champagne makes everything delightful

champagne makes everything delightful
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Today we went to Champagne and toured the Moët et Chandon cellars. Champagne is one of many of the finer things in life that I'm not that excited about, or at least I wasn't until today. The House of Moët , though, is REALLY good at convincing you that they are awesome, and that you'd be lucky to have a sip of their awesomeness.

For example, they offer you the chance to pay a little extra to taste the vintage champagne, and then when you're walking through their 18 km of cellars on the tour, you see the same vintage champagne you're about to taste on a pedestal, under a spotlight, behind bars. No lie. Also, Jean-Remy Moët was personal friends with Napoleon, which is why all the Moët traditional champagnes say imperial on the label. Apparently every time Napoleon won a big battle, he'd travel to the House of Moët to celebrate with some of their bubbly. How ridiculously awesome is that? Now that I know that, I don't ever want to celebrate anything without a glass of Moët. Also, apparently Louis XV's mistress Madame du Pompadour said that champagne was the only wine that made women who drink it more beautiful. It's true, after three glasses, I felt totally hottttttttt. Who even cares what the champagne tastes like, after a tour like that? (It was pretty good, for the record.)