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The cathedral the city is known for, the chalk cellars under it and the vines
outside. Weighing up a Reims Champagne tour? These are the places the day takes you.
The first frames are Reims Cathedral: the west front by day and lit at dusk, the two towers,
and the east end above a garden. The Basilica of Saint-Remi follows, with its two Romanesque
towers, and then stained glass in deep blue.
Then you go under the ground. Riddling racks line a chalk gallery, bottles age in a pit cut
by hand, and a lit stairway runs down between chalk walls. The iron gate of the Mumm cellars
and a great carved cask close that part of the set.
Épernay comes next, with Moët & Chandon's courtyard at night and the statue of Dom
Pérignon, cellar master of the abbey at Hautvillers, then a row of bottle sizes and a pour. The set ends in the vines: rows at sunset, a
windmill and a lighthouse above them, a Route touristique du Champagne sign, and black grapes
before the harvest.
Reims Cathedral's west front and its two towers under a blue sky with white cloudThe statues and gables of Reims Cathedral's west front lit gold at duskThe two flat-topped towers of Reims Cathedral above the gallery of kingsThe east end of Reims Cathedral rising behind a formal garden and an older buildingThe Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims, its two Romanesque towers and long naveThree tall stained-glass windows in deep blue and red, lit from outsideRiddling racks of bottles lining a long, lit chalk gallery under the groundStacked bottles ageing in a high chalk cellar, its walls cut by handThe pointed vault of a chalk pit, lit amber from belowThe iron gate of the G.H. Mumm cellars under a vaulted chalk ceilingA long stairway lit in white, running down between chalk walls into the cellarsA great carved cask at the end of a lit cellar galleryBottles lying on their sides in the dark, their glass catching the lightThe Moët & Chandon courtyard in Épernay lit at night, the Dom Pérignon statue beside the house plaqueThe statue of Dom Pérignon, cellar master of Hautvillers abbey, before a carved inscriptionA wide avenue of brick and stone house fronts, a tethered balloon in the sky aboveA row of G.H. Mumm bottles from the quarter bottle up to the Salmanazar, each labelledA bottle pouring into a row of flutes at a tasting barRows of vines running towards a low sun, the sky gold over the hillsVine rows falling to a river valley and a village, hills on the far sideA windmill on a rise above vines turning gold and red in autumnA white lighthouse standing among green vines on a summer dayA Route touristique du Champagne sign in the vines, a village on the slope behindBunches of black grapes hanging among the leaves before the harvest
