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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

How long does this tour take?

This tour lasts approximately 11 hours.

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France

Paris: Champagne Private Tour Reims Cathedral, Cellars & Tasting

★★★★★ 5.0

11 hours

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Overview

Discover the Champagne region on a private full-day tour from Paris, combining Reims Cathedral, prestigious Champagne houses, vineyard tastings, and charming villages at your own pace. Travel in a private vehicle to Reims to visit its UNESCO-listed Gothic cathedral, followed by a guided cellar tour and tasting at a renowned Champagne house (Champagne Mumm or G.H. Martel & C°, subject to availability).

Enjoy free time in Reims for lunch or exploration before heading through the vineyards to a family-run producer, Champagne Roger Manceaux, for a more intimate tasting experience. On the way back, stop in Hautvillers, the birthplace of Champagne, where Dom Pérignon perfected the méthode champenoise.

A refined private Champagne experience blending history, iconic houses, authentic producers, and flexibility.

Please note: cellar tours are conducted in English or French only.

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What's Included

✓ Included

Free time in Reims to explore, eat and shop
Visit and tasting at Champagne Roger Manceaux
Round Trip in an Air-Conditioned Van privatized for you and your group
Visit and Champagne tasting at Martel or Mumm cellars
Pick-up and drop-off at your hotel or private accommodation within Paris
Trilingual guide (English/Spanish/French)
Tasting and cellar tours at two Champagne houses

✗ Not Included

Lunch
Gratuities

Itinerary

Stop 1

Tour of Reims Cathedral with commentary by our guide A masterpiece of Gothic art and one of Europe's major medieval achievements, remarkable for both its architecture and its statuary. Built in the 13th century, it has features that make it unique: its exceptional unity of style, its luminosity, and the richness of its statues. Intended to host the coronation of the kings of France, it was provided with the most beautiful of. Decorated with 2,303 carved motifs, Reims Cathedral is the only church to have angels with outstretched wings, including the famous Smiling Angel on the left portal of the façade. Most of the famous stained glass windows date from the 13th century. The three stained glass windows in the axial chapel are the work of Marc Chagall (1974).

Stop 2

Tour and tasting in the Martel cellars While preserving its family-run, intimate atmosphere, this Champagne House benefits from sublime medieval chalk cellars dug between the 4th and 15th centuries in the heart of Reims.

Stop 3

Cellar tour and Champagne tasting Champagne Manceaux is: 5 generations of enthusiasts; 5 villages in the Montagne de Reims classified as Premier Cru, and Mailly-Champagne classified as Grand Cru; 3 grape varieties: mainly Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier; sustainable viticulture for many years.

Stop 4

On the way back to Paris, you will discover the charming village of Hautvillers. It was in Hautvillers itself, in the former Benedictine abbey, that the cellarer monk Dom Pérignon discovered the method of champagnisation of wine in the 18th century.