Plan Your Visit to Veuve Clicquot

Veuve Clicquot sells its own cellar tours, by the hour, at one visit centre on the edge of Reims. You can book one yourself and arrive by train, or let a tour's fare carry the ticket, the drive and a second producer. If you are pricing Veuve Clicquot tickets, start with the house's own list, then set a tour's fare beside it.

The house's own cellar tours

Every visit is a guided cellar tour with a tasting, led by a house guide down in the chalk. The shortest is an hour with the Brut Yellow Label at EUR 36. The longest is four hours built around La Grande Dame, the prestige cuvée, at EUR 260. You book a time slot on the house's own website, and the longer visits, from 90 minutes up, can be booked for your party alone. Short answers on booking are in the FAQs.

The prices are the house's own, in euros, per person. They are not converted, because the house does not publish them in any other currency. What each tour shows underground is set out on the cellars page.

When the house is open in 2026

The cellars keep a seasonal calendar, and it changes more than you might expect. They were closed from 28 December 2025 and reopened on 7 April. In summer they open every day; in spring and autumn they close on Mondays, and from 4 November they close on Mondays and Tuesdays. Hours are 9:30 am to 5:30 pm on every open day.

The house has published nothing after 3 January 2027. If you plan a trip for early next year, check its calendar before you book a train, because last winter it stayed shut for over three months. How the weather and the seasons change a visit is set out on the Reims weather page.

Where the visit centre is

The Visit Center Saint-Pétersbourg stands at 1 rue Albert Thomas, 51100 Reims. It shares its name with the city Madame Clicquot shipped 10,550 bottles of her 1811 vintage to in 1814. By the house's own figures it is a 30-minute walk from the city centre, 15 minutes by car from Reims Centre station and 10 minutes by car from Champagne-Ardenne TGV station. A Citybus stop named Veuve Clicquot serves it.

If you drive, there are 20 car spaces, 5 coach spaces and a space for bicycles. Taxis can drop you in front of reception. The trains from Paris, the two Reims stations and the walk are set out step by step on how to get to the house.

Booking the house yourself, or a tour

For one visit, book the house direct: a TGV to Reims and the EUR 36 visit cost far less than any day tour. A tour earns its fare when you want a family grower or a second house the same day, lunch arranged, the vineyards between them, or a driver so nobody in your party drives after tasting. The table sets the ways to go side by side.

The tour fares are the operators' own, in US dollars as each listing shows them, with the house ticket already inside on every fare that names the house. A few Champagne days only promise a famous house such as Veuve Clicquot, by availability, and one of them leaves the house's fees out of the fare. Every card says which kind you are looking at, and what travellers made of each is in the reviews.

Where the tours meet in Reims

Reims has two tourist offices, and it matters which one you walk to. The main office stands on the cathedral square at 6 rue Rockefeller. The second is an information point on the forecourt of Reims Centre station, Cour de la Gare, open six days a week. The shared days meet in front of that one, at 9:20 am, so you step off the train and wait there.

France Intense runs its grower day from there on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and À La Française's day can start in Épernay instead, at 8:30 am at the tourist office on the Avenue de Champagne. The private days from Reims collect you at the station or your hotel. From Paris, most days collect you at your hotel; one puts you on the TGV with the tickets in the fare.

What to wear at 10 to 12 °C

The wines mature in chalk tunnels at a constant 10 to 12 °C, away from light and vibration, by the house's own figure. So bring a warm layer even in August, and wear shoes with grip for the stairs down into the cellars. The crayères are old chalk quarries, and the house has used them since 1909.

Children, wheelchairs, strollers and dogs

The house publishes no minimum age for its cellar tours. Each tour operator sets its own, so check the one on the tour you want before you book a family day.

• Tastings from 18: most operators pour for adults only.
• Minors in the cellars: Clewel's private days let under-18s join the cellar tour without tasting.
• Not under 4: À La Française's shared day; not under 10: its private day from Reims.
• Adults only: LinkParis's day by TGV sets its minimum age at 18.

The house says its visit, boutique and café are accessible to people with reduced mobility, if you mention it when you book. There is no storage for strollers or wheelchairs, but on request at reception you can take them down into the cellars. No animals are allowed anywhere in the visit centre, because of its food-safety certification.

Eating at the house

Café Clicquot, the first permanent one anywhere, has served at the visit centre since March 2023. It opens from 11 am to 5 pm, takes no reservations and follows the cellars' calendar. If your tour leaves lunch to you, it is the nearest table to the cellars.

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