Montagne de Reims covered with white frost.
Our great bubbles and the soils, that create them, should enter the list of world heritage, suggests the offical body for the champagne industry and the winegrowers, the CIVC (Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de la Champagne).
The Paris-based Unesco-organisation classifies monuments, cultural landscapes and natural phenomenons throughout the world. And it has a list of cultural landscapes of vineyards as well. So far four have been listed here, Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux, Tokaj in Hungary, Haut-Douro in Portugal and the vulcano island of Pico, part of the Portuguese Azores group of islands. Champagne wants to join in as the fifth element.
The region and business of champagne is already not entirely estranged with classifications. Five champagnehouses in Reims have through years and years used 2000 years old chalk mines as storage for their ageing champagnes. The mines have originally been dug out in Roman times, and the most well preserved one at the house Ruinart is classified on the national French liste of historical landmarks.
Pavilion at Cramant in the Côte des Blancs.
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