MERCIER CHAMPAGNE
Mercier Epernay. The most popular cellar tour of all (Mercier is the best selling Champagne in France). Just turn up during office hours (closed 11.30-2 for lunch), and pay the admission fee of around FF40. Admire the world's biggest barrel built in 1889 - the visitor centre was built around it! There is a short audio-visual presentation and then you descend via a lift 30m into the cellars. Then board a laser-guided train for your tour of the 18km long galleries, which were once the scene of a car rally! Several elaborate bas-relief carvings. A Champagne tasting follows in the souvenir shop.