All informations about Wine tastings and Wine Tour in Lyon
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No, all our wine tours are private. This means that during transportation, you will be accompanied only by your guide and a driver.
Visits to the wineries will also be private, with an English-speaking greeter. If not, your guide will be an interpreter.
For our special offers, it's also possible to opt for lunch with a private chef / masterclass of the region's greatest wines in a villa, manor house or castle.
The vast majority of the tours, depending on availability, will be led gy Hugo Jeanguyot, founder of the small agency specializing in high-end discovery of the wine regions around Lyon.
A graduate of McGill and emlyon business school, he has won international blind wine-tasting competitions ( Ruinart, Bollinger ) and is a WSET3 graduate. A wine merchant specializing in prestigious old wines, je also teaches at Lyon's business and culinary schools.
If he isn't available, Louis Pion, who has followed exactly the same path, will accompany you on the day.
As we are a very small team, with two possible guides ( Hugo Jeanguyot and Louis Pion ), we await your request by e-mail in order to confirm our availability.
A deposit of 20% of the price of the booking is required to confirm the booking so that we can start validating our partners' bookings.
We usually depart from your hotel at 9:00 am and return around 5:00 pm.
We meet with two wineries in the morning where we visit the winery, the vineyards, learn about the history of the winery and taste 5 to 7 wines per winery.
Afterwards, we take time for lunch, either in a restaurant or in one of our partner estates (18th century Villa, Château, Maison de Maître with swimming pool) with private lunch by a regional chef and a masterclass of the finest wines from the region visited.
In the afternoon, a final visit is planned, with a choice of a final winery or another discovery with a distiller of regional spirits, a cheesemaker or a cigar maker.
All of our guides who conduct our private tours speak English and French fluently.
Yes, transport is included in all our private tours and provided by a professional driver who isn't your guide. It's important to us that the guide accompanying you is relaxed enough to introduce you to the wine region throughout the day.
For 2 people : Mercedes E-Class saloon OR Mercedes Maybach 6 on request.
For 3 to 7 people : Mercedes Van Class V
For 8 to 14 people : Mercedes Sprinter
More than 14 people : Travel bus
As the tours are private, we will pick you up at the address of your choice within a 200km radius of Lyon, whether it's your hotel or a rental.
Yes, as long as you are accompanied for the day by Hugo or Louis, lunch is included in the price of the booking. A full menu in a bistronomic, gastronomic our Michelin star restaurant with wine is included.
We will do our best to accommodate your request, subject to availability and existing bookings.
Here are our cancellation policies for all our private wine tours:
A non-refundable deposit of 20% of the booking price is required.The balance of the payment will be paid at the end of the day, directly to person with you, either by credit card (VISA, American Express, Mastercard, etc.) or in cash (euros and US dollars).
As all our wine tours are private, we will be happy to make a request to the winemaker to find out if he's available to welcome us on the date of our day.
We'll let you know if the winery charges an additional tasting fee.
Beaujolais wines are still reasonably priced. Price range from 10 to 40 euros per bottle, depending on the parcel and the work done by the winemaker on the wine sold.
In the Rhône Valley, wine depends on the appellations, which are more or less prestigious and rare.
For example, a bottle of Côte-Rotie, Condrieu or Hermitage will start at €40 and rise to over €100.
For Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage wines, prices range from €20 to €50.
We appreciate the diversity of winegrowing structures, with a particular appetite for family-run estates. So, depending on what's on offer, we'll meet either small family-run wineries or larger structures, with a greater or lesser emphasis on natural, organic or biodynamic wines.
We are partners and friends with over 40 wineries in both the Beaujolais and Rhône-Valley regions, as as in southern Burgundy, towards Mâcon.
We always make appointments at the winery a week in advance. So we don't know what the wineries will be on the day of your booking, but we can let you know which wineries we'll be visiting a few days before our wine tour.
Your children are welcome on this day. The French highway code is strict, so if your child is under 12, a child seat will be provided. This means that you will not be able to carry your child.
If your child is over 12, we don't need to provide a child seat.
The day is free for your children.
As a lover of the French art of living, we would be delighted to share our recommendations with you and to benefit from our partnerships with hotels and restaurants in the Lyon area.
Private Wine Tour around Lyon
No. The tasting is open to anyone who wants to find out more about French wine or learn more about it while having a great time.
I adapt to everyone's level, and it's always nice to be with people who share their knowledge - wine is all about sharing!
All the wine tastings in Lyon, whether for lunch or dinner will be led by Hugo Jeanguyot, founder of this small agency specializing in high-end discovery of the wine regions around Lyon.
A graduate of McGill and emlyon business school, he has won international blind wine tasting competitions ( Ruinart, Bollinger ) and is a WSET3 graduate. A wine merchant specializing in prestigious old wines, he also teaches at Lyon's business schools and culinary schools.
The wine tasting is organized in Lyon's historic district, the "Vieux-Lyon". The venue is accessible by metro, with a 2-minute walk to the meeting point at "Place Saint-Jean".
The venue for the tasting is a cheese shop with a private table for the tasting, just a 3-minutes walk from the meeting point.
Absolutely not !
The tasting is accompanied by a large portion of cheese, charcuterie, bread, truffled butter and a dessert. The tasting is the equivalent of lunch or dinner. So, there's no need to book a restaurant beforehand.
Our tastings I'll introduce you to 6 different French cheeses, made from cow's, goat's and sheep's milk. You'll also be able to sample charcuterie from local producers, freshly baked bread and truffled butter. A seasonal dessert ill also be served to round off the tasting.
Our wine tasting costs 150€ per person.
Payment for the wine tasting is made at the end of the tasting, either in cash or by credit card ( Visa, American Express, Mastercard )
A maximum of 8 people will attend this evening, with an average of 6 at a table. International travelers from every continent.
Tastings are open all year round, so you can book by e-mail all year round, subject to availability.
We offer our wine tastings in Lyon from Monday to Sunday all year round, either at 11am or at 6pm.
The wine tasting lasts approximately 2 hours 30 minutes, depending on the size of the group.
A minimum of 8 French wines will be tasted, from different vintages ( from the 1970s to the present day ), different regions and different grape varieties.
Simply send us an email or fill in the contact form, specifying the date and time you would like to attend the tasting. We will let you know if there are any places left for the wine tasting.
Of course, we'll adapt so that you can make the most of French and Lyonnais products.
Unfortunately, we don't accept children at shared wine tastings.
This is possible in the case of a private reservation, but children under the age of 18 will not be served anything ( French fruit juice instead ).
We don't charge a deposit for tastings, so we trust you to let us know as soon as possible if you cancel or are unable to attend, so that we can make room for other participants.
Of course, it is ! On request, we can organise private wine tastings events for groups of up to 30 people.
Wine Tastings in Lyon
I. What is the place of wine tasting?
Our Wine tasting are located in Lyon, "Vieux-Lyon" neighborhood, in a Cheese Shop.
II. What Wines could we taste ?
You could taste wines from all over French vineyard.
III. Who manage the Wine Tasting ?
The Wine tasting is managed by one person, dynamic and above all passionate by wines, gastronomy and cultural heritage. Our team is bilingual in English.
IV. How many Wines could we taste?
9 wines are tasted in our Wine tasting in Lyon, different colors, different vineyards and different vintages.
V. How long is a Wine Tasting?
Between 2h30 and 3h00 according to wine tasting.
