Patty and I had the chance to go to the Champagne region of France - a pretty cool place, but also pretty confusing.It seems that there are two Worlds of Champagne - the heavily marketed one with huge Champagne houses, and then the small Mom and Pop garages (literally) that are making better champagne. Patrick and I went to the Pommery Estate which was located in Reims, where we saw huge cavs and great theatre. The champagne was OK. The next day we went south of Reims and stopped at various houses along the champagne route (very similar to the Alsatian wine route). Not only was the selection better and cheaper, it was also simply better. And like I said, probably the best place we went was someone's converted garage.
