Half Day Champagne Highlights Tours
One key success of our half day tour relies on keeping driving to a minimum and experience time to a maximum! Below are sample itineraries to give you an idea of some of the options starting early morning or after lunch. If you would like a lunch during the tour check out our full day tours.
Discovery Tours - 4hrs
• Option 1 - Moet + Tasting Rooms Stop
• Option 2 - Veuve + 1 Family Vineyard Visit
• Option 3 - Taittinger + 1 Family Vineyard Visit
• Option 4 - 2 Family Vineyard Visits & Tastings
• Option 5 - Custom Planned
Premium Tour - 5hrs
• Option 1 - Moet + Veuve
• Option 2 - Ruinart + 1 Family Vineyard & Tastings
• Option 3 - Taittinger + Immersive Family Vineyard Visit with Vine Walk
• Option 4 - High End Independent Vineyard + Tasting at 2 Luxury Brands
• Option 5 - Famous House + 1 Family Vineyard Visit & Tastings
• Option 6 - 3 Family Vineyard Visits/Curated Tastings
• Option 7 - Dom Perignon + 1 Family Vineyard Visit & Tasting
• Option 8 - Custom Planned
Houses & Family Vineyards
Public visits at Famous Houses are made in English in groups from 12 to 20 and include cellar tours followed by tastings. Lanson, Nicolas Feuillatte and Canard Duchene include visits in their production facilities and Lanson includes a visit to their vines in their "Clos".
We select family vineyards where you can have an intimate and relaxed visit. After the visit you will taste a selection of 3-5 different types of Champagne. Depending on the season, you might see the harvest, techniques of pruning or grape tasting, the management of new and reserve wines, blending, second fermentation, or degorgement.
Other Details
• Tasting stops without visits are possible at Veuve and Perrier Jouet in the summer - Moet & Pommery year long
• Best trains to arrive from Paris 8:38 / 8:55 or 13:03
• Demand is significant on weekends. Fewer vineyards are open and staffing in English is more limited - especially Sundays when most small vineyards are closed.