Mercier is a Champagne producer based in the Épernay region of Champagne. The house, founded in 1858 by Eugène Mercier, produces both vintage and non-vintage cuvée, which is stored in 18 km long cellar tunnels located 30 m underground.
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This tour was by far the worst of the tours I've had in the champagne region. Our guide was lovely (she made it 2 stars) but at some points it was quite hard to properly hear what she saying. There wasn't as much explanation as with some others. Me and my girlfriend picked the vintage tasting, meaning that you would get a regular wine in this case the blanc the noirs and a vintage in this the 2007 vintage. Both were really flat and I wouldn't even consider buying these for 30 and 60 euros respectively. The wines were explained by their 'sommelier' who was wearing a WSET level 2 badge, but come on WSET level 2 isn't a sommelier. I have exactly the same level and this is for my side job, which I do alongside university. I wouldn't recommend this tour considering it was 45...
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Not the greatest experience.
You go in and you see a big barrel which is cool. You get a listing thing which is hand held and explains stuff as you on your tour. Being hand held makes it difficult to take photos at the same time.
You go on a train around the cellars under the building, which is quite interesting.
Afterwards you go to a holding area where you are given 3 glasses of champagne. There are no seats, you not given any explanations about what is different about the champagnes or how they are made. You just stand and drink. I felt this was a missed opportunity to really sell the product.
There is a small shop where you can buy merchandise. Note the champagne is a couple of euros more expensive than the local...
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It was ok. The train is very slow, some of the cellars you can see but very limited. Definitely the most impersonal tour, partly because the group was enormous and partly as it's an audio tour only. Felt largely like a branding exercise, was a bit disappointed we didn't get to press buttons showing our favourite champagne house values or for those of the parent company (LMVH), by a happy coincidence Mercier and LMVH share the same values. The tasting was fine, there was definitely a lot of spontaneity in each glass which is a defining Mercier value. All fairly high dosage (by comparison not by style) 9-11g/l. Some of the tour content was repeated 3 times. But hey they have a big selfie barrell and...
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