Ruinart Wine Tasting and Private Tour in Champagne

About this tour

An eight-hour private tour from Paris combining Champagne's grand heritage with intimate winemaking. You'll start in Reims exploring Ruinart's Roman chalk mines and tasting their flagship cuvées, then walk through the city's Gothic cathedral and streets lined with major houses. After a leisurely lunch (your choice of local bistros), venture into vineyard-dotted villages to visit a small-scale grower producer, learning how they craft their bottles and sampling three glasses straight from the source.

Highlights

• Ruinart's subterranean Roman mines and flagship Champagne tastings
• Reims Cathedral and heritage wine district walking tour
• Boutique grower producer visit with production insight
• Three-glass tasting at independent winemaker's cellar
• Private transport with sommelier-trained guide throughout
• Lunch recommendations paired with local Champagnes

What to expect

Your guide, a trained sommelier with seven years' experience, meets you at Reims Centre station and handles all transport. Expect roughly three hours at Ruinart—their story unfolds inside genuine 2,000-year-old Roman galleries before you taste their range. The city tour covers cathedral architecture and the commercial heart where Mümm, Taittinger and others operate. You'll break for lunch at a restaurant they recommend, leaving you free to choose your pace and budget. The afternoon shift takes you through rolling vineyards to a small independent producer where you'll see their actual process and taste three glasses of their champagne in a far more casual setting than the grand houses.

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