Touring Europe Pt.4 - Chateau Pommery
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The tour is winding down. I’m in Darmstadt, Germany now and leave for Istanbul, Turkey in a few hours, followed by Athens, Greece. One week ago I was in Reims, France. I had never heard of the city before but I learned that it is the region where champagne is made. If your “champagne†is not from this region of France it can’t be called champagne. It has to be called sparkling wine. We played a concert at the Chateau Pommery, which is the headquarters of Pommery champagne. Actually, I had never heard of Pommery champagne before, which just shows you the lower class of folk I generally roll with, because this place projected straight up, wealth! The highlight was when they took us down to the caves, which housed the wine cellars. We descended about 120 steps beneath the building. I had never seen anything like this before in my life! There was an 18-mile labyrinth of tunnels and walkways lined with racks of bottles, as far as you could see. Our tour guide said there were 25 million bottles of champagne down there aging and awaiting shipment around the world. Some tunnels led to spaces that were occupied by some other worldly looking pieces of art. One had a large upside down hanging sarcophagus looking object, which was startling to walk up on, in a cave. Another object was this large blue UFO shaped object, which was suspended from a wire and slowly rotated counter-clockwise. It was an eerie but VERY cool thing to see.I have some pics of this stuff to post, but I can’t get the Upload Photo link to work. Is there a size or format requirement that I’m not adhering to?I unistalled and reinstalled the latest version of MOM for Mac, but it’s still not working…help ;-)
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