Day one of the champagne festival

The forecast was good and everyone was excited to start our day at this year’s Champagne festival, which was in the villages of Buxeuil, Neuville-sur-Seine, Courteron and Gye-sur-Seine.

For the two days of the festival there were 15 producers across the four villages that we were going to get the opportunity to taste.

We decided to start in Courteron where there was two producers, Fleury and Cottet-Debreuil. Fleury was a house we had been wanting to try for a little while, and as they were only going to be open on the Saturday of the festival we decided to head there first.

It was a very good start to our day, and one we will be revisiting.

Next we headed to the village of Buxeuil, where there were seven tastings to enjoy. The village was bubbling with a summer party atmosphere, with lots of music, dancing, food stalls and games.

It was one of the best festival first days we can remember.