Châlons en Champagne Archives • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

June 19, 2025June 20, 2025

Try champagne in Châlons en Champagne

This town in the Champagne area is a really cute town to visit and they have a nice champagne winery to visit. Enjoy the photos with Bill Smale Adventures.

Châlons en Champagne — Our guy is showing us the different bottle sizes. He confirmed that the largest bottle size is not the one used to celebrate at the races.

Châlons en Champagne Yeast settling — Down in the caves you can see how these bottles are stored in order to get the yeast to settle so they can extract it. Sometimes the extraction is done by hand.

Settling yeast — The shows a bottle with yeast that still needs to settle.

Yeast venting

Cool cave — As with all wine caves this one is nice and cool. It was pretty warm outside.

Grape types — These are the three types of grapes used for their champagne at Châlons en Champagne. Only the Chardonnay grape is used for the Blanc de Blanc.

Vineyard map — This shows their vineyards throughout the champagne area.

Front entrance — The front entrance

Parking mushroom — A parking mushroom

River houses — Old houses on the river

Old church — Beautiful old church

Chinese restaurant — A Chinese restaurant named Angkor . I wonder if they’re playing with the Cambodian Temple complex name.

Perfume shop — Typical French perfume shop

Old buildings — Beautiful old buildings in Châlons en Champagne

Decoration — I think this lights up in the evening

Securing a building — Making sure this building doesn’t fall while they are putting up a new building beside it.

Eglise Collégiale Notre-Dame-en-Vaux — Pipe organ in Eglise Collégiale Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

Beautiful windows — Beautiful stained glass window

Original church — The original remains from the church

Original stone panel — One of the original stone panels

War memorial — A memorial for war dead

Canal map — the map of the canal and locks

Canal lock — The different locks in the canals in France allow boats to travel all over the country

Going up to the lock — a boat travels up to the lock

Control light — There is a control light indicating whether they should enter or wait

Entering the lock — The boat passes the first lock and up to the administration window

Securing the boat — The boat owner ties the boat to the stanchions to make sure it’s not moving too much

Ready to untie — When the lock is filled she can then untie the boat and proceed through the next lock

Front gate — This is the front lock gate

Fishing — Why not go fishing?

Old building — a beautiful old building