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Vallée de la Marne

Meunier, the monk and Aÿ.

The river valley that runs from Aÿ almost to Paris, home of Meunier and of the monk everyone gets wrong. The real Dom Pérignon, the two banks and their soils, Aÿ and the grande vallée, Lily Bollinger and her bicycle, Épernay's avenue of houses, Mercier's giant cask, and the growers rewriting the valley's reputation.