From Paris: Tour to Champagne Area Including a Top Champagne House & Family Winery in Semi-Private

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What you’ll do

Leave Paris behind and head off with your expert guide to the prestigious Moet and Chandon* Champagne house in Epernay, the Champagne Capital. Easily boasting the largest Champagne cellars in the world, this luxury Champagne house is home to some 17 miles (28 km) of underground tunnels where their world-famous sparkling wine matures.

Itinerary

Start Time: 0730 AM

Duration: 11 HRS

Meeting Point: 2, bis avenue Foch, 75116 Paris. Opposite Le Duplex Club

At the end of your 1,5-hour walking tour around the cellars, sample a glass of Champagne and discuss its complex creation with the fellow Champagne lovers in your group.

After lunch, hop back on board your air-conditioned minivan and leave Epernay, for a ride around Reims Mountain Regional Nature Park, home to Grand Crus vineyards, before reaching Hautvillers with your guide. Known as ‘the birthplace of Champagne,’ this charming village is best-known for its most famous ex-resident, Dom Pérignon, the innovative Benedictine monk who dedicated most of his life to producing and perfecting Champagne.

After enjoying the beauty of the vine, and little villages and making a few stops en route, you will reach the last stop of your day will be dedicated to the visit of a family-run winery where you will have the opportunity to taste 4 different Champagnes before returning to Paris.

(*) Moet & Chandon, Mercier, Taittinger or similar...