Vineyards on the Cote des Blanc, near \u00c9pernay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOn Wednesday<\/strong> we’ll explore the Cote des Blancs, where the best of Champagne’s chardonnay is grown, and of course we’ll be tasting champagne, too.<\/p>\nOn Thursday<\/p>\n
we return to Reims, via pretty, rolling hills and the Abbey that was once home to Dom P\u00e9rignon.<\/p>\n
On Friday<\/strong>, we cycle through vineyards along the River Vesle, leaving Reims, and head north through rolling hills, cycling once again over the Chemin des Dames, and back to our start point of Chamouille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champagne – a region, and of course a world-famous wine. My view of champagne has been that you buy into the idea of a celebratory drink, or you don’t. The best champagnes are beautiful, and the history of the region and the wines is fascinating. But much of the ordinary stuff – which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,8,25,45],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechaingang.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}