Day 5              Wednesday 6 June 2012: Aÿ, Deutz

We had a very leisurely start to Day 5 of the tour as we had a mere 50 metres to walk from our Hotel Castel Jeanson to the Deutz mansion for the start of our visit to Champagne Deutz. We were met by Jean-Marc Lallier Deutz who provided us with an extensive tour of the cellars including the disgorging and bottling lines. We also saw the recently built cellars before returning to the cellars for a tasting of the Deutz Brut Classic NV and Deutz 2006.

After the tasting we then retired to the Chairmans dinning room where we had a fabulous lunch matched with the Blanc de Blancs 2007, the Cuvee William Deutz 1999 and the Cuvee William Deutz Rose 2002. Simply a stunning line up of champagnes.





After lunch we had a free afternoon and so everyone headed into Epernay to take in the sights.