Day 6              Thursday 7 June 2012 Aÿ: Joseph Loriot-Pagel.  

We started the day with a bus drive along the beautiful Marne Valley to the idyllic village of Festigny where we were met by Joseph, Odile and Jean-Paul Loriot. The Loriot's took us to their vineyard to give us a close up look at the vines and the way that they are pruned as well as providing us with a spectacular panoramic view of the Valley in which they are situated.

 

Afterwards we took in a tour of the Loriot cellars before Joseph gave us demonstration of how champagne was disgorged by hand.

 

The hand disgorging was followed by lunch with the Loriots in their cellars where we ate our way through a truely gourmet lunch accompanied by the Joseph Loriot-Pagel Carte D'Or, Cuvee Reserve 2006, Blanc de Blancs 2005, Rose and a fabulous Jeraboam of 1997 Blanc de Blancs.

 

Lunch finished at 4.00pm and it was back onto the bus for the quiet drive back to our Hotel.