Champagne Full-Day Tour from Paris

Preston Mohr first arrived in Paris in 2003 to spend a year eating and drinking his way through France while earning his BA in Art History and French Studies at the University of Minnesota. He also holds a Masters in Global Hospitality Management from Georgia State University with a focus on food and wine tourism and sustainability. He has worked in many fields in his 13 years in France, including many facets of hospitality and education, however, wine, gastronomy, and the French <i>art de vivre</i> have always been the focal point of his existence in Paris. In 2013, Preston earned the Diploma from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET), becoming a sommelier. Preston offers wine tastings, excursions, and other gourmet wanderings using his knowledge gained from extensive travels and studies in France. His goal is to make sure you savor France one bite (or sip) at a time!

Andres was born in the tropics, educated in the U.S. with BA in International business & marketing, worked for an US multinational company for few years as a food marketing brand manager before he began traveling around the world, learning languages, premaculture, thai-yoga massage & Asian cuisine. He ended up attending one of the top cuisine & pastry schools - L’ecole de gastronomie francaise FERRANDI & working his way up in high-end restaurants & hotels for the last 6 years in Paris. He became a freelancer in 2015 to work in his personal culinary projects & create diversity, he spends his days having different experiences such as teaching workshops of cuisine & pastry around Paris for the general public, working as a trilingual translator at the famous Cordon Bleu School for the professional bread-making & pastry programs, food-styling projects along different photographs for making & publishing beautiful culinary books. He loves walking around Paris, discovering new ingredients in outdoor markets, the latest pastry shop, the best sourdough bread, new cooking trends, and deeply wishes to share those experiences with visitors.

Marine comes from Marseille in the South of France but has been leaving in Paris for 12 years. A licensed tour guide since 2014, she first studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre and then History at Nanterre University, from which she was awarded a Master degree. She also spent a semester in Italy, at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. In addition to her academic work in history and art history, she has a diploma in enology from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. Before becoming a tour guide, Marine worked for museums and art foundations. Now, in addition to guiding, she teaches History of Architecture at the Ecole du Louvre. She is passionnate about architecture, history of fashion and street art.