3 days in Champagne - Cellars, tastings, winemakers meetings and heritage

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• Reims, France

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3 days (approximately)

Pickup offered

Offered in: English and 1 more

This tour is totally private. Your guide will take care of you all during these 3 days. He will explain you the history and give you most of the information through funny stories to have a good. In 3 days, you'll have a gobal overview of the champagne and Reims UNESCO heritage: the big houses and the small producers. You will taste 4 different big houses champagne the first day and 2 small producers with minimum 8 glasses the second day and 4 other glasses the third day !
Are you ready to go off the beaten path and taste the best champagnes and vist the heritage sites ?

What's Included

Private transportation

Champagne tastings !

Lunch (Optional[3])
Lunch

Breakfast (Optional[2])
Breakfast

Drinks during lunch are in extra

Diners are not included

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points

You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).

Pickup details:

Pickup in any place in Reims or Epernay. Hotels and train stations. If you stay in Paris, you can commute to Reims within only 45 min by train. Just ask the train time. We will pick you up directly to the station in Reims and drive you back at the end of the tour.

Itinerary

Duration: 3 days (approximately)

Day 1

Big houses of Champagne

5 stops

Vranken Pommery

Visit the cellars, enjoy a tasting in the old vinification centre and have a look to the brand shop. You will cross the champagne cellar where there are the biggest bottles of champagne ageing.

2 hours • Admission ticket included

Veuve Clicquot

Visit the shop with all the beautiful branding products and enjoy a tasting at Veuve CLicquot tasting room.

1 hour • Admission ticket included

Moet Et Chandon

Visit the cellars, taste Moet champagne and enjoy the shop with Moet and Dom Perignon bottles and branding products

2 hours • Admission ticket included

Mercier

Enjoy a cellar visit by small train ! See all without walking. Then have a tasting and a look to the shop and the biggest Champagne oak barrel fone for 200.000 bottles !

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included

Avenue de Champagne

Driva along the famous Champagne avenue in Epernay

30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Day 2

Small producers discovery

3 stops

Verzenay

Visit a small producer in the mountain of Reims. The winemaker selected is in Grand Cru village. The winemaker will do a private visit of you : press centre, vinification centre and cellars. Taste 3 different champagnes with the winemaker who will comment the tasting only for you.

2 hours • Admission ticket free

Visit a winemaker in a "1er cru" classified village of Champagne. Visit his cellar, learn his history and his way of making the champagne. Taste different champagnes from an other village with totally different tastes than the first one visited. Taste 3 different champagnes with the winemaker who will comment the tasting only for you.

2 hours • Admission ticket free

Enjoy the UNESCO classified landscapes of Champagne with a drive through the vineyards.