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Chalk underground, a yellow label above it, and the vines and the city around
it. Weighing up a Veuve Clicquot tour? These are the places your day takes you.
The first frames go underground, the way every cellar tour does. A stair of chalk steps
marked with vintage years runs down under the words Grands Millésimes Veuve Clicquot. A lit
stair drops into a chalk pit with the house emblem on its floor. Then come the galleries:
riddling racks lit from below, a great cask at the end of a tunnel, and bottles ageing on the
floor of a pit cut by hand. These are the crayères, the chalk quarries the house has used as
cellars since 1909.
Back above ground, the house shows its colours: a Brut Yellow Label bottle in its box and
a tasting room with yellow chairs. A pavilion carries a giant poster of La Grande Dame, the
prestige cuvée. Reims Cathedral follows, its west front in daylight and lit gold at dusk, and
then a set of deep blue stained-glass windows.
The set ends in the vineyards the days drive through. You see slopes cut by chalk tracks,
a village of red roofs above a river, black grapes on the vine, and champagne poured on a
ledge above the rows. The statue of Dom Pérignon, cellarer of the abbey at Hautvillers, stands
among them. Most day tours stop in his village.
Chalk steps down into the cellars, each marked with a vintage year, above the words Grands Millésimes Veuve ClicquotA lit staircase descending into a chalk pit, the house emblem laid out on the floor belowRiddling racks of bottles lit from below along a rough chalk galleryA great cask at the end of a chalk cellar, bottles stacked in the side baysA lit tunnel through the chalk, bottles in the side bays and a cask at its endA long chalk gallery under a single lamp, bottle stacks along its wallsA brick-vaulted cellar gallery with bottles stacked in its arched baysBottles ageing in rows on the floor of a high chalk pit cut by handA narrow passage between tall racks of bottles, lit at the far endA bottle of Veuve Clicquot Brut Yellow Label lying in its yellow boxThe neck of a Veuve Clicquot bottle before the house's sign, Reims FranceA single bottle displayed in a yellow disc above the name Veuve ClicquotYellow Label bottles lying on a glass rack by a windowA tasting room with yellow folding chairs, high tables and the Veuve Clicquot name on the counterA pavilion with a giant La Grande Dame bottle poster, yellow signposts beside itReims Cathedral's west front and its two towers under a pale skyThe carved west front of Reims Cathedral lit gold against a dark evening skyThree stained-glass windows in deep blues and reds against a dark interiorVineyard slopes cut by chalk tracks, a village and a large house among the trees beyondA village of red roofs among vines, a river curving through the valley behindGreen vine rows rolling to the horizon under a pale skyBunches of black grapes hanging among vine leavesThe statue of Dom Pérignon before a carved inscription naming him cellarer of the abbey of HautvillersChampagne poured into two flutes on a ledge above a vineyard and a village
