Champagne Winemaker Trip with Martin Vander Weyer and Jonathan Ray, 6-10 April 2025

After the thundering success of our Spectator Wine Club tours to Bordeaux, Champagne and Hungary last year, we’re delighted to announce the schedule for 2025 and encourage you to join us.

Led by drinks editor Jonathan Ray, you will visit tip-top wineries – several of which don’t normally welcome visitors – and drink wines not normally on offer. You will mingle with fellow Spectator readers and, we promise, will not go thirsty. Think of our tours as roving and very genial, modestly-sized drinks parties.

All our trips are overseen by our good friends at Kirker Holidays, the multi-award-winning luxury travel specialists. Do join us!

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Champagne, 6-10 April 2025

Having arrived in Lille via Eurostar and transferred by minibus, we will be based in the perfectly located Hotel de la Paix in Reims, where we will enjoy a walking tour of the city and a visit to the Cathedral. To get as wide a view on Champagne as possible, we will visit large and small houses, well-established ones and new ones, in the shape of Bollinger, Brimoncourt, Henri Chauvet, Taittinger, Veuve Clicquot and VirginieT. We will finish our tour with a shirt-popping dinner in the company of our old friends Pol Roger.

 As in previous years, business editor Martin Vander Weyer will join us, doubling the fun.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED

Return Eurostar in Standard Premier Class

Transfers and entrance fees throughout

Four nights’ accommodation with breakfast

Three dinners and three lunches with wine

Four wine-tastings at Champagne producers

The services of Spectator writers Martin Vander Weyer and Jonathan Ray, as well as a Kirker tour escort

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For information speak to an expert at Kirker Travel on 0207 593 2284

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