La Route des Chateaux4 days / 3 nights
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This complete wine tour is the best way to experience the main Bordeaux wines : Medoc, Margaux, Pauillac, St Emilion, Pessac Leognan, Sauternes & local gastronomy. La “Vie de Chateau” Welcome in Bordeaux & transfer to the vineyard. Dinner & overnight in a Chateau. Medoc, Margaux & Pauillac The most prestigious Grand Cru Classe 1855 are located in the Medoc, visit and taste in some of them. You could also experience the Lynch Bages wine school & blend your own wine. - Pick up after breakfast - Visit of Chateau Lynch Bages, Pauillac Grand Cru Classe 1855 - The Chateau Lynch Bages wine school - Lunch in a local gourmet restaurant - Guided tour & wine tasting in a Margaux Grand Cru Classe 1855 - Overnight at your hotel in Bordeaux St Emilion & Pomerol Saint-Emilion is one of the oldest wine area of the Bordeaux region. The medieval city and the vineyard are listed by the UNESCO as World Heritage site. Pomerol & St Emilion wines are mostly blended with Merlot. - Guided tour & wine tasting in a St Emilion Grand Cru Classe - Lunch in a gourmet restaurant - Free time for personal discovery of the village - Tasting session in Pomerol or St Emilion Grand Cru appellation - Overnight at your hotel in Bordeaux Graves, Pessac Leognan & Sauternes The Graves area produce red & white wines and offers to wine lovers a various choice of very harmonious wines. Reds are powerful and full-bodied, the dry whites elegant and delicate, the sweet whites opulent and luscious. - Guided tour & wine tasting in a Pessac Leognan Grand Cru Classe - Or option : cooking class - Lunch in a local gourmet restaurant in Sauternes - Wine tasting in a Sauternes Premier Grand Cru Classe - 4:30/5pm Return to Bordeaux (hotel, train station or airport) Example of Chateaux : All our tours are differents and an unique experience to taste fine & rare wines. Haut Brion, Lynch Bages, Pontet Canet, Giscours, Palmer, Lagrange, Angelus, Canon, Figeac, Petit Village, Gazin , Franc Mayne, Smith Haut Lafitte, Guiraud, Suduiraut and many others ... Price list per person : Based on double occupancy*
* Inclusions : 3 days exclusve private minivan A/C roundtrip transportation - personal English spoken driver wine expert - 1 transfer the first day - 1 night in a chateau - 1 "gourmand" dinner - 3 lunches - 2 nights accommodation in Bordeaux - 3 breakfast - 8 wine tasting tours to top estates - Lynch Bages wine school - St Emilion guided tour - insurance - taxes. * Extra charge : Drinks, option & any personal expenses or service not mentioned in the above itinerary. Accommmodation : Can be in a winery (chateau) or attractive private guest house or boutique hotel (depending on availability). Accommodation have been selected on quality, services & strict standards of comfort. See some example. Language available : English spoken tour Note: Visits are not private & only by appointment. Chateaux & schedule depend on availabilities but most of them are members of "Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux" which is a mark of quality. We can only confirm visited properties after your payment and a definitive itinerary will be sent to you before your arrival. Usually a tour with wine tasting takes around 1h/1h30 and they propose 2 different wines from the estate. Chateaux & wineries are closed from 12am until 2pm. The left bank (Medoc) is known for its famous wines : Margaux, Pauillac, Saint Julien, Saint Estephe and prestigious Chateaux : Margaux, Palmer, Latour, Mouton Rothschild ... Grands Crus Classes 1855, Crus Bourgeois or "artisans" vintages, come and meet men and women who make these wines of exceptions. A guided tour will make you discover terroir, appellation, vat room, ageing cellar and all the winemaking process from the grape to the glass. A commented wine tasting of different vintage will close the visits. Medoc it is also forest, water, gastronomy and a wonderful architectural heritage testifying to its richness and past. Bordered by wonderful residences and fields, discover the famous “Chateau wine road” which curves through all the Medoc like an open air museum.  The right bank (Saint-Emilion) the vineyard and the landscape are listed by the UNESCO as World
Heritage. Just a handful of wonderful highlights are honoured by such a distinction.The wine is a great tradition, and it was already well known during the Gallo-Roman period. This appellation produces a tremendously wide range of wines, for the greater delight of wine lovers everywhere in the world and owes its amazing variety to the rich diversity of their terroirs. Young wines have aromas of blackcurrant, raspberry, and blackberry, as well as vanilla and fresh toast. Older wines have a bouquet of leather or venison and generally have a better structure and more strength… Sauternes King of the white syrupy wines, Sauternes is a natural sweet wine. Of a major yellow colour, we can find honey flavours, orange or white flowers. Getting old, it becomes sweetier and then takes a more spiced taste, like gingerbread. It goes perfectly with the "foie gras", sweeted-salted dishes and nut-tasted cheeses or Roquefort. The secret of this wine so particular is due to the geographical situation of its wines, set up in a small valley crossed by a river (Ciron), which makes the climatic condition so particular to growth the grapes to an extreme maturity. |
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