Agriculture and viticulture Champagne-Ardenne

The Mutigny winegrower's trail takes you on a walk through the vineyards. Admire the Champagne landscape from the top of Mutigny, the highest village on the Montagne de Reims, at an altitude of 240 m. The guided tour is done with love and perfect knowledge of the local terroir. This fun and educational tour along a 2.2 km loop is marked out by 12 thematic stations that tell the story of the work of the vine, the climate, the Champagne appellation... The 1.5 hour walk ends with a champagne tasting and a lunch in the heart of the vineyards.

A phone call is welcome, allowing guests to free themselves to get better. Yvette tells us about the exploitation and its range. Discover raw champagne or half-dry that assembles 60% of Chardonnay and 40% of Pinot Noir, and also rosé raw champagne and raw raw.

Visiting this lesson is learning the history of the house, and how Gérard Fresnet, who wants to develop his own champagne in 1952, decides to dig a cellar. Over the years, with many adventures in his adventure, 120 m from a cellar 12 m deep in 1976, allowing the house to store its bottles. Real estate acquisitions in the surroundings allow you to install a new cellar and a press (coquart 8000) ensuring the quality of its champagne. With his son Vincent, the house continues to widen with this quality concern. The gold card, one of the very beautiful vintages of the house is a assemblage of 80% of Pinot Noir and 20% of chardonnay, with notes smoke and a nice rounded in mouth. White white is also to try, all in the finesse and delicacy of the chardonnay.

Villenauxe now has 104 hectares of vine classified as Champagne and is the southwestern end of the Marnese vineyard (Reims, Épernay). Despite this, we are far from the 300 winemakers in the early nineteenth century. Here, champagne almost fell into hiding because of phylloxera, at the beginning of the twentieth century. It took 1970 for the activity to resume. Beyond these bubbles, a Easter fair acts as a trade show with forks for the smallest, street shows, in a friendly atmosphere.

Pascal Doquet, from a family of winemakers, takes care of the estate, has since 1995 markets and its wines. It operates a vineyard of 16 hectares divided on the White in most of which Mesnil-sur-Oger (grand cru) and Mont-Aimé (premier crus), including in Epernay and Vitry-le-François. These vineyards, encépagées to 99 discount from chardonnay and 1 of Pinot Noir, aged 6 to 70 years old and have worked in sustainable viticulture. A visit to the farm allows you to discover modern buildings, a pneumatic presses and an air-conditioned fermenting room. The champagne Doquet-Jeanmaire it is a good selection of wines including vintage "Dry white ideal Selection of white" accompanied by seafood. From the old years are also offered in service of 6 bottles, a selection from the year 1970. The experts are not mistaken.

Located in Rilly-la-Montagne, Champagne Paques et Fils is a winery offering a wide range of champagnes. You can discover their expertise and passion for wine by visiting their estate and vineyard. The Champagne Paques et Fils website also provides information on their various partners and their legal notices.

A family of wine growers for 4 generations, Chantal and Jean-François are at the weekend at Petit Presse, a gourmet restaurant in their cellar. Side tour of the operation, make an appointment, but this remains possible 7 j/7. Passage into the cellar, the press and then tasting the champagne of the house. " Emmanuelle "assembles the three varieties.