Affiliate Disclosure

Plainly, and before anything else: Epernay Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold by Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator's price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator. We do not run any of these tours, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with any champagne house or grower, with the Epernay tourist office, the museum at Château Perrier or the Comité Champagne, or with any of the places these tours stop at.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. A badge on a card is the platform's own, and we keep it only where the tour's figures support it: a Top rated badge stays only on a tour rated 4.9 or higher, so the platform's badge on tours rated 4.7 and 4.8 is not shown. Some operators sell several different days, and each appears on its own because each is separately bookable and priced.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different ways to spend the day — an afternoon with family growers and lunch from the tourist office, a full day from Paris that pours at a house and at growers, and two hours in a vintage van in the vines — each for a different kind of traveller.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were taken from their own listings on 18 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Every tour fare is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate. Most fares are per person; the private half days need two people; the jeep ride and the open-top bus are one fare for the vehicle.

The house prices we print are in euros, as each house publishes them on its own visit page. Facts about the appellation come from the Comité Champagne (champagne.fr), the World Heritage listing from UNESCO, the harvest dates from the Comité's commune sheet, the museum's hours and fares from its own site, the climate figures from Météo-France, and the tourist office's hours from the office itself. Where a detail comes from an operator's listing, such as a meeting point, a group size or a stop, it belongs to that tour.

What we deliberately do not publish

• A house's price we have not read on its own page. Where a house on the avenue shows no price here, check its booking page.
• Train times and fares. They change with the timetable; check SNCF for your date. The journey times we print are the tourist office's and the houses' own.
• Opening hours for the church at Hautvillers. The village's own office says it is open all year and gives no hours.
• Sunshine hours. The Météo-France station whose normals we use, Mailly-CIVC on the Montagne de Reims, records temperature and rain but not sunshine.
• Listing claims the official sources contradict or cannot confirm. Some listings call Dom Pérignon the inventor of champagne, which the Comité Champagne says nobody was; one bills a distillery as the oldest in Champagne; one gives a house's address as a different street number from the house's own. None is repeated.