Bassuet – Champagne Visits and Walking Trails

In Bassuet, visits to Champagne houses and a walking trail offer different options for planning your day. The producers each have their own focus: a vineyard visit and guided tasting at Champagne Dantan; insights into the winery, press room and press at Champagne Jean-Louis Chauré; and tours and tastings at Champagne Oudart Ortillon and Champagne Bernard Lonclas. By contrast, the Circuit à Bassuet passes through a wooded section, by a chalk quarry and up to a ridge. You can plan your time according to whether you are more interested in Champagne production or the landscape.

Visit Champagne Houses in Bassuet

Champagne Dantan is located in Bassuet, in the heart of the Vitryat area of Champagne. The house welcomes visitors year-round, by appointment only, for vineyard visits, tours of the winery and guided tastings. The specific features mentioned—the vineyard, winery and guided tasting—give you concrete points of reference when choosing a visit.

Champagne Jean-Louis Chauré in Bassuet offers tours of the winery, the press room and the press, as well as tastings; visits are by appointment only. Unlike Dantan, Chauré explicitly includes the press in its tour offering, while Dantan mentions a vineyard visit. This makes it possible to distinguish the focus based on the specific locations named, rather than treating all tastings as the same kind of visit.

Champagne Oudart Ortillon is a winery in Bassuet with a history spanning three generations, located in the Coteaux Vitryats in the Marne. It invites visitors for tours and tastings; confirm the arrangements before your trip. Every stage, from the grape harvest to the production of the cuvées, takes place on site. The reference to three generations describes the winery’s history, while the stages carried out on site offer a second perspective on how it operates.

Production and History at Champagne Bernard Lonclas

At Champagne Bernard Lonclas in Bassuet, the visitor tour explains the history of the house and how Champagne is made. Topics include the winery, press centre, ageing in the cellar and riddling; a tasting is also part of the tour. The tour brings together the house’s history and several aspects of Champagne production in a single visit format. When choosing a visit, you can compare it with those whose focus is specified as the vineyard, winery or press.

A historical milestone for Champagne Bernard Lonclas is precisely dated: on 31 March 1974, Bernard Lonclas first acquired “La Touaille,” a 55-are Chardonnay plot on the south-eastern slopes of Bassuet. This acquisition links the house’s history to a specifically named vineyard, the Chardonnay grape variety and a particular slope location. For travellers who want to learn about the house’s development as well as take a tour, this date provides a clear starting point.

The Circuit à Bassuet and the Coteaux Vitryats Route

The “Circuit à Bassuet” walking trail is 14 km long and graded as easy. It passes through a wooded section, climbs in hairpin bends after a chalk quarry and reaches a ridge. In suitable weather, the ridge offers far-reaching views towards the north-east. The route information was updated on 13 August 2024 and may not be current. Check the route and trail conditions before setting out.

The Coteaux Vitryats tourist route covers a wider area: it connects Bassuet with other communities in the Coteaux Vitryats. This distinction lets you choose the Circuit à Bassuet as a walking loop or the route connecting several communities, depending on whether you want to focus your walk locally or regionally.

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For the broader travel overview: Marne.