Food & Wine pairings
«Champagnes & Cheeses» Workshop
Champagne Alfred Gratien x François Robin
The result of the meeting of two craft enthusiasts, Nicolas Jaeger, Cellar Master and François Robin, Cheese Expert, one of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Fromager, this workshop is an invitation to a sensory journey.
In order to explore the aromatic dimensions of our champagnes and to choose the cheeses that would reveal their characteristics, we compared the similarities of a great wine of Champagne adn a great cheese, whose elaboration, gestures and know-how are transmitted from generation to generation.
80.00€ / person
- Cuvees & cheeses following the season, booking 48h ahead.
- Duration : 1h45
- Possible to realize the workshop without the tour, at the price of 70.00€ per person – duration 1h00.
- Languages : FR / ENG
- Tasting only available for adults
Exclusive Workshops
Private visit
Immerse yourself in the heart of our unique know-how for more than 160 years, with this
exclusive tour, where we open the doors of our wine library.
In the privacy of this place marked by the imprint of time and people, discover the typicity of our
vintages, still worked with the ancient traditions of ageing.
Visit & tasting of Alfred Gratien Brut Vintage inside the wine library, followed by a tasting of
three cuvées: Alfred Gratien Brut, Alfred Gratien Cuvée Paradis Rosé Vintage 2008 & Alfred Gratien Cuvée Paradis Brut Millésimé.
400.00€ incl. VAT for 2 people, then 70.00€ per person if less than 8 people in total
- Duration : 2h00
- Languages : FR / ENG
- Tasting only available for adults
Vertical tasting
Discover our House by visiting the cellar & underground cellar, then take part in a tasting of old vintages from our vinothèque.
An opportunity to rediscover a part of the Champagne tradition, with wines vinified and aged under wood, without malolactic fermentation and corked in the old-fashioned way.
Contact us for booking details
- Minimum number of participants : 4
- Tasting only available for adults
- Languages : FR / ENG
- Duration : 2 hours
Cooperage workshop
Champagne Alfred Gratien x Tonnellerie de Champagne
Since 1864, Maison Alfred Gratien has been vinifying and maturing its wines exclusively in
oak barrel, without malolactic fermentation. The exchanges between the wine and the wood
promote micro-oxygenation that brings the wine to life, gives it character, a certain roundness:
this is where our signature lies.
In our cellar of nearly 1 000 barrels, discover the Champagne tradition and come and meet
Jérôme Viard, artisan cooper and founder at the Tonnellerie de Champagne.
Dive into the heart of the different stages of building an oak barrel and discover how Jérôme
Viard and Nicolas Jager, our Cellar Master, collaborated to shape the barrels of House
Alfred Gratien, in order to reveal the full potential of our future great wines of
Champagne.
Jérôme Viard will pass on his passion and knowledge of wood and cooperage, inherited from
ancestral techniques combining gestures and tools, in order to shape by hand these cases
that will see the birth of the first Champagne wines, the clear wines.
Thanks to the transmission of his know-how, you will have the privilege of accompanying him
in the shaping of a barrel, to discover the love of the gesture and the material.
Visit with the intervention of our cooper Jérôme Viard, the participation in the assembly of a
barrel and the tasting of Alfred Gratien Brut, Alfred Gratien Millésimé and Alfred Gratien
Paradis Brut Millésimé.
650.00€ for 2 people on a private tour
- Group rate from 4 people – 215€ per person
- Duration : 2h30
- Languages : FR / ENG
