A Taste Of Champagne

In the champagne celler

Storing the champers

Went to a champagne vineyard in the mountains and it was great!!
had a guided tour of the whole place, the lab, the offices, the vineyard, the packaging, all of it!
It was very interesting to find out how they made the champagne and how much actually goes into it? i never knew for example the freezing of the bottle neck to get rid of all the rubbish! Interesting stuff...
Also the walls are used to store the champagne with the tanks about 80 thousand litres of champagne and they have about 20 tanks, thats a lot of champagne

Then after somehow got invited to the owners house to drink Cava and have a meal in their house.. it was a very old classic farm house, in the fields surrounded by more vineyards..
Met the owners and the owners parents, who are 88 years old and still working in the fields picking the grapes and olives..

We sat down at the table and had Cava, had some meat, bread and special olive oil, it was so pure..

Factory

The lab

Was a very good day and the experience is probably one i wont repeat again due to the limited opportunities.

The factory works for 40 days 24 hours a day making the wine as its important as soon as its picked to be turned into champagne! They make 125 thousand bottles of champagne an hour! for 40 days!

Owners house