Saint-Emilion Morning Wine Tour - Winery & Tastings from Bordeaux

Tourist39755518135, Dec 2024

For those looking for a more summarised review, we highly recommend booking your Bordeaux Wine tours with Bordeaux Wine Trails and give them a 5 -Star rating for all categories. However, for a more elaborate review which we believe they fully merit, please keep reading.

My partner and I booked 2 full-day private tours with Bordeaux Wine Trail, the first day in the left bank, and the second day in the right bank. We were corresponding with Cinzia, who was extremely responsive and professional. She initially had put a package together but was easily able to customise it to our preferences. For example, the initial plan for the right bank featured 2 St. Emillion wineries, but at our request, she replaced one of them with a Pomerol Winey visit instead.

On the first day, we were picked up at our Château by Berit in a very comfortable 8-seater by Berit and taken to 2 Gran Cru wineries in the left bank. Throughout the journey, Berit explained just about everything we needed to know about the region of Bordeaux from a Wine perspective; the Terroir, the styles of grapes, history of the soil, taste profiles etc. To say she is extremely knowledgeable would be an understatement and this background information was very useful for when we were doing our Wine tours and tasting. Throughout our time, she was constantly engaging us and trying to ascertain our preferred taste profiles in order to recommend the correct wines that would suit our palette. Berit was extremely warm and was even kind enough to drop us off at Bordeaux city instead of at our Château which was the initial plan.

The owner of the company, Johnathan, picked us up on the second day for our visit to the right bank. He was equally as warm and also spoke to us at length about the region and about the wines. In between the two winery visits, Johnathan took us to the St Emillion village where we had lunch in a restaurant that was situated within a cave which was an amazing experience and the food and service was fantastic. He also took us around the village introducing us to some of the Wine wholesalers that he had built good connections with, and pointed out the ones to avoid as they were tourist traps. In addition, he brought us to taste some local ice cream that was started by a Michelin Starred chef which was a delight. Johnathan very clearly has had many years of experience and has built up a plethora of key connections over that time. All the while when my partner and I were doing our Wine tasting, Johnathan was actively trying to call other wineries to try and squeeze other visits in which even though didn't end up happening, it would been at no extra cost which which we thoroughly appreciated. The aspect that sets Johnathan apart is the fact that he himself is a trained Wine Sommelier which makes a massive difference for such tours.

We are very thankful to both Berit and Johnathan for making our trip to Bordeaux special and unforgettable. It goes without saying that we highly recommend booking your Bordeaux winery tours through them for a truly memorable experience.

susanitamgp, Dec 2024

The whole experience was great. The explanation of the Wine classification in Bordeaux and wine tasting was incredible.

GauravV401, Dec 2024

Had an excellent experience, one of the best in France. Special thanks to Mode, our tour guide, who was absolutely brillaint, very entertaining, very funny and lovely to talk to. This wine trail, especially with Mode is 100% recommended to anyone looking forward to visiting Bordeaux.

Ohanamp, Dec 2024

We were fortunate enough to have Alex as our guide in St Emilion. Alex is wonderful! Very friendly with a witty sense of humor but mostly very knowledgeable and took every minute to be sure my husband and I were happy and enjoying ourselves! I cannot recommend Alex enough!

834emerg, Dec 2024

Really enjoyed the wine tour with Maud, she really looked after us and packed a lot into a short time including a chateau tour, wine tasting, cheese and charcuterie tasting as well and sharing lots of information about st emillion on the journey and while we walked around the village. Thanks so much Maud, would really recommend. Suzanne and Emer from Dublin