The coronation city of the French kings, built on chalk quarries that now hold millions of bottles.
Walk the chalk galleries under the city, then drive out to the vines and taste with the family that grew the grapes.
Who you really visitNamed house or unnamed family growers
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Tours from Reims
Choose your Reims champagne tour
In the centre, the most booked tour from Reims: an afternoon with two family growers and Hautvillers.
Either side, the same idea in the morning, and a full day with three estates and lunch. All three meet outside the central station.
Three family estates, nine glasses, Hautvillers and the Avenue de Champagne, with lunch at a champagne house. The whole region in one day from the station.
The station tours meet at the tourist office outside Reims Centre station, not at Champagne-Ardenne
TGV, 8 km out. Cellars stay around 10 °C all year, so bring a layer.
Before you book
The big names sell their own tickets. The tours go to the growers.
Here is what surprises most people. Search "champagne tours Reims" and you might expect a guide to walk you round
Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger and Ruinart. Almost none of the tours from Reims do that. The great houses on the
Saint-Nicaise hill run their own cellar visits, from €30 at Pommery and Mumm to €90 at Ruinart, and you book
them directly on their websites.
What the tours sell is the part you cannot do on foot: the family growers out in the villages of the Montagne
de Reims and the Marne valley, where no bus goes. Most listings do not name them in advance. That is normal, and often
the best hour of the trip: the person pouring grew the grapes. The one tour here that pairs a big house with a grower is
the Veuve Clicquot day, and even it keeps "a similar house" as a backup.
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Kilometres of chalk galleries under the Saint-Nicaise hill, where Ruinart,
Veuve Clicquot, Pommery, Taittinger and their neighbours age their wine. Part of the UNESCO listing since 2015.
Family growersOne big houseE-bikeCity tasting
Under Reims, the houses age their bottles in chalk quarries dug long before champagne existed.
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Which producer will I see?
Usually unnamed family growers. If one house matters, book its own visit.
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Do I need a car?
No. The tours meet outside Reims Centre station and drive you to the vines.
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How much will I drink?
Six glasses on a half day, nine to ten on a full day. Spitting is fine.
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Who should skip it?
Wheelchair users on most minivan tours, and under-12s on the e-bike day.
Your tour
How a Reims champagne tour runs
Half a day with two growers, or a full day with three and lunch. This is the usual shape of it.
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Meet at the station
Your guide waits outside the tourist office at Reims Centre station, then a minivan heads for the vines.
9:20am or 2pm
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A grower's cellar
The press house, the tanks and the chalk cellar, with the method explained by the people who use it.
About 90 minutes
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Hautvillers and the slopes
A walk through the village where Dom Pérignon is buried, with views over the UNESCO hillsides.
30 to 45 minutes
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Second grower, then Reims
Another family estate and three more glasses, then back to the station for your train.
Prices, getting to Reims, what to bring and how to book: one tab each.
Half-day grower tours from the station: from $135 to $146 per person.
Full days with lunch: $282 for three family estates, $371 with Veuve Clicquot.
E-bike day with lunch: $214. Land Rover ride in the vines: $110.
One-hour tasting in the centre: $51. Guided cathedral tour: $12.
House visits on your own: Mumm and Pommery from €30, Veuve Clicquot from €36, Ruinart €90.
From Paris: TGV from Gare de l'Est to Reims in 46 minutes, about seven direct trains a weekday, advance fares from €15.
Get off at Reims (the central station), not Champagne-Ardenne TGV, which is 8 km outside the city.
To the Saint-Nicaise hill: bus C to the "Pommery" stop, about 20 minutes from the station.
To Épernay: the local "Ligne des Bulles" train, about 34 minutes, roughly hourly.
Timetables change in mid-December; check SNCF Connect before you book a tour around a train.
A warm layer: the cellars sit around 10 °C, even in August.
Flat shoes. Cellar stairs are steep and chalk floors can be damp.
Lunch before an afternoon tour: the half-day tours do not include food.
A plan for bottles: a 75 cl bottle usually goes in checked luggage when you fly home.
Saturdays from May to October fill first; book a week or two ahead.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before on the grower tours here; check the window on the Veuve Clicquot day.
Shared tours need two people to run. If only you book, the operator offers another date or a refund.
Visiting a house on your own? Ruinart, Pommery, Mumm and Veuve Clicquot all take online bookings, and Ruinart has no walk-ins.
Tour length1 to 8 hoursFrom a city tasting to a full day in the vines.
Group size8 at mostMinivans keep every shared tour here small.
Tastings6 to 10 glassesAcross two or three producers on a tour.
LanguageEnglishEvery tour here runs in English; some add French.
AgesCheck each tourThe e-bike day starts at 12, the city tasting at 18.
Meeting pointThe stationReims Centre tourist office, on the station forecourt.
Where it happens
Reims, the hill and the vines beyond
One meeting point, three landscapes
Meeting point for most tours: the tourist office outside Reims Centre station, Cour de la Gare, 51100 Reims
From the station, the cathedral is a short walk south-east through the centre. Further out on the same side, the
Saint-Nicaise hill holds Pommery, Ruinart, Veuve Clicquot and Taittinger above their chalk pits. South of the city the
Montagne de Reims rises, a wooded plateau ringed with Grand Cru villages, and beyond it the Marne valley with Hautvillers,
Aÿ and Épernay, about 27 km away.
Between a morning with the growers and a cellar visit on the hill, give the cathedral 90 minutes with a guide. This is the church where French kings were crowned, with the smiling angel on its west front and Chagall windows in the apse.
Reims is the easiest place in Champagne to start: 46 minutes from Paris, cellars under your feet and the
vineyards fifteen minutes away. The listings all show the same flutes and vines. Here is how to tell them apart.
Houses on the hill, growers in the villages
Two different things are sold as a champagne tour in Reims. The first is a visit to a great house: Veuve Clicquot,
Taittinger, Pommery, Ruinart or Mumm, each with its own guides, its own cellars and its own booking page. You go on
your own, pay the house in euros and spend an hour or two underground. The second is a small-group tour out of the city
to the people who grow the grapes, with a minivan and a guide. That is what the afternoon tour,
the morning tour and the three domains day sell.
The best day in Reims does both. A grower tour in the morning, lunch in town, and a house on the Saint-Nicaise hill in
the afternoon. Our guide to the houses in Reims has the prices, hours and which
ones need booking weeks ahead.
A grower's press house: smaller than the great houses, and the owner is often the one pouring.
Why the growers are not named
Read the listings and you will see "two family-run wineries" with no names. Small growers take a few visitors on
the days they can, and the operator picks the ones free that day. One morning tour still has "Taittinger" in its web
address from an older version; its operator now describes two family estates and no big house. If a name matters to
you, book that house yourself. If you want to taste what most people never see on a shop shelf, the unnamed grower is
the point.
The small print: the tours start at Reims Centre station, the one in town. Arrive on a TGV that
stops at Champagne-Ardenne TGV and you are 8 km out with a tram ride still to do. Check which station your ticket says.
The Saint-Nicaise hill
The great cellars of Reims sit together in the south-east of the city, above chalk pits called crayères that were
quarried for centuries. Ruinart arrived on the hill first, in 1768; Veuve Clicquot, Pommery, Taittinger and
Charles Heidsieck are its neighbours. Under them run about 57 km of galleries, and since 2015 the hill has been part of
the UNESCO "Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars". Bus C from the station stops at "Pommery" in about 20 minutes.
Once you are up there, the houses are a few minutes' walk apart.
The crayères: old chalk pits turned into cellars, some of them more than 20 metres deep.
Seasons and closed doors
The growers work all year and so do the tours. The houses do not all keep the same calendar. Veuve Clicquot closes
for winter and opened again on 7 April in 2026; from 4 November 2026 to 3 January 2027 it opens Wednesday to Sunday.
Mumm cuts its days from November to April. Pommery stays open all year except 25 December and 1 to 2 January. In
August the growers are picking and some visits get shorter; in 2026 the harvest ran from 8 to 22 August.
How much champagne is in a tour
A half-day tour pours six glasses, three at each grower. The three domains day serves nine,
the Veuve Clicquot day around ten, with lunch in between. Nobody minds if you pour the rest of a glass
into the spittoon. Drink water in the van, and eat before an afternoon tour: the half days do not include food.
Three cuvées at each grower is the usual pour on a half-day tour.
Mumm, on rue du Champ de Mars, is the house closest to the centre. Pommery, Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger and Ruinart sit together on the Saint-Nicaise hill in the south-east of the city, a long walk from the station or bus C to the "Pommery" stop in about 20 minutes. Once you are on the hill, the houses are close to each other. See champagne houses in Reims.
Is the Veuve Clicquot tour worth it?
For the cellars and the story of the widow who ran the house from 1805, yes. Visits at 1 rue Albert Thomas start at €36 for the one-hour Brut Yellow Label tour and must be booked online. The house closes in winter and from 4 November 2026 to 3 January 2027 opens Wednesday to Sunday only. More in the Veuve Clicquot tour guide.
Is Épernay or Reims better?
Reims has the cathedral, the 46-minute train from Paris and the great houses on the Saint-Nicaise hill. Épernay has the Avenue de Champagne and the vineyards at the edge of town. Base yourself in Reims and the tours here take you to the villages and the Avenue anyway. See Reims or Épernay.
Which champagne house should I visit in Reims?
Pick by what you want. Ruinart for the oldest house on the hill and its cathedral-like chalk pits (€90, book weeks ahead). Pommery for the 19th-century estate and art in the cellars, open all year. Mumm for a short walk from the centre. Then add a family grower: the tours here are the easiest way to reach one.
Is Moët or Veuve Clicquot better?
Neither, objectively. Moët Impérial is lighter and fruitier; Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label leans on Pinot Noir and tastes fuller. Their cellars are in different towns: Veuve Clicquot in Reims, Moët & Chandon on the Avenue de Champagne in Épernay. Taste both, as our side-by-side suggests.
How many days should I spend in Reims?
One full day covers the cathedral and one cellar visit. Two days let you add a half-day tour to the growers, the Basilica of Saint-Remi and the Museum of the Surrender (the Palace of Tau is closed for works until 2027). With three, spend one in Épernay. Ideas in things to do in Reims.
Is it worth buying champagne in Reims?
From the small growers, yes: many sell bottles you will never find at home. The big houses charge their usual shop prices, and a bottle of Moët Impérial costs about €42 in a French supermarket. Flying home, a 75 cl bottle usually has to go in checked luggage.
How much does a Veuve Clicquot visit cost?
At the house in Reims, 2026 visits run from €36 (Brut Yellow Label, 1 hour) to €260 (La Grande Dame, 4 hours). A full day from Reims that includes the Veuve Clicquot cellars, a family grower and lunch starts at $371 per person on GetYourGuide.
Is Reims a walkable city?
The centre is: the station, the cathedral, the place Drouet d’Erlon and the Boulingrin market are all within walking distance, and Mumm says it is 20 minutes on foot from the station. The Saint-Nicaise hill with Pommery, Taittinger, Ruinart and Veuve Clicquot is further out, so take bus C or a taxi.
How do you pronounce Clicquot?
Say "klee-KOH", with the stress at the end and no "t". Veuve means widow and sounds roughly like "vuhv". The house is named after Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the widow Clicquot, who took over in 1805.
What is the best time for a champagne tour in Reims?
May to October, when the vines are green and every house is open. The 2026 harvest ran from 8 to 22 August, the earliest on record. Late November to late December brings the Christmas market. From January to March several houses cut their days or close.
Ready to book
Pick your day, raise a glass.
Small groups, a meeting point at Reims station, and free cancellation on the grower tours.
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