Pictures:
The 2019 Group at Château Canon-La-Gaffelière, Appellation
Saint-Émilion, Premier Grand Cru Classé B, with Proprietor Count Stephan
von Neipperg, at Château
Bouscaut, Appellation Pessac-Léognan, Cru Classé de Graves, with Owner
Sophie Cogombles-Lurton and her Husband Laurent Cogombles and at Château
Lafite-Rothschild, Appellation Pauillac, 1ière Grand Cru Class.
Dear wine friends,
It is just six weeks until the wine tour to the Bordeaux wine region starts.
Hotel
reservations for these tours need to be made well in advance - more
than 6 months earlier. Since I never know how many singles and how many
couples join the tours I always reserve enough rooms to accommodate
every possibility.
At
this point I have one room left (single or double occupancy). I do have
to cancel this room by August 17th to avoid penalty charges.
I
would like to let my wine friends know about this fantastic tour. There
might be someone out there who would like to jump on the unexpected
opportunity to explore the Bordeaux wine region at the end of
September.
The
tour starts in Bordeaux city. Our first day takes us to Château
Haut-Bailly in the Graves region where we can look at the brand new chai
finished during the Covid years, and to a merchant house where we learn
about the system of the “place de Bordeaux”. After the first day, we
move around to get the feel for the different subregions of Bordeaux. We
stay two nights in breathtakingly beautiful Saint-Emilion, then visit a
Château in the Entre-Deux-Mers region where the owner/winemaker - Marc
Lurton - will giver us a thorough lecture on winemaking in Bordeaux; we
head across the Garonne river to explore Sauterne, and go back to
Bordeaux city for Friday and Saturday night. The Saturday we will spend
in Puisseguin Saint-Émilion, one of the Saint-Émilion satellite regions,
with a winemaker family and learn about biodynamic winemaking. Sunday
we head out to the Bassin d’Arcachon where we learn about oyster
breeding and harvesting, and of course we will have an oyster feast with
some crisp Bordeaux white wines. After that we spend three nights in
the Médoc area to explore Saint-Éstèphe, Pauillac, Saint-Julien, and
Margaux. We will have three exceptional wine pairing lunches and dinners
at famous Châteaux with the owners/winemakers/general managers, and
will also visit a barrel production facility to learn how important it
is to produce the right barrel with the right wood, and correct toasting
to perfectly age the Bordeaux wine.
Don’t
hesitate to call me at my US cell phone (I am currently home in McLean,
VA) or send me an email with all questions who may have. If you are
interested in the tour, I will send you the updated itinerary for the
2022 tour.
Cheers
Annette
Wine Tours - Wine Events - Wine Education
Annette Schiller, Diplom-Volkswirt
Washington DC - Frankfurt am Main
USA: +1 703 459 7513
GER: +49 -177 337 0281
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