Champagne Day Trip: Reims Cathedral, Tastings & Vineyards｜France

Your day begins at a Paris train station, where you'll meet your local
guide and board the high-speed train. Forty-five minutes later, you step
off in Reims — the city of kings, where French monarchs were crowned for
a thousand years.

You'll walk unhurried through the old centre, taking in its landmarks
before arriving at the cathedral: a Gothic masterpiece, and the site of
those coronations. Your guide brings its history to life, from the
stonework to the stained glass.

Then your private driver joins you, and together with your guide you head
to the first champagne house. There you'll descend into the cellars — cut
deep into the chalk — and learn how champagne is truly made, from the
harvest to the second fermentation that gives it its bubbles. Three
glasses follow: a proper tasting, taken slowly.

Lunch is next, in a restaurant in the countryside. A traditional French
meal, unrushed — the kind of pause the French build their days around.

The afternoon belongs to the vineyards. Your driver takes you to a second
champagne house, this one set among the vines. Here the tasting rises a
level: three more glasses, drawn from the finest harvests only — Grand Cru.
The vines start just behind the house, and you're free to walk out into
them whenever you like.

Then it's back to the station with your guide, and back to Paris — with
the taste of Champagne still on your tongue.