The Meier's German Adventure

In the town of Epernay,our first stop was the champagne house of Mercier. Eugene Mercier opened this champagne house in 1858. Behind us in the picture is a huge vat that was made for the World's Fair in 1889. Mercier traveled to Hungary to hand pick the oak trees for the vat's construction. Once finished, he filled it with over 200,000 bottles of champagne, and had it pulled by 24 oxen and 18 horses to the fair in Paris. It took 8 days to get there where he emptied the vat!