What is champagne.direct?
champagne.direct is a free, independent concierge for planning a trip to Champagne. It helps you choose which cellars to visit, where to stay, where to eat and how to get around, using information checked against official sources and dated.
champagne.direct at a glance
An independent concierge, made in Reims
- For
- Travellers planning a stay in Champagne
- Price
- Free, no sign-up
- Area
- Reims, Montagne de Reims, Épernay, Marne Valley, Côte des Blancs and Côte des Bar
- Places
- 44 verified places: 10 Champagne houses, 10 growers, 9 hotels, 8 restaurants and 7 sights
- Guides
- 8 practical guides, sourced and dated
- Languages
- French and English
- Independence
- No place pays to be listed
- Publisher
- Clément Perrin (AbsoVision), Reims
What you can do here
Four tools, one base of checked information.
Ask a question
Say what you are looking for in one sentence, as you would to a friend who knows the region. The concierge answers from our place profiles and guides, and tells you when it does not know.
Example: 2 days, no carBuild an itinerary
Pick how long (1 to 3 days), where you start (Paris, Reims or Épernay), train or car: the itinerary fills in hour by hour, with the visits you need to book.
Example: 2 days from Paris by trainBrowse the places
44 verified places. Each profile shows when we checked it and, where they exist, the official website, opening times, prices and the link to book.
See the 10 growersRead the guides
8 short guides to choose between Reims and Épernay, read a label or get around without a car. Each one lists its sources.
All guides
Why you can trust it
Official sources, dated
Every place profile links to the venue’s official site when it has one, and shows when we checked its opening times and prices. Every guide lists its sources: UNESCO, SNCF, official texts.
Nothing for sale
No place has paid to appear in our profiles, guides or itineraries. If paid promotion ever exists, it will carry a “Sponsored” label.
How we make money, in writing
Today the site earns nothing: every link goes to the venue’s own site, with no commission. The Transparency page has the details.
Reviewed every season
Opening times and prices change. We plan a review every season and fix any error as soon as someone reports it.
Who is it for?
A first visit
How many days, where to stay, which cellars: start with these two guides.
No car
Reims and Épernay are a train ride from Paris. You can explore Reims and the Avenue de Champagne in Épernay on foot.
Understanding Champagne
Big house or grower, grand crus, dosage: what you will see on the label and in the cellar.
Do you welcome visitors?
A place appears on champagne.direct if it welcomes visitors, has an active official website and information we can check. It is free. To correct your listing or see the offers for businesses, use the dedicated page.
See offers for businesses
Questions about champagne.direct
What is champagne.direct?
A free, independent concierge for planning a trip to Champagne. The site brings together 44 verified places (10 Champagne houses, 10 growers, 9 hotels, 8 restaurants and 7 sights), 8 practical guides, a concierge that answers your questions and a tool that builds your itinerary hour by hour, in French and English.
Who is behind champagne.direct?
Clément Perrin, a sole trader based in Reims (trading name: AbsoVision), publishes the site and is its publishing director. His contact details are in the legal notice.
How does champagne.direct make money?
For now it earns nothing: the service is free and every link goes to the venue’s own site, with no commission. Over time, offers for businesses will fund the site, and any paid promotion will carry a “Sponsored” label.
How does the concierge work?
You type your question in one sentence. The concierge applies simple rules to our place profiles and guides, right in your browser: it is not artificial intelligence. It makes nothing up, says when it does not know, and your messages never leave your device.
Can a place pay to be listed?
No. A place is listed if it welcomes visitors, has an active official website and information we can check. No paid promotion exists today. If it ever does, it will carry a “Sponsored” label and will not change the information shown.
Is champagne.direct an official site?
No. It is an independent service, with no link to the Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne, the Champagne houses or the tourist offices. For a venue’s official information, every profile links to its own website.
Our editorial method
How we verify
- Every place profile links to the official website when there is one, and shows the date we checked opening times, prices and closures.
- Every guide shows its update date and lists its sources at the bottom of the page: UNESCO, SNCF, official texts, published studies.
- We do not publish reviews yet. When we do, we will say whether and how they are verified.
Who publishes it
champagne.direct is an independent project, made in Reims. Information for visiting Champagne is scattered across house websites, tourist offices and train timetables: we bring it together in one place, dated. The publisher is named in the legal notice.
How we use AI
The concierge follows simple rules and runs in your browser: it is not AI. We used AI tools to help structure drafts, which we review and rewrite.
Report an error
An opening time changed, a price is wrong? Write to us: . We fix it and date the update.