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Champagne Vineyards

Valentine's Champagne

14 - 16 February 2009

Celebrate Valentine’s night with champagne in Champagne!

Spend Valentine’s evening at a gourmet dinner with plenty of excellent champagnes hosted at one of the highest quality houses such as Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. Next day we’ll serve you Champagne with your buffet breakfast, then take you out to the vineyards of the Montagne de Reims to meet up with one or two smaller growers.

On the final morning, after another glass of champagne with your breakfast, there’ll be time to explore Reims, perhaps do a little shopping before our final lunch together. This will be with one of the Champagne Houses in the Grand Cru village of Ay.

Champagne stretches from around Troyes in the south, to Reims in the north in the Marne. The vineyards here are the Montagne de Reims, the Côte des Blancs (where the white grapes are concentrated) and the Vallée de la Marne.

Reims, our base, is home to many of the great names in Champagne: Krug, Roederer, Clicquot, Mumm, Taittinger and Charles Heidsieck have their cellars here. It has a long and interesting history. It was important in the Latter Roman Empire and there are several monuments still in evidence, including a Triumphal Arch, the Forum and the stone quarries or crayères which these days are used as cellars by many Champagne Houses.