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Exploring the Beautiful Town of Beaune France

February 13, 2023 Leave a Comment

What’s not to love about visiting France’s Burgundy Region? We love its food, its wines, and its atmosphere. The largest city in the Burgundy wine region is Beaune. It is also one of our favorite small French cities in the area. We enjoy exploring its history, character, signature buildings, restaurants, and many tasting rooms …

Filed Under: Activities, Beaune, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Destination Type, Dining, Featured-City, France, Hotels, Hotels, Museums, Restaurants, Sightseeing, Travel, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveTravelExperiences, ActiveWineExperiences, Cote de Beaune, Cote de Nuits, Hospices de Beaune, Hotel Abbaye de Maizieres, Hotel-Dieu, La Caveau des Arches, Le Cheval Noir, le Montrachet, Ma Cuisine, Musee du Vin de Bourgogne, Voie des Vignes

Grands Crus 2017 Bordeaux Wine

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux is a group of 134 top wine-producing Châteaux from a number of Bordeaux’s most prized wine appellations. The group sponsors a number of wine tastings that provide an opportunity to sample wines from the region’s newly released vintages. The January 2020 San Francisco Event focused on 2017 and 2018 […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, California, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, San Francisco, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: ActiveWineExperiences, Appellation Pomerol, Botrytis, Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Chateau Coutet, Chateau Criozet-Bages, Chateau Dauzac, Chateau de Chantegrive, Chateau Doisy Daene, Chateau d’Yquen, Chateau Ferrande, Chateau Giscours, Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse, Chateau Gruaud Larose, Chateau Guiraud, Chateau Haut-Bages Liberal, Chateau Kirwan, Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Chateau Lafron-Rochet, Chateau Lascombes, Chateau Leoville Poyferre, Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Château Marquis de Terme, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Ormes De Pez, Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Chateaus Carbonnieux, Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Medoc, Haut-Peyraguey, Left Bank, Malartic-Lagraviere, Margaux, Pauillac, Right Bank, Saint Estephe, Saint-Julien

Bordeaux Wine Tasting Summary

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

What an incredible time we had on our Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour, put on by The Bordeaux Wine Experience. Great hosts, friendly co-participants, incredible wines and an excellent learning and tasting experience. In summary of this adventure, we tasted the following wines, Each day links to a description of the day. Day 1: Masterclass […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Europe, Featured-City, Featured-Trips, Food & Wine, France, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Bordeaux Wine Experience, Bordeaux wines

Bordeaux Wine Experience Day 5: Right Bank

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

We were lucky to snag 2 spots in 2015 for The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour put on by The Bordeaux Wine Experience. Five great days of tasting and learning about incredible Bordeaux wines. Days 1-4 were very informative and included a lot of tasting of Bordeau wines. Can Day 5 top it all? Day 5 […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Destination Type, Europe, Featured-City, France, Saint Emilion, Travel, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Chateau Angelus, Château Coulon Laurensac, Chateau Gazin, Pomerol, Pommard, Saint Emilion

Bordeaux Wine Experience Day 4: Southern Bordeaux: Graves and Sauternes

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

We were lucky to snag 2 spots in 2015 for The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour put on by The Bordeaux Wine Experience. Five great days of tasting and learning about incredible Bordeaux wines. Days 1, 2 and 3 were very informative and included a lot of tasting of Bordeau wines. Day 4 had big shoes […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Destination Type, Europe, Featured-City, Food & Wine, France, Travel, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Chateau d’Yquem, graves, Haut Bailly, Haut Brion, Pessac-Leognan, sauterne

Bordeaux Wine Experience Day 3: The Market, Cooking Class and Afternoon in Bordeaux

August 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

We were lucky to snag 2 spots in 2015 for The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour put on by The Bordeaux Wine Experience. Five great days of tasting and learning about incredible Bordeaux wines. Days 1 and 2 were very informative and included a lot of tasting. Day 3 took a different spin. Day 3 started […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Destination Type, Europe, Featured-City, Food & Wine, France, Travel, Wine Region, Wine Tasting Tagged With: Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour, cooking class

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