Join us for this exceptional small group tour from Paris to the Champagne region, home of the world’s most celebrated sparkling wine! We’ve selected for you the best places to visit in Champagne, from the biggest house to a boutique winery, so you can enjoy yourself all day long. Your English-speaking guide will drive you through the beautiful vineyards and give you plenty of anecdotes about the secrets of Champagne, a place where the uniqueness of the soils combines with the climate and the expertise of the winemakers to produce the famous drink, symbol of celebration and elegance for centuries across the world.

We will pick you up at your hotel or apartment in the morning and offer you delicious and buttery freshly baked croissants while driving to Champagne (around 1h30).
As soon as you arrive in the vineyards, you will be struck by the beauty of the landscape as you are given precious information about the history of the region, its most important characters and the process of Champagne production.
Your day will start in style, with a guided tour through the maze of cellars of one of the world’s biggest bubbles producers, like Champagne Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Pommery… Learn about their unique history and the production tasting their flagship cuvee with the house sommelier.
After the visit, enjoy a walk on the « Avenue de Champagne » in Epernay, a mythical street hosting only Champagne houses with totally different styles of architectures.
Following a short drive, depending on our schedule, discover the village of Hautvillers and its abbey, where Dom Pérignon used to work as a cellar master over 300 years ago and make Champagne. Learn more about this legendary character and about his influence on the style and reputation of the drink.

For lunch, settle at the table of a family-run intimate winery where you will enjoy a delicious 3 course meal of regional food, paired with different Champagnes from the house, as well as a local wine specialty, the Ratafia Champenois!

Your guide will take you to his favorite spot to enjoy a magnificent view over the vineyard, take postcard worthy pictures, and have an introduction to vine growing ! Learn about all the specificities of the terroir in Champagne, and what is currently being done in the vines…
The last stop will be at a boutique winery where you will see all the tools used to produce Champagne… By the end of the day you are guaranteed to be a bubbles expert ! Of course, you will taste several Champagne there.
After all these discoveries and emotions, your guide will drive you back to Paris and drop you off at your location in Paris in the late afternoon.

This amazing Sancerre private wine day tour from Paris will transport you in another world! Our wine lover team has planned an exclusive day in Sancerre for you, to discover the specificities of that area, to taste the wines and to explore the villages ! 

Your guide will pick you up at your hotel, and drive you (approx. 2h30) towards the Sancerre region while you enjoy delicious freshly baked croissants. Your wine-expert guide will lead you through the beautiful countryside, in the heart of the vinyeards.
You’ll arrive at the first visit. Learn all the basics about Sancerre wine and the history of the region, so you can start the day with a lot of knowledge.
You’ll be expert enough to know why the Terres Blanches, Calcaires and Silex terroirs are so different and what impact they have on the wine ! Taste the first wines of the day and put into practice what you’ve just learned about the three Sancerre terroirs.

After this first visit, it’s time for lunch! But before that, you’ll have a chance to enjoy a magnificient view of the Sancerre vineyards and the hills full of grapes. This is the perfect time to learn about the process of viticulture.
After this fun time, you’ll arrive at a family-run winery where you’ll enjoy a traditional French lunch with local specialities such as the famous Crottin de Chavignol and a wine pairing! This will be the perfect moment to be transported into the winemaker’s world.

To dive into the authentic secrets of Sancerre visit an intimate and small vineyard. You’ll discover the vinification cellar, the barrel cellar, the storage cellar, and much more!
This is also the time to taste wines other than Sancerre, there are other beautiful appelations close by and many of Sancerre’s makers produce Pouilly-Fumé, Côteau-du-Giennois or Menetou-Salon. Even if they are very close to Sancerre, there wines are really different and interesting to taste!Finally, your guide will take you safely back to Paris, with your head full of memories of this unforgettable day in the Sancerre region. You will be dropped off back at your location in Paris in the late afternoon.