Absolutely fantastic!!! One of the best tours I've ever experienced. Must do in Champagne!! Also, our guide Ana was an absolute gem!
Review by: Dawn S, April 2018
This Champagne tour and tasting was the highlight of our visit to France. Our tour guide, Martin, was charming, grew up in the region and enjoyed sharing his knowledge about Champagne. The Tasting 101 lesson was fun, interesting, informative and delicious. The Champagne paired lunch was superb and served in a warm, cozy setting. The private tour of a small Champagne producer was extra special and personal versus commercial. We highly recommend this tour to anyone who loves Champagne!
Review by: dockcf, January 2018
Ended up having a private tour as it was only my and my husband who booked the tour: Martin our guide was great, very friendly and helpful. As it was low season, big champagne houses were not open but we still had a great time in Epernay. Champagne class was very informative.
Review by: Zee A, January 2018
Drinking Champagne in Champagne! This tour was so much better than the trendy Vueve Cliqot and Moet tours. I enjoyed so much getting to freely sample the champagne from smaller champagne houses and visit the caves. I even brought back a few bottles that I could never get in the states. This tour was one of the best tours I've ever done! A wonderful and unique tour with just 7 of us. I felt special, unlike most of the touristy champagne venues.
Review by: Kyle H, January 2018
This tour was one of the best tours I've ever done! The guided tour throughout the region was fantastic! The class on how to make champagne was amazing, we learned so much! I already have and will continue to recommend this to any of my friends going to Paris. Excellent opportunity to get out of the city and into the champagne region. Despite all of the amazing things we saw and ate in Paris this was the highlight of our trip to France!
Review by: Jessica F, December 2017
A wonderful half day experience. Mathias was very accommodating when I called to let them know my train was arriving late. Martin gave me a full rundown of the process of making champagne which was engaging and interesting. We had two wonderful tastings, and did a tour of a small winery. Excellent
Review by: Dennis M, December 2017
The tour was so much fun. The guides were very friendly and very knowledgeable.
Review by: Janelle L, October 2017
Great half day with a knowledgable guide. Value for money but would have been good to stop in the champagne avenue of Epenay. Reasonable amount of champagne tastings and plenty of information about the area.
Review by: Debbie C, September 2017
Great tour, exactly as advertised and more. Our guides Mathias and Louise were extremely knowledgeable, personable and enthusiastic. The champagne houses visited were friendly and welcoming. Couldn't have asked for more. 5 stars .
Review by: Jessica A, September 2017
Learned so much about champagne and how it is made. The guides were knowledgeable, spoke English well, and were very fun and friendly. We got to taste approx. 12 different champagnes - all of which were amazing. And the prices per bottle to buy were pretty reasonable. We only wish we had done the full day to experience even more with this group!
Review by: Seppo H, August 2017
We participated a half-day tour from Reims to Epernay region, and it was a great experience well worth the cost. Our guide Kathy was a native from the region with an international career in champagne business, and had recently started the job as a guide. She certainly had all the knowledge you could expect about champagne and making it, and she was also telling it all to the tour participants with great devotion and in a nice and fun way. Seemed to enjoy the work a lot, too, so we felt very lucky and could not imagine how to be guided any better. The trip included a class with explanation about the process of making the wine, and then tasting a few different products, trying to discover the different aromas - and that is not very easy, but now we feel at least a bit more knowledgeable about it! There was a stop at a very nice viewpoint with vines all around, and then a visit to a small producer, where the actual process and caves were shown to us. A tasting of the products of this house completed the trip before returning to Reims. To find things to criticize is hard the only thing that comes to mind is that when sitting on the back seat of the van while driving towards Epernay it was at times a bit hard to hear what our guide was telling. Told about it to her, and she agreed and said they should arrange a mic to solve the issue. Overall an excellent tour!
Review by: kevinarcy, July 2017
Our tour guide Matthias was wonderful. His knowledge of the region and the making of champagne was complete. The half day tour lasted about 5 hours. I wish it could have been 10. The region is beautiful. We stopped a a couple of locations where it looks like the vineyards go on forever.
Review by: VIOLET T, July 2017
The tour was well worth the money. No having to drive meant my husband and I could relax and enjoy the views. The tours were informative and we learnt a lot about champagne. Our tour guide Louise, was really good and helpful.
Review by: Myrna C, June 2017
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Robert F, June 2017
I cant say enough. Just a wonderful and uniaue tour. With just 6 people and a tour of a small champagne house, this was a special retreat into a world unlike most tourist venues. Just do it, you will not regret it
Review by: Jennifer K, June 2017
Our guide was very knowledgable and friendly. Her English was excellent and her passion for the Champagne region was great. I really enjoyed seeing the family run business and sampling their champagne, which was excellent. The master class was interesting but if you do a half day tour instead of the full day tour, you really don't get an opportunity to do a full tasting because the class focuses on the difference between a champagne that is too young for resale and more aged champagne. I would have preferred to have the concepts of the class explained in a more condensed fashion and then do a full tasting where some of the class could still be explained.
Review by: crystal a, June 2017
So much fun and a great value! The tasting class taught us how to pick out different flavors and how to read the labels to discern where the grapes came from and the quality, etc. I had no idea how tedious the process of making champagne can be! My favorite was the tour of the family owned winery, P. Lancelot-Royer. The owner's wife gave us the tour, walked us through every step of the wine making process, and graciously answered all of our questions. We were treated to several tastings from the family winery-all of which were delicious. The day came to a close at the top of a hill over looking the gorgeous scenery with a glass of Moet bubbly. We had an awesome group of 8 Americans. Our guide, Lorilei, was super fun, informative, and spoke perfect English. By the end of the trip, everyone had exchanged social media contacts and it felt like a day spent with a bunch of friends in an unbelievably picturesque location. Absolute perfection. Worth every penny.
Review by: mellabella2009, May 2017
Love this company. Our tour guide Kathy Was phenomenal. We look forward to doing the full day tour when we return to France!
Review by: Susan M, May 2017
This is one of those tours that is worth every penny! Matthias was prompt, professional, and yet affable and really enjoyed sharing his knowledge with us. His affinity for the area in which he grew up shone through! We learned a bit about identifying various characteristics in champagne, went out into the vineyards and toured a small producer's impressive grounds, along with a tasting of several of his champagnes. It was a long, leisurely afternoon, filled with beautiful scenery, Mattias' fabulous guidance and CHAMPAGNE!!! Don't hesitate to book this...you won't regret it!
Review by: gravlyr, February 2017
I had a fabulous time on this tour. Being able to have a private tour in Reims and Epernay was a dream come true. At one point I just stopped taking pictures just to relish the views. The Champagne Education was very informative and really allowed us to get a clear picture of the Champagne process. Our guide went over and above to make this a once in a lifetime adventure. I plan to return to take the full day tour!
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