Champagne Tours with Lunch in Epernay: Where the Meal Is in the Fare

If you want the meal handled, the tour you book decides what you eat and what is poured with it. Here is every champagne tour epernay with lunch: the plate, the glasses and the time you get back.

Which Epernay champagne tours include lunch?

Is the lunch worth what it adds to the fare? The per-hour maths sits in what each fare buys.

What is served on each lunch tour

1. The noon afternoon from the tourist office

You meet at 12:00 in front of the Epernay tourist office, and you are back there at 4:45 pm. On the way you stop in Hautvillers, visit a small family-run champagne house, and sit down at a champagne estate for lunch paired with a selection of its champagnes. You taste five glasses across the afternoon, in a group of eight at most. Other drinks and bottled water are on you. The noon small-group afternoon with lunch costs $257 and is rated 4.9 from 106 reviews, with free cancellation up to 24 hours. It spends its time in the villages around Epernay.

2. The e-bike day at Le Clos Corbier

You join at 9:35 am at the Epernay tourist office (9:00 am from Reims) and ride 30 km through the vines at a medium level. Nothing is poured while you ride: drinking is prohibited on a bike. The glasses come back at the domain, with a cellar visit: two champagnes, a red wine and a ratafia. Lunch is a traditional French spread of local specialities, such as cheese puffs, pâté-croûte, quiche and Reims pink biscuit. You are back in Epernay at 3:15 pm. The e-bike day with lunch costs $218, rated 4.8 from 226 reviews; in bad weather it switches to a people carrier.

3. The big-house day on foot

You check in at the Moët & Chandon front desk for its cellar tour and a tutored tasting. Then comes a three-course lunch with a champagne aperitif, and two more big houses in the afternoon, including Mercier's cellar train. Everything sits within 500 m, so you walk the Avenue de Champagne between stops, and each house's own guide leads its visit. You taste seven glasses over seven hours. The big-house day on foot costs $632, rated 5.0 from 15 reviews, and it is non-refundable once booked.

4. Three family estates from Reims

France Intense meets you at the Reims station tourist office at 9:20 am; your train from Paris is not included. You tour and taste at three family estates, nine glasses in all, stop at Dom Pérignon's tomb and drive the avenue. Lunch is an hour at a local restaurant in Epernay and covers a main course; anything extra is on your bill. The day with three family estates from Reims lasts eight hours, for $292, rated 4.8 from 239 reviews.

5. My Winedays' day from Paris

You are collected at your central Paris hotel and dropped at Place de l'Hôtel de Ville ten hours later. The day pairs a famous house with two small family vineyards, or a cooperative and a family vineyard, for at least eight tastings. Lunch takes two hours, at the table of a family-run winery or a traditional restaurant, with three champagnes poured alongside. My Winedays' day from Paris costs $372, rated 4.8 from 1,733 reviews.

6. Go Go Tours' cathedral day from Paris

Go Go Tours collects you at your Paris hotel for eleven hours. You visit a prestigious house (Moët & Chandon or similar, subject to availability) and a small family winery, then sit down for a three-course French lunch in Epernay, an hour and a half. Reims Cathedral closes the day. The cathedral day with a three-course lunch costs $400, rated 4.8 from 703 reviews; the listing sets a minimum age of 16. All the Paris days are compared on the champagne tours to Epernay from Paris page.

Which tours stop for lunch but leave the bill to you?

Read the excludes before you book:

• Blue Fox Travel's day from Paris: a one-hour lunch stop in Epernay, not included, for $263.
• Go Go Tours' small-group day from Paris: free time to choose your own restaurant, for $262.
• The Bubble tour: lunch excluded, $189 for three and a half hours.
• The Reims two-winery tour: lunch excluded, $149 for four and a half hours.
• The private half days, the vineyard rides and the Vollereaux cellar hour: no food listed. The vineyard tours from Epernay and the private champagne tours from Epernay are built around a glass, not a meal.

How to pair a morning tour with lunch on the avenue

The Bubble tour leaves the tourist office in the morning, and the vintage van, the jeep and the private half days take two to three and a half hours. You are free by lunchtime.

For the hour-by-hour version of that plan, see one day in Epernay, hour by hour.

Sundays, diets and the ride

• Sundays: the noon afternoon's Epernay pickup does not run on Sundays. Its Reims pickup does, at 11:15 am at Reims station, back at 5:30 pm.
• Diets and allergies: À La Française can adapt both its lunches, but you must say so when you book.
• The ride: the e-bike day pours nothing on the road and brings no bottled water. Bring your own bottle; refills are on site. You must be confident on a bike, or you may be turned away at the start.

Age rules and booking questions for every tour are in the Epernay FAQs.

Which lunch tour suits you

• You arrive by train on a weekday morning: the noon afternoon. The station is a short walk from the start; the tourist office and the train has the route.
• You like to move: the e-bike day, 30 km at a medium level.
• You want the famous names: the big-house day, but it is non-refundable.
• You are based in Reims: France Intense, with a main course included.
• You want a door-to-door day with no train: My Winedays or Go Go Tours' cathedral day.

Still torn between the formats? A grower, a big house or a ride among the vines sets them side by side.

Champagne tours with lunch: questions

Tours with lunch in the fare

From Epernay: Champagne Small-Group tour with tastings & Lunch

Noon to about 5:15 pm from the tourist office: a village above the Marne, lunch with champagne in Aÿ and a family producer's cellar. Five champagnes, eight people at most.

From $257 per person

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Champagne: E-Bike Champagne Day Tour with Tastings and Lunch

Five hours on an electric bike through the vines above Aÿ, with lunch, two champagnes, a red wine and a ratafia at a family domain. From 9:35 am in town.

From $218 per person

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From Reims: Champagne Day Trip to 3 Family Domains & Lunch

A full day from the Reims station at 9:20 am: three family estates, nine glasses and lunch at a local restaurant, with a drive along the Epernay avenue.

From $292 per person

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Champagne Day Trip from Paris with 8 Tastings & Lunch

Ten hours from your central Paris hotel: a major house's cellar, a two-hour lunch with champagne, then a family estate or cooperative. At least eight tastings, eight people at most.

From $372 per person

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