Champagne Houses in Epernay: Visits, Prices and Cellars

You can walk to the big houses in Epernay. Moët & Chandon and Mercier stand on the same avenue, 500 m from the tourist office, and each sells its own cellar tour. You do not need a tour for them. You need one for the family growers in the villages, so compare the best champagne tours in epernay that pair the two.

The Epernay houses at a glance

These are the houses you can visit on foot or by a short drive. Prices are each house's own, in euros, for one adult on the cheapest guided visit. You book each one with the house, for a set time slot.

The houses keep their cellars cold, at 10 to 12 °C in every season. So take a warm layer down with you, even in July.

Moët & Chandon: the tours from EUR 48 to EUR 460

Moët & Chandon sits at 18 avenue de Champagne, above 28 km of cellars. Its guided tours run in English or French, from 9:30 to 17:00 every day, and its shop stays open until 18:00. What you pay depends on what is poured:

The shortest tour takes you through the cellars, then pours Moët Impérial and Rosé Impérial. Want a vintage in the glass? Then pick the EUR 65 or the EUR 85 visit.

The house puts its front door a five-minute walk from Epernay station. Paris Gare de l'Est is 80 minutes away by direct train, so you can do the visit as a day from Paris without a car.

Mercier and the driverless cellar train

Mercier is at the far end of the avenue, at number 68. Its 18 km of cellars lie 30 m down, and you ride through them on a driverless train. The train is in every tour, so you choose by the glasses:

• Adults: EUR 25 for 45 minutes and one glass, then EUR 30, EUR 35 and EUR 45.
• Ages 10 to 17: EUR 12. Younger children go free.
• A guide-interpreter: EUR 10 more. Audio guides come in 11 languages.
• Wheelchairs: a lift and a special entrance.

de Castellane, Boizel, Esterlin, de Venoge and Perrier-Jouët on the avenue

Five more houses line the same 1.5 km. The tourist office lists each one and what you see there. Only de Castellane prints its prices where we could read them.

Nicolas Feuillatte in Chouilly

Nicolas Feuillatte is out of town, in Chouilly on the Côte des Blancs. Its cellar tours cost EUR 20 with one glass, EUR 25 with two and EUR 30 with three, for about 75 minutes. It opens every day, 9:30 to 12:30 and 14:00 to 17:30, and you must book. The house runs shuttle packages from Epernay station.

House or grower: what changes in the glass

A house and a grower make the same wine by the same rules. What changes is where the grapes come from and who pours for you.

Champagne counts 16,460 growers, 410 houses and 120 cooperatives. In 2025 the houses shipped 191.9 million of the 266.1 million bottles sold. The growers and cooperatives shipped 74.2 million. So most bottles you know carry a house's name.

• NM, négociant-manipulant: a house, which buys grapes from growers as well as growing its own.
• RM, récoltant-manipulant: a grower who makes champagne from their own grapes, often in one or two villages.
• RC, récoltant-coopérateur: a grower who sells wine made by their cooperative.

At a house, a guide leads a group through the cellars and pours at the end. On a grower tour, you taste in a family's own cellar, in their village. The catch is getting there. The growers sit in Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Cramant and Oger, and no bus reaches their cellars.

Which tours take you inside a house

A tour's fare already covers its tastings, so you never buy a house ticket yourself. What differs is who pours:

• Three houses, on foot: the Moët & Chandon day, with its cellar tour, lunch, then de Castellane and Mercier, at $632 per person. It walks between the houses with their own guides and has no guide of its own. It is also non-refundable.
• One family house: Vollereaux's cellar hour in Pierry, at $19, three glasses after 40 minutes in the cellar. You make your own way to Pierry.
• A house and growers: every day from Paris, at $262 to $400. One names Nicolas Feuillatte. The others promise a major house without fixing which, and one says Moët & Chandon “or similar, subject to availability”. So ask before you book if one house is the reason you are going.
• Growers only: the afternoon from the tourist office at $257, and the private half days at $298 to $333 per person, two minimum.

Weighing a house against a grower? The guide a grower, a house or a vineyard ride sets them side by side. The tour fares in full are on Epernay champagne tour prices.

Champagne house questions

Where these facts come from

Prices, lengths and calendars come from each house's own visit page, read for 2026. The avenue's houses are listed by the Epernay tourist office, and the grower and house figures are the Comité Champagne's, on champagne.fr.

• Moët & Chandon: Visit us
• Mercier: Visit us
• Champagne de Castellane: Visits
• Nicolas Feuillatte: Cellar tours
• Epernay Tourisme: the Avenue de Champagne
• Champagne.fr: Champagne at a glance
• Champagne.fr: Frequently asked questions
• UNESCO: Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

Days with a big house's cellars on the itinerary

Day tour Tasting at Moët & Chandon and 2 Big Houses in Epernay

Seven hours on foot along the avenue: three big houses with their own guides, seven glasses and a three-course lunch. Non-refundable once booked.

From $632 per person

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From Paris: Small-Group Champagne Day Trip with Six Tastings

Eleven hours from a Paris café at 7:00 am: the cathedral in Reims, a family winery and a big house at Chouilly, six glasses. Lunch is yours.

From $263 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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