Champagne trends go further. For even more bubbly discoveries, champagne experts have new concepts to offer.

For example, Vedettes de Paris in collaboration with wine tasting specialist Ô Chateau Wine Tasting, offers a champagne cruise on the Seine. Passengers get to taste three different champagnes in the salon of the glasswindowed boat and benefit from the comments of an experienced sommelier. A unique and glamorous hour, in French or English.

There are also champagne tasting workshops at prestigious Parisian wine merchants. In the Espace Nicolas Feuillatte, near to the Champs-Élysées,  n a setting by designer Christian Ghion, the sommelier welcomes small groups for workshops focusing on vintages of the brand. Participants learn about the differences between wines, grape varieties and the bottling of wine as they taste three or four different champagnes. At the shop Arlaux, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the Champagne region is explored, with the sale of local products; but it is also a space where tasting workshops take place based on the brand’s sparkling wines. Groups of from 5 to 10 people taste three different wines as they listen to the enlightened comments in French, English, Japanese, and soon in Russian. For the festive season, the famous Caves Taillevent helps you choose your champagne for Christmas or New Year’s Eve in the company of a sommelier and with the tasting of sparkling wines from different wine and champagne houses of Reims.

Of course, champagne buffs will find everything they want at the capital’s reputed wine merchants with sommeliers to give them precious advice. Nicolas with its many outlets in the city is an ideal place to shop and sells boxed champagne especially for the end of year festivities. At the fine food and wine store Fauchon, in place de la Madeleine, you can purchase Fauchon’s own champagne or other brands. Tasting workshops can be organized at the Comptoir, on the lower ground floor of the store.

Finally, for those who want to find out more, the Meeting the French team offers a day out in the Champagne region, 1hr30 from Paris. The journey takes place in a minibus with breakfast included. The group discover the beauty of the hillsides, meet a champagne producer, visit the cathedral of Reims and a large champagne house, and in addition to lunch there is a tasting session of three wines.

ARLAUX
29 rue Censier, Paris 5th
Tel +33 (0) 1 47 07 43 08
www.arlaux.fr
CAVES TAILLEVENT
199 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, Paris 8th
Tel +33 (0) 1 45 61 14 09
www.taillevent.com
ESPACE NICOLAS FEUILLATTE
254 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, Paris 8th
Tel +33 (0) 1 42 27 61 19
www.feuillatte.com
FAUCHON
30 place de la Madeleine, Paris 8th
Tel +33 (0) 1 70 39 38 00
www.fauchon.com
NICOLAS LA MADELEINE
31 place de la Madeleine, Paris 8th
Tel +33 (0) 1 42 68 00 16
www.nicolasmadeleine.fr
More than 100 other addresses on www.nicolas.com
MEETING THE FRENCH
Tel +33 (0) 1 42 51 19 80
www.meetingthefrench.com
VEDETTES DE PARIS
Port de Suffren, Paris 7th
Tel +33 (0) 1 44 18 19 50
www.vedettesdeparis.fr

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