First stop

Such a gorgeous day to wake up to, for day one of ‘La route du champagne en fête’. There was a lot of excitement for the day ahead, but first I needed to prepare breakfast. Brian nipped out with Lloyd to pick up some fresh bread and croissants, I wanted to ensure we had a tasty breakie to start our day.

We arrived at the first village of Bligny around 11am, and were soon sipping our first glass.

It’s such a great way to try different champagnes, and start to understand the grapes. There were a few villages this year that only had one producer in them, so we had decided the night before that we would visit these first. Next one Argançon.

You can visit the villages and producers in any order you choose. We thought it would be good to do a couple of villages with just one producer to taste first, then head to Urville where there were four more to taste. There was lots to see and do along the way, which makes for a really enjoyable event. It has a country fair atmosphere, with marching bands, vintage car exhibitions, unusual musical instruments, and plenty of choice for tasty lunch or snack trucks.

We decided to end our day at Champignol-lez-Mondeville. Where they had a superb three piece jazz band playing.

Our group of 11 people, decided to stay and listen to the jazz band for a while. The atmosphere was very relaxed and it didn’t take much to buy a couple of extra bottles for all to enjoy.