Had a great time at the tasting room of Collard Picard yesterday! Our hostess was very…read moreknowledgeable on the champagnes we tasted, and it was a relatively quiet Wednesday afternoon our party of six seemed to have the room to ourselves! We opted for the prestige tasting, my favorite was the second champagne, the blanc to blanc and their rose was very interesting to my palette since I haven't been exposed to many first cuvée roses before!

J.M. Rigot is one of the wineries you have to book to get in for a tasting. We did, and we are very…read moreglad. They did warn us in advance that they don't speak English. I'm getting fairly decent at following along (or so I'm deluding myself), but my partner can translate fairly decently. While we were here, we had one of their Brut champagnes, but they also do Rose champagne made with being in contact with the red wine skins as opposed to adding red wine to the champagne. It was delicious. We bought four bottles of wine. We also got a tour of the facility and the wine making process. We were really happy with the wine here and I highly recommend stopping in to get some of your own.