The day to book if you want a guide of your own and the house at your pace. Your guide meets you at Reims Centre station, or collects you nearby. You tour the cellars at Veuve Clicquot, walk the city and the cathedral, and taste at a small family producer in the vineyards. The vehicle and the visits are wheelchair accessible.
Two hours for the visit and tasting at the house, paid for in your fare.
A small family house at Rilly-la-Montagne, where the family pours its own wine.
An hour with your guide in the city, and an hour at the cathedral.
The vehicle and the visits are marked accessible, with strollers and infant seats.
Up to eight of you, and a guide who suggests extra stops and places to eat.
Travellers praise how much the guide knows about the city as well as the wine.
You get two hours for the house, its cellars and its tasting, and the ticket is in your fare. A house guide leads you down into the crayères, the chalk pits the house has used since 1909, and your own guide adds the context before and after. Travellers found the house tour more personal than they had expected. Recent groups toured it in the afternoon, after the producer, and took it slowly.
Weighing up the Veuve Clicquot guided tours on offer? This is the lowest private fare from Reims that names the house. The guide on this listing is a sommelier. The house tells you the story of Madame Clicquot, widowed in 1805, and your guide tells you the rest of the region's.
The second tasting is at a small producer at Rilly-la-Montagne, in the vineyards outside Reims. Here the family makes the wine and often pours it themselves. Recent guests went to Daniel Dumont, a family house, and found it as memorable as the big name. You spend about 1.5 hours there, and you can buy bottles at the source.
The day also gives you the city. You spend an hour at Reims Cathedral, free to enter and open daily from 8 am, and another hour walking Reims with your guide. Between the visits you drive a stretch of the signposted Champagne tourist route through the vines. Your guide can suggest extra stops on the way, and a place for lunch.
You want your own guide, the house and a small producer, and the freedom to linger. It suits couples, families with small children (one couple brought their one-year-old) and travellers who use a wheelchair, since the vehicle and the visits are marked accessible.
You want the lowest fare: the shared grower day from Reims station costs $375 with lunch in it. If you want lunch included on a private day, the private full day from Reims with lunch pours nine glasses but cannot be refunded. To be collected in Paris, the Grand Vintage day from Paris drives you to both houses. Every private option sits on Veuve Clicquot private tours.
Your guide waits outside the small Reims Centre station, on the Cour de la Gare, with your name on a phone screen. You can also be collected in Reims, in Épernay, or anywhere within about 30 minutes' drive of Reims. For a pickup up to an hour away, ask the guide before you book.
There is no pickup in Paris. The TGV reaches Reims in about 45 minutes, and the guide helps with trains and lunch before the day. Arrive at Reims Centre, not Champagne-Ardenne TGV outside the city.
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Private Veuve Clicquot and boutique producer day from Reims
The family-run Daniel Dumont first, welcoming and full of detail, then Veuve Clicquot in the afternoon: the brand's history, the site and the caves.
Caroline M. · Traveller · December 2024
★★★★★
Private Veuve Clicquot and boutique producer day from Reims
The guide was good with our one-year-old, who came along. The Veuve Clicquot tour was more personal than we expected.
Hannah C. · Family · Traveller · April 2024
★★★☆☆
Private Veuve Clicquot and boutique producer day from Reims
Overpriced in hindsight: the two house visits cost just over £200 for two of us booked direct, which left over £500 for the driving and a walk round the cathedral. A half-day group tour the next day cost a third as much.
R. W. · Couple · Traveller · June 2025
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