Reims & Epernay: Veuve Clicquot Tour & Family Winery Lunch

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Duration8h 10m

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN

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Nine Tastings, Two Wineries & Lunch in the Champagne Vineyards

You visit Veuve Clicquot's underground cellars and taste four cuvées, walk through Hautvillers village overlooking UNESCO vineyards, eat lunch at a family winery with wine included, and taste four more cuvées at a second estate — nine tastings across two houses in one day. Hotel pickup is available from Reims or Epernay, and the guide handles all the driving so you can focus on the wine and the landscape.

8h 10m

Step-by-step itinerary

Veuve Clicquot tour and Champagne tasting

Meet guide at Epernay or Reims
Visit Veuve Clicquot cellars
Taste four Veuve Clicquot cuvées
Explore Hautvillers village and vineyards
Enjoy lunch at Champagne estate
Visit family-run Champagne house
Tour ends in Epernay or Reims

The Experience

What does it feel like to stand 30 meters underground in the chalk cellars where Veuve Clicquot aged her first bottles? The tour starts there — either at 8:30am from Epernay or 9:20am from Reims train station, depending on which pickup you choose. Your guide meets you at the tourist office, and from there it's a short drive through the vineyards to the house itself. The cellars are cool and quiet, the walls lined with bottles stacked in the traditional way, and you taste four different cuvées as you walk through, learning how the house built its reputation in the 1800s.

After Veuve Clicquot, you drive to Hautvillers, the small village where Dom Pérignon lived and worked — the monk who's credited with perfecting the art of blending Champagne. It's a short walk through narrow streets and past the abbey, and then you stop at a viewpoint that overlooks the UNESCO-listed vineyards rolling down toward the valley. The light changes the color of the vines depending on the hour, and it's the kind of view that makes you understand why people have been making wine here for centuries. Then comes lunch at a family-run estate — a proper meal, not a rushed tasting, with local food and more Champagne. Dietary needs are handled if you mention them when you book.

The second winery visit happens in the afternoon, and this one is different because it's smaller and you get to see how a family operation actually works — the equipment, the process, the decisions they make about their blends. You taste four more cuvées here, so by the end of the day you've had nine tastings total, which sounds like a lot until you realize how much you've learned about what makes one Champagne taste different from another. The tour wraps up at 4:45pm in Epernay or 5:30pm in Reims, depending on where you started.

Groups stay under eight people, so it doesn't feel crowded, and the minivan is air-conditioned because the drive between stops can be warm in summer. Your guide speaks English and knows the region — they're not just reading facts, they're answering questions about why Champagne tastes the way it does and what the difference is between a house and a grower. If you're coming from outside the region, this saves you the work of renting a car, figuring out which estates to visit, and driving after tasting.

What’s included

Your day includes pickup from either Reims train station or Epernay tourist office, transport by air-conditioned minivan, admission and four tastings at Veuve Clicquot cellars, a guided walk through Hautvillers village, a viewpoint stop overlooking the UNESCO vineyards, a traditional lunch at a Champagne estate, admission and four tastings at a family-run winery, and an English-speaking guide for the full eight-hour experience.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelers

Operated by À La Française

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste Champagne at the source without arranging transport, choosing wineries, or navigating between them yourself — the fixed schedule and small group size mean you spend the day learning and tasting instead of planning.