- Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin - Cellar Tour and Tasting at Veuve-Clicquot or another famous Champagne House, based on your wishes and availability. The inhouse guide will take you through their historic cellars in the 2000 years old roman chalk pit mines, listed as a Unesco Heritage Site since 2015. At the end of the tour you will taste their Champagne wines, and visit their boutique.
Barbe-Nicole, the Widow Clicquot, became the first successful Businesswoman in the region, after a series of innovations and breakthroughs during the first half of the 1800s. Nowadays this prestigious house is part of LVMH, the largest luxury company in the world.
- Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Reims - Visit of Notre-Dame of Reims with a Certified French National Monument Guide.
This catholic church from the 13th Century is a masterpiece of the Gothic architecture, with thousands of intricate sculptures and marvelous stained-glass windows.
On this site in 496, Clovis the first king of France was baptised by Saint-Remi the bishop of Reims, which led more than 30 Kings of France to be crowned at the same place.
- Reims - Sightseeing drive-by of the city of Reims, the largest city in Champagne, with its main squares, Roman ruins, medieval monuments and Champagne Houses.
We’ll see the widest Roman arch in the world, the Louis XV square, the covered market, the Surrender Museum where the Nazis signed and many prestigious Champagne Houses: Roederer, Krug, Mumm, Veuve-Clicquot, Taittinger, Pommery…
The city was heavily bombed during WW1, which forced the city to rebuild in the 1920s, turning Reims into the Art Deco capital of France.
- Champagne Route (Route Touristique du Champagne) - Visit of the vineyards around Reims, stopping for pictures and explanations. You will marvel at the beautiful sights of the Champagne countryside, where church belltowers in medieval villages contrast against a background of lush forests and vines.
- Rilly-la-Montagne - Small Producer of Champagne
Cellar Tour and Tasting of a small producer of Champagne wines.
There are thousands of small champagne producers in the small villages, some of which produce high quality wines for a good quality/price ratio. You will visit a selected one, looking into their process, machines, cellar and tasting part of their range at the end.
- Private transportation
- Bottled water
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Tickets to Veuve Clicquot visit and tasting.
- Visit and tasting to a Boutique Champagne Producer
- Lunch
- Gratuities
This exceptional tour offers a firsthand experience of Veuve Clicquot, a boutique winery, along with the city of Reims. Our journey commences with an excursion to Veuve Clicquot where you’ll learn about Madame Clicquot’s story set in the backdrop of ancient roman mines, dating back 2000 years, followed by a sampling of their famed Champagne. Next, we move on to explore the globally renowned Notre Dame of Reims gothic Cathedral and a city tour of Reims, the hub of Mümm, Taittinger and more.
I’ll guide you to the top restaurants in Reims for a delightful lunch, where you get to pair Champagne with exotic dishes. Post lunch, a trip to the countryside awaits you featuring picturesque villages enveloped by vineyards, and a visit to a quaint Champagne producer is also planned. Here, you’ll gain insight into the process of Champagne production and savor 3 glasses of Champagne.
As a Certified Guide and a student of Sommelier with 7 years worth of guiding experience in Champagne, I enthusiastically look forward to conveying my passion for History, Culture, and Wines to you. Fun times assured!
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
