Mumm Champagne Tour: Reims Cellars And Booking

G.H. Mumm is one of the big Reims houses, and the house is one of 410 champagne houses across the appellation. The house stands on Saint-Nicaise Hill, a slope honeycombed with chalk cellars that UNESCO added to the World Heritage List in 2015 as part of the Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars property, 1,101.72 hectares covering the historic vineyards of Hautvillers, Aÿ and Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims, and the Avenue de Champagne in Epernay. That heritage status is part of why a visit here feels different from a tasting bar in Paris: the cellars are the reason the hill is on the list. If that tasting-bar comparison tempts you to see the real cellars for yourself, our guide to fitting Reims into a day trip from Paris explains how the train and the cellar visits work together.

The catch for a planner is simple. The house does not publish visit prices or opening hours, and among day tours from Paris or Reims, only one listing names La Maison Mumm as a stop. One Paris listing names Mumm as a possible house; other Paris tours do not mention Mumm at all. This guide sorts confirmed details from open questions, lists the price of every option, and explains how a Mumm day fits into a wider champagne trip, whether you start in Paris or sleep in Reims. For a useful point of comparison, the Pommery cellars visit guide lays out which day trips from Paris or Reims actually include a Pommery stop and what each option costs.

Which Champagne Tours Actually Visit The Mumm Cellars In Reims?

One day tour in this whole category lists La Maison Mumm as a named stop: a full-day Reims or Epernay champagne trip departing Reims, from $285.08 per person, rated 4.9 across 223 reviews, running about 7.8 hours with hotel pickup, lunch and 7 tastings included. Paris departures mostly treat Mumm as one possible house among several, so anyone fixed on Mumm specifically should start from this Reims-based day.

That listing pairs La Maison Mumm with Hautvillers, the village where the monk Pierre Pérignon worked at the abbey, and with a family grower visit and lunch. It departs from Reims, not Paris, which matters for price comparisons: Reims-based day trips run from $134.00 to $286.00 per person and exclude the train from Paris, while small-group and shared days from Paris run $202.00 to $432.18 per person. Departure city is the single biggest driver of the fare.

From Paris, the most reviewed day is the "Champagne Day Trip from Paris with 8 Tastings & Lunch", with 1,780 reviews, from $364.00 per person, rated 4.81 across 1,780 reviews, the largest review pool in the category. Its listing names Mumm, Veuve Clicquot, Moët & Chandon, Mercier, Pommery, Lanson or Nicolas Feuillatte as the major house visited, varying by date, alongside a family-owned estate or cooperative. That is a strong day, but the house is not promised.

The table below shows what each of these three days actually includes, using only what each listing states.

A reader weighing these three should think first about where the day starts. The two Reims departures assume you are already in, or have trained to, the champagne capital. The Paris departure trades a higher fare for a door-to-door day with hotel pickup listed and lunch included.

How Much Does A Mumm Champagne Tour Cost?

A Mumm champagne tour costs from $285.08 per person on the Reims day that names Mumm as a stop, with lunch and 7 tastings included. Paris departures run $202.00 to $432.18 per person, but the cheapest option does not name Mumm, so booking from Paris makes the house a possibility rather than a promise.

Price in this category tracks three things: departure city, group format, and whether lunch is included. The cheapest day trip from Paris on the books is $202.00 per person, a shared 11-hour day to Hautvillers, Reims, the Verzenay lighthouse and the cathedral with 4 tastings, rated 4.25 across 21 reviews. It never calls at Mumm. The cheapest Paris small group rated 4.5 or better with at least 50 reviews is $257.00 per person, the "Champagne Tour from Paris: Small Group, Tastings & Pickup", rated 4.76 across 64 reviews, which visits Reims Cathedral and the Avenue de Champagne without naming any major house.

Private days are a different scale again. Private per-person from-prices from Paris run $555.00 to $980.68, and each of those figures is the rate for the smallest booking, not a total and not a group price. Luxury and lunch days run $826.74 to $1,197.35 per person. None of the private listings name Mumm as a stop, so paying more does not buy certainty on this house.

For a Mumm-focused plan, the budget picture looks like this.

That third row is the budget play. A half-day from Reims visiting two small family producers runs from $134.00 per person with 6 tastings, and the TGV from Paris Est covers the distance in about 45 minutes. You trade the big-house cellar walk for grower intimacy, and you pay roughly half the Paris day-trip fare before train tickets.

What Do You See On A Champagne Cellar Tour Near Reims?

Champagne cellars around Reims are cut into chalk: Taittinger's lie eighteen metres underground in galleries and Gallo-Roman chalk quarries listed as UNESCO World Heritage, Pommery holds a steady 10 C all year, and Moët's network under Epernay runs 28 km. The houses keep these crayères cool, so warm clothing is sensible advice for any cellar visit, and the walking is on chalk floors, not polished concrete.

Mumm runs guided visits of its cellars in Reims. For tour options, opening hours and current prices, check the house's own booking page before you go. What can be said is structural: Saint-Nicaise Hill, where Mumm stands alongside other houses, is one of the three components of the UNESCO inscription, recognized for exactly this architecture of quarries turned into ageing cellars. The hill's heritage is the cellars, whoever owns the door.

What the walk-in visit at a big house generally involves, based on what the houses themselves publish, is a guided descent, a route through ageing galleries, and a tasting of at least one cuvée at the end. Moët & Chandon in Epernay prices its entry visit at 48 EUR per person for about an hour and a half, with a Signature tier at 65 EUR, and its own page notes that places are limited and advance online booking is recommended. Veuve Clicquot in Reims prices its Brut Yellow Label cellar visit and tasting at 36 EUR. Those are the only big-house visit prices that can be stated, and they set the expectation that a direct house visit is a modest, ticketed experience rather than an all-day affair. Before you book one of those Veuve Clicquot time slots, a quick guide to saying the name correctly also explains how the Reims cellars fit into a day trip from Paris.

Guided days wrap that experience in logistics. The Mumm full-day listing from Reims stacks the house visit with a grower stop and lunch, which is the format that most first-time visitors enjoy: one famous name for the scale and history, one family estate for the conversation, and a proper meal between them. For a wider look at that format across producers, the small grower champagne tour guide breaks down what a grower visit adds that a big house cannot.

One practical note on timing: cellar visits often run by reservation, so book ahead, and the houses themselves advise booking ahead on their own pages rather than counting on a walk-up slot.

Can You Do A Mumm Champagne Tour As A Day Trip From Paris?

Yes, in one of two ways: take a Paris-departing day trip and accept that Mumm is only a possible house on most routes, or train from Paris Est to Reims in about 45 minutes and join the Reims-based full day that names Mumm as a stop. The train-plus-tour route lets you keep a Paris bed and join a Reims day that lists Mumm as a stop, and it usually costs less than the Paris-departing days.

The arithmetic favors the train. The Mumm day from Reims is from $285.08 per person; a Paris departure with lunch and 8 tastings is from $364.00 per person and does not promise the house. Add a TGV ticket to the first figure, which runs from Paris Est in about 45 minutes according to the Pommery visitor page, and compare fares and times on SNCF Connect before booking, since this page quotes no train prices. By car, the same house page puts Reims at an hour and a half from Paris.

Paris departures still make sense for travellers who want zero logistics. Hotel pickup is listed on most of them, and the day is a single decision rather than a train connection plus a meeting point. The budget end of that market is well served by the "Champagne Tour from Paris: Small Group, Tastings & Pickup", from $257.00 per person, rated 4.76 across 64 reviews, a 12-hour small-group day capped at 8 people covering Reims Cathedral and the Avenue de Champagne.

For a middle path, the "Champagne Day Trip with 6 Tastings, Reims and Winery from Paris", from $262.28 per person and rated 4.8 across 1,034 reviews, stops at Nicolas Feuillatte, the Hautvillers abbey site, Reims Cathedral and Epernay over 11 hours. Lunch is not listed on it, which is typical of the cheaper Paris days that skip the meal.

The full comparison of train versus tour, with the trade-offs spelled out, sits in the champagne by tour or train guide, and the mechanics of the rail leg alone are covered in how to travel from Paris to Reims by train.

How Does Mumm Compare With The Other Big Reims Houses?

Mumm, Pommery, Taittinger and Veuve Clicquot all sit on or beside Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims, sharing the same UNESCO-listed chalk, but only Veuve Clicquot publishes a quotable visit price here, 36 EUR for its Brut Yellow Label cellar tour and tasting, and only Pommery publishes a cellar temperature, 10 C all year. Choosing between them is less about quality than about which tour route includes which door, and which pairing of house plus grower fits your day.

The houses differ in what they can promise a visitor. Veuve Clicquot's own page lists its Reims cellars as closed for stretches and reopening on set dates through 2026 and into early 2027, so check the house's booking page for the day you want; its 36 EUR Brut Yellow Label visit is the anchor price for a direct Reims cellar visit. Pommery's visitor page confirms the 10 C cellars and nothing else quotable. Taittinger's experience page confirms the eighteen-metre depth and the UNESCO-listed quarries, with prices and durations on its booking page. For Mumm, hours and prices are simply not published in any form this page can use, so the only reliable way in is a tour that stops there or the house's own booking channel.

Tour-side, the comparison is about stops. The Pommery-inclusive option from Paris is the "Full Day All-inclusive Tour in Champagne from Paris in a Minivan", from $267.98 per person, rated 4.9 across 187 reviews, a 12-hour day with hotel pickup listed, lunch included and 4 tastings, visiting Verzenay, Reims Cathedral and Vranken Pommery.

The full spread of houses and what each one offers a visitor is mapped in the Reims champagne houses guide, with the Epernay side of the appellation covered separately.

When Is The Best Time Of Year For A Mumm Champagne Tour?

May through September offers the warmest, driest window in Reims, with July averaging daily highs of 24.7 C and only 8.1 days of rain of 1 mm or more, while harvest runs from mid-August to September and the 2026 pick was the earliest on record, starting 6 August. Cellars hold the same chill year round, Pommery's at a constant 10 C, so the season matters for the vineyards above ground, not the tunnels below.

The climate record for the Reims-Courcy station, 1981 to 2010 normals from Meteo-France, gives a clear shape to the year: winter daily highs sit below 7 C from December to February with roughly ten rainy days a month, spring climbs from 11.3 C in March to 18.8 C in May, and the June to August stretch combines highs above 21 C with the lowest rain counts of the year. October, at 15.6 C highs and 8.9 wet days, is the classic harvest-adjacent visit.

The 2026 season rewrote the calendar. The Comite Champagne's harvest review, published 9 September 2026, reports first picking from 6 August, the ban announced 12 August, widespread harvest from 17 August, roughly 14 days earlier than 2025, and describes the earliest harvest ever recorded in Champagne, with moderate yields and grapes in exceptional sanitary condition. A ministerial order published in late October 2026 even allowed some 2026 harvest champagnes to exceed the usual 13 percent alcohol limit, up to 15 percent, because of heatwave and drought conditions. None of that changes a cellar visit, but it colors an autumn walk through the vines.

Winter visits are underrated for exactly this reason: the cellars are the product, and they are identical in January. Reims Cathedral, inscribed by UNESCO in 1991 along with Saint-Remi Abbey and the Palace of Tau, anchors the city's old core and is free to enter, though its towers are visit-by-booking only, with guided tower tours running to 15 November 2026 and then paused until 15 February 2027, and no tower ticket price is quotable here. The seasonal question is unpacked fully in the best time to visit champagne guide.

How Do You Book A Mumm Champagne House Tour From Paris Or Reims?

Book the Reims-based full-day tour that lists La Maison Mumm if the house is your priority, since it offers free cancellation and a live listing showing current dates and availability. If Mumm is only a preference, choose a Paris day tour naming it as a possible stop and confirm the house with the operator once your date is fixed, or book directly through Mumm's own site.

The booking order matters less than the cancellation terms. Every tour named on this page lists free cancellation except one private listing where the terms sit on the booking page, so holding a date early costs nothing if plans shift. Free cancellation is standard across the category, but the window varies by product, and the exact cutoff is always on the live listing rather than in any article.

For the from-Paris reader, the practical sequence is: pick a Paris-departing day for convenience, or pick the train plus the Reims Mumm day for certainty on the house. The two Reims half-days make a good fallback if the full day is full: a morning tour from $134.00 per person with 6 tastings at two small family producers, or an afternoon version from $148.24 per person with 6 tastings at Hautvillers, both rated 4.79 or better across hundreds of reviews. Neither includes the big house, which is precisely why they cost less.

See every day trip and tasting side by side at Champagne Tours From Paris, because the three tours compared above are a starting shortlist rather than the whole market. The champagne tours compared guide does the same work across the whole category, and the cost breakdown lives in how much a champagne tour costs.

One last planning note: Hautvillers Abbey itself, the birthplace association every champagne itinerary leans on, is closed to visitors as private Moët property, so tours stop at the village and the abbey's exterior rather than going inside. The adjacent church keeps posted hours, and the village is walkable. It is a small expectation to reset before you stand in the square.

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