Private Full-Day Tour of Champagne Region

Name: Private Full-Day Tour of Champagne Region
Brand: Tabl
SKU: NEP33V
Price: 1763.00 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)

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English

What you’ll do

Discover the vineyards of the famous Champagne region on this private 10-hour tour from Paris. Your personalized guide takes your group of up to six people to taste delicious bubbly at a top Champagne producer, such as Moët-et-Chandon, Taittinger or Veuve-Cliquot, as well as one smaller producer in La Montagne de Reims or Marne Valley. Visit the historic town of Hautvillers and learn how Champagne began with a monk. Stop by Reims Cathedral, where the kings of France were once crowned, before returning to Paris.

Highlights

Private 10-hour tour of the Champagne region from Paris
Explore the Champagne vineyards with just your friends and family (six people)
Taste Champagne at three different places
Learn the history behind the famous French bubbly drink
Snap photos of the majestic Reims Cathedral
Hotel pickup and drop-off included

Itinerary

A wonderful day of excursion and tasting through the "Montagne de Reims".

- Visit and tasting of a prestigious Champagne house in Epernay or Reims such as Moët-et-Chandon or Taittinger

Travel time from Paris is about 2h

Visit the beautiful Gothic cathedral of Reims where most French Kings were crowned.

Bombed and burnt during first world War, it was restored and there can be seen nice stained gall windows by Chagall

Travel time is about 30 mn to get there

Time for lunch: 1h30

Visit Hautvillers, attractive village on the southern slope of the Montagne de Reims, with old houses and hand-painted wrought-iron signs, it forms part of the three top wine-growing areas of Ay, Hautvillers and Avenay.

Dom Perignon (1638-1715), who is buried in the old abbey church, was in charge of the cellars of the Benedictine abbey. The monk was the first to blend various wines to produce Champagne. He also supervised the double fermentation process and initiated the use of cork. Dom Perignon invented the science of Champagne and personifies the spirit of the Champagne people, a mix of method and audacity.

- Tasting at one or two smaller Champagne producer in a village in the vineyard of 'la Montagne de Reims' or in the Marne valley.