Your Adventure Champagne Tour is designed to give you a full insight into the Champagne making process. You will visit one of the prestigious houses based in the centre of Reims or Epernay. The sight of millions of bottles of Champagne maturing in the underground cellars is truly breath-taking. Some of the cellars are within chalk Crayères which were excavated by the Romans and others were purpose built over the last 150 years. The visit to the prestigious house will include a tour of the cellars and conclude with tastings of their Champagnes.

Whilst the large houses show the majesty and grandeur that can be found in Champagne making, there is nothing better than meeting the maker and seeing the passion which he or she puts into their art. We therefore focus our tours on visiting the smaller houses where you can do just this. Your Adventure Champagne Weekend Tour will include a visit to a medium sized house where you will start off the tour by abseilling 100ft into their cellars (stairs available at no extra cost). Once down, you will receive a tour of their cellars and House before finishing by tasting several Champagnes.

As seasoned Grape Escapes clients will know, in addition to the Champagne, we also consider fine dining to be a prerequisite. Therefore our Adventure Champagne Weekend Tour will include a tradfitional 3 course lunch as the guests of yet another Champagne House. You will start your visit here by learning sabrage (the art of opening the Champagne bottle with a sword). This was Napoleon's favoured method for opening his Champagne! After this, you will enjoy lunch accompanied by all of the Champagnes that the group has opened. The visit will conclude with a tour of the full Champagne making process at the House.

As well as learning about the champagne making process, our Adventure Champagne Tour includes a local English speaking tour guide who will give you information on the region, its specialities and history.

For full details of what is included, please see the description below