How do you wake up a bus of college kids that are tired of church tours? Stick them in the vaults of a world famous champagne company and give them free samples of champagne.
These tunnels were honestly one of the coolest places I have ever visited. The majority of them were left from Roman times, when the chalk the ground consisted of was excavated for use in buildings, etc. Later used by monks 800 years ago to distill their own bubblies, the staircases and fingerprints of those monks still exist in the walls. The tunnels were also used to house war refugees in World War I and World War II. the evidence of their stay is left on the walls, in the form of sculptures, pictures and tick-marks for each day spent in the dark tunnels. Things like that make you thankful for a bed and full belly.
Now the home of some 3 or 4 million bottles of Taittinger Champagne, this series of underground tunnels is the "small" vault. The larger vault the company owns houses some 12 million bottles. With the "lower-end" bottle costing 150+ euros, you can imagine what kind of revenue that is generating.
Tasted good, though.
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