DAY 1
After picking you up at your hotel, your private guide will drive you to Reims, where you start the Champagne tour tour with the guided visit of the CATHEDRAL NOTRE DAME DE REIMS, a masterpiece of Gothic Art https://en.search.wordpress.com/?src=organic&q=Champagne Tour where the French Kings used to be crowned… statuary, paintings (Tintoretto), stained glass windows (exceptional panels created by Marc Chagall).
After this historical and artistic visit, you will enjoy a first visit and tasting in one of the renowned Champagne Houses : POMMERY, VEUVE CLICQUOT, TAITTINGER, etc.
It is time now for a nice lunch in a typical local French brasserie (not included)
After lunch, your guide will take you for another TASTING in one of the renowned Champagne Houses.
Before driving you back to your hotel, your private guide will stop for a short VISIT OF THE MARS GATE, the largest Roman Arch in the world – 100 feet long..40 feet high..
Night in Reims
DAY 2
Your guide will pick you up at your hotel and take you for a private guided visit of the ST REMI BASILICA ( 11th C Romanesque basilica with the tomb of Saint Remi, the patron Saint of Champagne… marvelous collection of stained glass windows), before taking you for your first VISIT AND TASTING.
On the way for your lunch, short photo stop to enjoy the VILLA DEMOISELLE , a jewel of Art Nouveau and Art Deco style, built in 1904 by Louis Sorel.
After lunch your guide will take you for your second TASTING, before visiting the MUSEUM OF SURRENDER (closed on Tuesdays) where on May 7th 1945 the Germans signed an unconditional surrender with the Americans, British, French, Russians…visit of Eisenhowers headquarters, map room, collection of Uniforms, war souvenirs, artifacts…
Night in Reims.
DAY 3
After picking you up at your hotel, your guide will drive you through the picturesque villages of the MONTAGNE DE REIMS such as VERZENAY, VERZY, before arriving in LUDES at the first Champagne House of the day : PLOYEZ-JACQUEMART.
After this tasting, your private guide will drive you to HAUTVILLERS, the birth place of Champagne, where Dom Perignon created the METHODE CHAMPENOISE. Visit of the ABBEY SAINT PIERRE.
Your guide will recommend you a a nice local restaurant for a pleasant lunch (not included).
After lunch your guide will drive you to Epernay to the famous Avenue du Champagne where you will have a VISIT AND TASTING at MOET & CHANDON before heading back to Paris.
(Tastings are not included in our rates, it costs approximately 25/35 euro per person and per tasting).
Entrance tickets not included
If you wish to visit a specific Champagne House, we would be pleased to check availability and book it for you.
On winter time some Champagne Houses are closed, most of them in January.
Extra charge for a pick up and/or a drop off outside Paris