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Épernay - Avenue de Champagne
The wealth isn't in the mansions. It's 30 meters underneath them. Beneath Moët & Chandon, Perrier-Jouët, and Pol Roger, 28 kilometers of tunnels cut into Roman chalk hold millions of bottles becoming Champagne in permanent darkness at 12°C. Moët alone produces 30 million bottles a year from these caves. Napoleon stopped here before battles to collect cases — he considered Champagne essential military supply. Walk the Avenue and you see facades. Descend into the caves and you're standing in the engine room — the cold, chalky silence where time and pressure do the only work that matters.
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