'Reims' Photography by Catherine Mc Cue

Madonna in the Caves
Scull in the Caves

Bottled Champagne

Drawings in the Caves

Bodies in the Caves

The Caves

We Drove to Reims, where we started our trip through France, we had not visited a champagne cave so we needed to finish off our trip with a visit to the House of Pommery. ‘Champagne seems to have had more than its fair share of capable widows, and Madame Pommery was no exception. After the region's best known, the veuve Clicquot, Madame Pommery is the most famous. She took a fledgling Champagne house and laid the foundations for the creation of a grande marque. She moved the house towards the exclusive production of sparkling Champagne rather than still, which was more prevalent in the late 19th Century than it is now, as well as overseeing construction above ground and below. Above ground she commissioned a grand house, which is notable for being an unusual mix of both styles and materials, which is a polite way of saying it looks weird. The work below ground, however, was particularly impressive, as the Pommery cellars saw the addition of over ten miles of new tunnels, with fine arches supporting the ceiling and decorative carvings in the walls’.(sourced from info)
The caves hosted an contemporary exhibition, throughout the caves deep underground we can across some great drawing and small sculptural pieces, how wonderful to end our trip with one last exhibition.
Our trip is over we headed back to Paris, it is hard to say what we enjoyed the most, all of it I guess, we would do it differently next time, taken more time to get to know the locals, we found the French, Italians’, the Swedes and the Germans to be helpful and friendly. Perhaps more time in one place would have been less exhausting but I would gladly do it all over again if given the chance.
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