On October 7, 2006 the grape harvest for the production of the Grand Vin of Rheims took place. A coproduction of Nicolas Boulard and Association of the friends of Frac Champagne-Ardenne. We visited another face of Champagne and its soils, with discovered ignored type of vines.

- 9h00: Appointment in Frac Champagne-Ardenne for a breakfast briefing (mountain of crescents…), constitution of the teams, distribution of the pieces to be gathered the grapes.

- 10h00: Departure for the grape harvest with foot, in bus or car.

- 14h00: Delivery of the grapes in Frac Champagne-Ardenne for a manual pressing.

- 20h00: A "cochelet" offered to the vintagers (the famous meal of end of grape harvest during which Nicolas Boulard will invite us to taste various vintages that it already produced such as the Vintage 2001, the Insane Wine, H2O and another Diagonal of insane).

Here a small arithmetic calculation is essential… 2kg grape make it possible to produce one liter of wine. We have 58 pieces, if we collect 2 kg per piece, we obtain 116 kg of grape, which enables us to produce approximately 155 bottles or 310 half-bottles. (I prefer to produce half-bottles, thus one can consume one and keep the other of them).

Attention, in a preoccupation with a quality, it acts well to gather the grapes fresh grape, sold with the ray fruit and vegetables and not of dryed grapes, ray pastry making, or grape limps about it with the ray preserves, and even less grape juice of the ray drink.

List of the different area:

Champion Balourdet 4 Bis av Epernay 51100 Reims
K-S. Alimentation Orientale 5 av Christophe Colomb 51100 Reims
Monoprix Reims Erlon 34 r Jeanne d'Arc 51100 Reims
Balourdet Alain 27 av Paris 51100 Reims
Galeries Lafayette 33 r Vesle 51100 Reims
Gomes Manuel 27 r Créneaux 51100 REIMS
8 à Huit 25 r Ste Geneviève 51100 REIMS
Intermarché 58 bd Wilson 51100 REIMS
Klein Jean-Claude 116 r Gambetta 51100 REIMS
Koaibi Abdellah 47 r Cérès 51100 REIMS
Le Marché de Cernay 69 r Cernay 51100 REIMS
Le Mutant 28 pl Jean Moulin 51100 REIMS
Le Mutant 422 av Laon 51100 REIMS
Le Verger de Sainte Anne 66Bis r Clovis Chezel 51100 REIMS
Leader Price r Jean d'Arvor 51100 REIMS
L'Entrepôt r Jacques Maritain 51100 REIMS
Les Palmiers de Marrackech 14 all Pervenches 51100 REIMS
Marché Plus 141 av Jean Jaurès 51100 REIMS
Marché Plus 6 pl Argonautes 51100 REIMS
Marché Plus 67 av Laon 51100 REIMS
Méditransit 15 pl Pierre de Fermat 51100 REIMS
Mimouni Houssine 15 pl René Clair 51100 REIMS
Mozart Market 29 pl Mozart 51100 REIMS
Ougarane (SARL) 179 r Neufchâtel 51100 REIMS
Petit Casino 14 pl Forum 51100 REIMS
Prim'Frais 100 bd Charles Arnould 51100 REIMS
Proxi Store 3 r Jean d'Orbais 51100 REIMS
Schmitt Dominique 13 pl Paul Claudel 51100 REIMS
Shopi 7 av Georges Hodin 51100 REIMS
Spar 39 r Libergier 51100 REIMS
Supermarché Champion 31 r Neufchâtel 51100 REIMS
Supermarché Champion 5Bis av Clemenceau 51100 REIMS
Supermarché Comod 2 pl Lisieux 51100 REIMS
Supermarchés Match 2 r Pierre Taittinger 51100 REIMS
Sympa 289Bis r Courlancy 51100 REIMS
Zlitni Aziza 43 r Camille Lenoir 51100 REIMS
A-J Alimentation 92 r Gustave Laurent 51100 REIMS
A 2 Pas 104 r Emile Zola 51100 REIMS
Afric-Asie Alimentation av Gén Bonaparte 51100 REIMS
Afrique Exotique 76 r Gambetta 51100 REIMS
Au Petit Marché 136 r Cernay 51100 REIMS
Bakassou Ali 90 av Jean Jaurès 51100 REIMS
Bisbal Epicerie Fine 135 r Vesle 51100 REIMS
Boussaid et Fils 320 av Laon 51100 REIMS
Carrefour 2 rte Cernay 51100 REIMS
Casino Supérette 129 av Laon 51100 REIMS
Chafaa Alimentation 11 pl Pierre de Fermat 51100 REIMS
Champion 28 r Courcelles 51100 REIMS
Champion 82 r Gambetta 51100 REIMS
Champion Jacquart 47 r Gosset 51100 REIMS
Cora Nord r Neufchâtel 51100 REIMS
Cybermarché 3 pl Louis Demaison 51100 REIMS
Debdoubi Saïd 6 all Yves Gandon 51100 REIMS
Dinar Abdelilah 2 r Barbâtre 51100 REIMS
Ecomarché 2 r Chatelet 51100 REIMS
Ferat Claude 207 av Jean Jaurès 51100 REIMS
Flash Service 80 r Capucins 51100 REIMS
Forum Primeurs 10 pl Forum 51100 REIMS