to open a bottle of champagne properly so you carry the bottle like this you warm my thumb in the bottom yes you warm up the bottle uh with the thumb here and when you're ready you will tap to the point here okay okay A bit more like this okay yes so you can [Music] tap and then you warm up the line faster faster don't be shy and when you're ready it that was a [Music] process horrible well to Colleen's uh first time ever sabering a champagne I need a saber for Christmas you need a saber for Christmas I don't have one yet if you like this day trip to Champagne next I would watch this day trip to the lir valley

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Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 27 2024