Champagne Cellars | Michel Jolyot

Big or small, humble or majestic, all these cellars that winemakers, cooperatives, and Champagne houses use to craft Champagne wines constitute a unique architectural heritage in the world. Their tangled and dense network, where newcomers get lost as if in a labyrinth, forms real underground cities with around 500 kilometers of narrow streets and wide boulevards along which cellar workers, with their precise and confident gestures, work in an almost monastic silence. Jean-Luc Barbier, Chief Executive of the Champagne Wine Interprofessional Committee