Margaux, once a marshland, is almost entirely a winemakers’ town these days. While the tiny village is so quiet it almost seems abandoned, the sea of vines that fans out in every direction is constantly bustling with activity. Home to some of Bordeaux’s most sensual and alluring wines, Margaux producers secured more châteaux as inclusions in the 1855 Classification than…
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Chateau Kirwan: Taste Fine Vintages as Old as 1967
Les Cordeliers: The Bordeaux Sparkling Wine Made in the Champagne Method
There’s a magical place inside the medieval walls of Saint-Émilion. A place where vines climb the 14th century walls of a partially ruined cloister. A place that is more than meets the eye, with a labyrinth of underground tunnels stretching for 3 kilometers in the bowels of Saint-Émilion. It’s Les Cordeliers and that labyrinth beneath it is where sparkling wines…
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Essential Apps for Your Trip to Bordeaux
Apps can make our lives so much easier. We don’t know how we lived before apps like Google Maps, WhatsApp and a slew of other apps we use in both our everyday lives and while traveling. But there’s also so many apps out there, it’s sometimes impossible to know which ones are actually useful. That’s why we’ve put together this…
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The Two Châteaux Tour at Château La Croizille
High up on one of the prettiest hillsides of Saint-Émilion at nearly the highest point in the appellation, two vastly different châteaux sit side-by-side. The modern orange and black Château La Croizille is remarkable for its architecture, and couldn’t be more different from the neighboring traditional Château Tour Baladoz. Both are owned by the De Schepper family, and the unique…
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Château Pape Clément: 5 Senses Luxury Wine Experience
Bordeaux is one of the most renowned wine regions in the world, yet not long ago it wasn’t a place you came to for wine tourism. The gates to Bordeaux’s majestic chateaux were firmly closed and the majority of the wine is sold En Primeur (a system of pre-selling the wine long before its ever even bottled that has been…
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