Champagne is just outside of Paris! Join this small-group tour and you’ll discover the growing, harvesting, bottling, and proper way of tasting Champagne. You'll visit two very unique wineries, the Reims Cathedral, Dom Perignon's grave, and enjoy at least 6 tastings of different types of Champagnes. There is no better way to learn about wine than to see where it is made and to taste it with the person who made it! Join us and you will meet the Champagne winemakers walk through their vineyards of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes and explore their cellars full of bubbly wine!
Posted By : victoriar0211
My husband and I traveled to Champagne on an unseasonably cool day - plus rain. Tip: err on the side of extra layers, scarves etc as it was cooler than Paris and the caves are also chilly.
We enjoyed our pleasant and knowledgeable guide Nicholas and found the ride comfortable and enjoyable. Our first Champagne house stop was at a small producer where Nicholas gave us a brief tour and then enjoyed 3 delicious tastes.
The pours were generous but after going all that way I was eager to taste more. The lunch stop Epernay is a good opportunity for that - I wish we were given a more thorough description of what the area had to offer, other than a very quick point to 3 lunch options. I would have preferred a longer stop in the town (and a shorter tour at the afternoon stop).
Our pm stop was at Nicolas Feuillate. That facility was a monster of a production! Some of it was interesting and impressive but the highly designed tour was too long for me - and it was repetitive on what we had already be taught about champagne earlier. Being so tired from the early wake up and jet lag didn’t lend well to a slow tour. Note that there is no seating for enjoying your tastings at the end of the tour. We really liked the wines and bought plenty to take back to the US!
The traffic was horrendous on the way back- so glad we weren’t driving but it made us very much appreciate the train!
It was as advertised - but I still think this tour could benefit from some small touches of hospitality such as extra waters in the van and a small snack in the morning. Otherwise I recommend this tour as a way to cover a lot of ground in the region without a lot of personal effort—especially if you are truly interested in learning a fair amount about Champagne.
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Posted On : 2024-06-02 07:32:04 
Posted By : bart0269
Our guide Clem took us to a unique family owned champagne producer, along with other beautiful stops throughout the day. We would not have had as great of an experience doing it on our own. She had great knowledge to share with us and was very friendly. Great way to leave Paris for a day and learn about Champagne.
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Posted On : 2024-06-01 09:42:19
Posted By : Michael_C
Enzo was a great guide and was a pleasure to be with all day. The tour included a look at the traditional, manual way of processing grapes to make champagne and the mass production using newer technology. Both produced great champagnes but are done very differently.
Both tour guides at the wineries were pleasant with great knowledge of the process and helped to educate us well.
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Posted On : 2024-05-31 16:07:02 
Posted By : Almiria_G
It was a lovely experience. I enjoyed Pierre Domi champagne house. The Blanc de Blanc was my favorite.
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Posted On : 2024-05-29 11:33:08
Posted By : 300danic99
Unfortunately this tour did not live up to expectations and was poor value for money. Our tour guide seemed untrained and wasn’t very talkative, so there was a dearth of information and insight as we went around. The first stop at Fagot was good, however no one from the actual winery showed us around, just our young and inexperienced guide.
The second stop at Feuillatte had a very good guide from the winery, however the winery itself is just a big mass- producer so it was all steel and machines, and the champagne itself was not great. Interesting, but not what we expected when visiting the region.
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Posted On : 2024-05-29 11:15:07
Posted By : 210rhondab
We had a fantastic time on our Champagne tour with Will as our guide. It turned out that my husband and I were the only ones on the tour. I wondered if other companies might cancel the tour in this situation, but Blue Fox/Will went forward with our now private tour. Lucky us! Will is very engaging and knowledgeable about the Champagne region and France in general. He also very kindly gave us many practical and language tips as our ability to speak French is deplorable. The tour itself was perfect, with visits to both a small family run vineyard and larger winery. Both tours were quite interesting and we learned the champagne making process from two contrasting perspectives. We also had ample time for a visit to Notre Dame in Reims and the burial site of Dom Perignon. A lovely day with delicious champagne tasting.
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Posted On : 2024-05-25 02:18:27
Posted By : aislins2024
Such a great day out! Julian was an excellent guide, friendly and very knowledgeable of champagne, both the region and the wine! Good amount of time at each stop to explore. Definitely recommend this for anyone wanting to experience champagne in Champagne! We learnt a lot about how the wine is uniquely made, also Reims cathedral was excellent.
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Posted On : 2024-05-23 02:06:46
Posted By : susansN7429YQ
Our guide Kareem was amazing and delightful. The first champagne house we went to was a small family producer and Kareem gave us a tour and then we had a tasting, and it was very enjoyable. We did find it strange at both places that they did not give you any small pieces of bread or some thing as a pallet cleanser between tastings… The next place we went was a mass producer. The tour was interesting but redundant in terms of the explanation, as we already knew how champagne was made from our the first one, and I will say that our guide made it much more interesting at the first place. The tastings Were done in a big room where they had us stand the entire time which after walking around for at least an hour was not the most pleasant way to enjoy the champagne. There were 18 of us just standing for probably close to another hour The tastings were all a generous amount but it didn’t make for an enjoyable experience tasting champagne.
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Posted On : 2024-05-21 04:07:04
Posted By : 446annabelr
I had a wonderful day. The two wineries, one small, one enormous, were both fascinating. Our guide, Julien, was very charming. The only thing that let it down was the lunch, where you had to just grab a takeaway. Something planned, no matter how simple, would have made the day even better. Both wineries were very generous with their champagne tastings. Perhaps it would be possible to have a cheese platter, for example, at the second winery?
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Posted On : 2024-05-20 01:38:46
Posted By : Julie M
Really enjoyed the two other couples in our your. Our guide Victor was pleasant and informative. Loved seeing Pierre Domi. The daughter was our tour guide and was fun and informative. Bought two cases of champagne. Also enjoyed see the commercial process as well but wish to support the smaller vineyards. The drive back was very busy but the driver was kind to let us off early as it was closer to our hotel. To our surprise, the other two couples hopped off as well as it was closer to their hotel as well. We were all in the Latin quarter off saint michel!
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Posted On : 2024-05-16 03:20:44
