Visit
Cellar tour
Cellars can be toured
Champagne house · Cellar tour
Boizel
Descend 11 metres into chalk-walled cellars to see wooden barrels and bottles still riddled by hand.
Depth
11 m
Descend 11 metres underground
See
Hand-riddling
Bottles turned by hand
Cellars
Chalk
Chalk-walled passages, wooden barrels
The house
Maison Boizel is a Champagne house in Epernay whose cellars can be toured (source: Epernay - Top 5 things to do.md).
On the tour, visitors descend 11 metres underground to see wooden barrels, chalk-walled passages, and bottles being riddled (turned) by hand (source: Champagne Houses in Epernay Elegant Heritage with a Down-to-Earth Welcome.md).
On the visit
- 11 m down into the chalk
- Wooden barrels
- Hand-riddling demo
Our notesA proper underground cellar tour
The visit takes you 11 metres down through chalk passages to see wooden barrels and hand-riddling — a hands-on look at how Champagne is made.
For the underground cellars.