Your Valentines Weekend Champagne Visit will start in style. When you arrive at your hotel, you will have a bottle of chilled Champagne waiting for you in your room.

Your Valentines Weekend Champagne Visit will then continue with a romantic candlelit 4 course dinner for two on the Friday night in a premium restaurant in central Reims.

Your Valentines Weekend indludes a full day tour on the Saturday in a luxury coach, and is designed to give you a full insight into the Champagne making process. You will visit one of the prestigious Champagne 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 Champagne Houses where you can do just this. Your Valentines Weekend will include a visit to a house that concentrates on the vineyards, where you will see the vines in their varying states during the year and learn about the soil and climatic influences on Champagne making. There will be another visit to a small Champagne House where you will concentrate on the work in the winery – looking at the presses, fermentation and disgorgement process. One of these smaller houses will be a Grand Cru house where the Champagne is produced using grapes from the very best vineyard plots in the region.

Naturally, being Valentines Weekend we have included within the tour, a visit to a romantic museum, that focuses ont he link betweekn Champagne, romance and marriage.

As seasoned Grape Escapes clients will know, in addition to the Champagne, we also consider fine dining to be a prerequisite. Therefore our Valentines Weekend will include a 3 course lunch at a restaurant where each course is accompanied by a different single varietal Champagne

As well as learning about the champagne making process, our Valentines Visit to Champagne 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 descriptions below