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Pack your bags for a nine-day tour of France’s wine capital and surrounding area.

• Luxury accommodations.
• Eight gourmet dinners and two lunches.
• Visit Bordeaux’s new wine museum, proclaimed by the city mayor as the “Guggenheim to wine.”
• Enjoy vineyard tours and tastings in St. Emilion, St. Estephe, Pessac-Leognan and St. Julien.
• Tour a Cognac distillery and an artisanal cooperage.

Day 1

Arrival day in Bordeaux. Enjoy welcome champagne prior to our first gourmet dinner in the evening. We stay in our luxury accommodations for 3 nights.

Day 2

Following breakfast, we’ll travel to Arcachon for a boat cruise (weather permitting) around the bay where you’ll enjoy views of the Dune of Pilat and the world- famous oyster parks. Lunch is included today. We’ll return to the hotel to freshen up before a gourmet dinner.

Day 3

After breakfast, we’ll visit La Cite du Vin — the newly opened wine museum. After the visit, you’ll have free time for lunch on your own and to explore the city of Bordeaux. In the evening, we’ll meet for our last gourmet dinner in the French wine capital.

Day 4

Today is a wine lover’s dream as we explore three major wine producing areas: St. Julien, St. Estephe and Pauillac, with tastings and vineyard tours. We’ll also visit an artisanal cooperage, where we’ll learn all about the process of making wine barrels. In the evening, we check in to a grand chateau — a fourth-growth estate — where we will stay for 2 nights.

Day 5

After breakfast, we’ll drive to Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, for a visit and tasting. After the tour, we’ll head to Margaux where you will have time to visit the village and have lunch on your own. Later, we’ll return to our hotel for a cellar visit and a tasting. Dinner tonight will be our last gourmet dinner at the Chateau.

Day 6

Today’s highlight is the village of St. Emilion and another wine tasting. You’ll have plenty of time on your own to explore the medieval village – a UNESCO World Heritage Site — in the heart of the famous Bordeaux wine area. Our home for the next 3 nights will be a luxurious turn-of-the-20th-century chateau, where we’ll enjoy a Champagne aperitif before dinner on this first evening.

Day 7

After a leisurely breakfast, we’ll drive to the Sauternais region. Lunch is on your own. You’ll have plenty of time to explore the sleepy village of Sauternes and learn about the beneficial grey fungus – Botrytis cinerea, or “noble rot” – that helps make its famous sweet dessert wines. In the afternoon, we’ll take a short drive to Chateau Cheval Blanc for a visit and tasting. We’ll enjoy another gourmet meal in the evening in St. Emilion.

Day 8

After breakfast, we’ll head to Jarnac — the birthplace of former French President Francois Mitterand – where you’ll have time to explore and enjoy lunch on your own. In the afternoon, we’ll visit the a cognac distillery. A farewell dinner awaits in the evening.

Day 9

The tour ends after breakfast.