Maison Boizel offers wine-tasting tours in Champagne

In Champagne, the last harvests have been turned into a medium for lasting memories. While working on its next great vintage, the hundred-year-old company, which has been cultivating excellence for five generations, has created Atelier 1834, a strategy aimed at showcasing its Champagne expertise by offering custom wine-tasting experiences.

Wine tourism enthusiasts on five continents

Located in the middle of Avenue de Champagne d'Epernay, which is also known as « Billionaire Avenue », Boizel is hosting guided tours of its wine cellars and storeroom and offering wine tastings. The company is eager to share its secrets with visitors, who are encouraged to don their sweaters before touring the labyrinth of the wine cellars located 11 metres below ground.

Each homemade oak barrel, which holds still wine destined to become sparkling Champagne, contains 40 hectolitres. © DR

At the heart of the wine cellar, your guide will explain why the wine maker turns the bottles a quarter turn every day. © DR

A treasure trove of bottles

During your tour, you’ll learn how Champagne is made as you stroll through the « Vintage Cellar », where you’ll find bottles from the best years from 1950 to now. In this historic site, the « family’s liquid archives », you’ll get to see blue-glass bottles from 1945 and bottles from the year the company was founded in 1834. At Boizel, tradition has been at work for 184 years.

In the modern but warm Joyau room, you can enjoy two to four fine vintages per session. © DR