Champagne Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide from Reims

The coronation cathedral of the French kings and the natural starting point for the drive; the crayeres of the great houses lie a short way south of it.

Reims house whose cellars occupy Gallo-Roman chalk pits beneath the site of the former Saint-Nicaise abbey; visits by reservation.

Reims house founded in 1772 and made famous by Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, the widow who ran it from 1805; visits by reservation.

Founded in Reims in 1729, the oldest champagne house, with UNESCO-listed chalk crayeres beneath it; visits by reservation.

Reims domaine of Madame Pommery, built above kilometres of Gallo-Roman chalk cellars; visits by reservation.

A 1909 lighthouse raised above the Grand Cru vines of Verzenay as an advertisement, now a wine museum with views across the Montagne de Reims.

One of the seventeen Grand Cru villages, on the northern face of the Montagne de Reims, home to the Mailly Grand Cru growers cooperative.

Hilltop village above the Marne where Dom Perignon was cellarer of the Benedictine abbey; his tomb is in the abbey church.

Founded in 1860 by Edmond de Ayala, son of a Colombian diplomat, after his marriage brought him the Chateau d'Ay; a pioneer of drier champagne from 1865.

Ay grower whose Hemart ancestors first appear in the parish register in 1625, still farming the same Grand Cru slope.

The grand address of the houses, UNESCO-listed since 2015: Moet & Chandon, Mercier, de Venoge at number 33, Boizel and Comtesse Lafond along one street.

Eugene Mercier founded the house in 1858 at twenty and sent a 200,000-bottle barrel to the 1889 Paris World's Fair; a train tours the cellars.

Epernay house founded in 1837 by Henri-Marc de Venoge from the Swiss canton of Vaud; the blue Cordon Bleu ribbon on the neck dates from 1851.

Chateau at the top of the Avenue de Champagne named for the countess in its salon portrait by Winterhalter; the de Ladoucette family of Pouilly-Fume behind it.

Founded in 1834 by two pastry chefs, Auguste Boizel and Julie Martin; six generations on, the Roques-Boizel family still runs it.

Chouilly cooperative on the Cote des Blancs; coffee importer Nicolas Feuillatte launched the brand in 1976 and sold it to the growers' cooperative in 1986.