moet in cramant
Posted on | July 9, 2010 | No Comments
here are some of the famous vines…..we are staying just up the road and around the corner, a mere three or four minutes walk:
and this is the view over the moet vines, to the next village, which is called avise:
it is beautiful and green and not an inch of land is wasted.
in the next few days we want to visit the village of bouzy and try the famous bouzy rouge wine.
bouzy is a grand cru champagne village….the grapes are officially classified as the very best….but the rebels of bouzy turn over some of their grapes to make a very special red wine instead.
it is an expensive wine and we have been told that it doesn’t travel well.
so, seeing as how we are in the area, we’ll have to drop in for a glass.
late yesterday afternoon, maurice took me to a champagne bar in epernay.
they have repurposed a lovely old bank building for this bar and as well as a long long marble bar serving up all kinds of champagne by the glass, they have a restaurant as well.
as we thirstily drank down my new favourite (guy charlemange’s blanc de blancs), the barman told us that albert, prince of monaco, had had lunch there earlier, after seeing off the epernay start of the tour de france.
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