Reims is in the heart of champagne land in France. My partner and I had a great time here – we visited three of the champagne houses – Veuve Clicquot, Pommery and Taittinger, and tasted the wine at each one. We also went on the tour at Pommery and Taittinger where you go down into the caves (cellars) which are constructed in the old chalk quarries that the romans used when they quarried chalk for all their buildings. After all the wine, we wobbled back to our hotel.
There is a great place to eat in the main mall in town – L’Apostrophe. The trio of creme brulees is not to be missed (Vanilla, Mango and Spiced Bread). Reims is a very beautiful town and has many of the sights you hope to see in other parts of France (grand cathererals, roman ruins, etc) but is much less busy than Paris.
Definitely worth a visit and spend at least three days. I recommend you do one tour at a champagne house, but one is enough – the second one we did was pretty much more of the same. I think Pommery was a little more interesting that Taittinger – it has a much larger complex of tunnels and some amazing art work carved into the walls of the caves.