Paris food and wine day trips leave the city early and give you the whole day: ten to thirteen hours door to door, two producers, six to eight tastings, and a cathedral or a château to break the driving. Three go to Champagne and one goes to the Loire.
Not Champagne but the Loire, and the only fare here that includes admission: Chambord and Chenonceau, audio guide in each, plus a cellar tasting. Hotel pickup, roughly two and a half hours' drive. Lunch only if you book the grade that carries it.
From $329 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
The most-reviewed day out of Paris. Six tastings across a grande marque house and a family grower, with Reims cathedral and Dom Perignon's abbey in between. Minivan of eight, minimum age seven, runs in all weather. Lunch is yours to buy in Epernay.
From $271 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Eight-plus cuvees and a lunch poured with three of them, collected from your own accommodation. One famous house and two family growers over eleven hours, in a van of eight with an English-speaking wine guide. A croissant and water are handed over at the start.
From $345 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Up to seven glasses, lunch, and a cellar at one of the great houses — Moet, Mercier, Veuve Clicquot or Taittinger, on availability. Ten to twelve hours with hotel pickup, the Avenue de Champagne at Epernay, and a stop at the Royal Champagne. Eighteen and over.
From $412 per person
Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.
Every one of these refunds in full up to 24 hours ahead, so an early booking costs you nothing but a decision.
Check AvailabilityA minivan, an early start and a whole day out of the city. Ninety minutes to three hours of motorway each way, two producers, six to eight tastings, and usually a cathedral or a château to break the driving.
Three of these go to Champagne and one goes to the Loire. What they share is scale: this is not an afternoon you fit around something else, it is the day.
A grande marque house and a family grower in the same day is the comparison that teaches you something, and it does not exist in a Paris wine bar.
Which matters more than it sounds when the day involves six to eight glasses of champagne.
Reims cathedral, where the kings of France were crowned; the abbey at Hautvillers, where Dom Pérignon is buried; the Avenue de Champagne at Epernay; two Loire châteaux with admission included.
A $272 day across eleven hours works out below a $119 walk across three. The day out is the long option rather than the expensive one.
The real fork, and the one worth thinking about before you book anything.
| A wine day trip | A Paris food walk | |
|---|---|---|
| Hours | 10–13 door to door | 2–3½ |
| Fare | $272–$413 | $80–$187 |
| What you taste | Six to eight champagnes, plus lunch on two | Six to fifteen things, mostly food |
| Starts | Your hotel, or a café at breakfast | A metro exit in the afternoon |
| What is left of the day | Nothing | The evening |
| Best for | A second visit, or a wine drinker | A first trip, and orientation |
If you have three days in Paris, take the walk. If you have a week, take both, on different days, with the walk first.
You get: return transport by air-conditioned minivan, a driver-guide for the whole day, cellar visits at two producers, and six to eight tastings. Two of them include lunch and one includes château admission.
You do not get: lunch on the six-tasting day or, unless you book the right option, on the Loire day. Gratuities and souvenirs are yours everywhere.
Fares run from $272 to $413. Book further ahead than you would for a walk: these run in minivans of eight and fill earlier. Choose a day with nothing else on it, and do not book one for the morning after an evening walk that fed you a full meal.
Take a layer whatever the forecast says, and expect to buy lunch yourself on the six-tasting day.
If you have one free afternoon rather than one free day. Any of the Le Marais food tours fits an afternoon.
If you do not drink. One reviewer who does not rated the countryside and the cathedral at five stars, but you would be paying mostly for the drive.
If you are travelling with a young child. Two of these are eighteen and over, and eleven hours in a minivan is a long day.
If bread and cheese are what you came for. Take a walk. The dish list is the tiebreaker.
| Tour | From | Runs | Lunch | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champagne Day Trip with 6 Tastings, Reims and Winery from Paris | From $271 | 11 hours | Buy your own | Anyone who would rather spend a whole day out than an afternoon in the city | Book |
| Loire Valley Wine & Castle Tour from Paris With Tasting & Pickup | From $329 | 10 hours to 13 hours | Only on one option | Travellers who want two chateaux and a cellar rather than a second city day | Book |
| Champagne Day Trip from Paris with 8 Tastings & Lunch | From $345 | 11 hours | Included | Champagne drinkers who want lunch poured against three of the cuvees | Book |
| Small-Group Champagne Lunch & Tasting from Paris with Pickup | From $412 | 10 hours to 12 hours | Included | Anyone who wants a famous house cellar and a hotel door pickup | Book |
The fares here are set by the operators and move with the season. Availability is the quickest way to see what a date actually costs.
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