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Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FR

Bordeaux

Gravel on the left bank, limestone on the right, and an hour of daylight after dinner in July.

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What to expect

Bordeaux is not one place and has never behaved like one. The gravel banks west of the river ripen Cabernet Sauvignon; the limestone plateau east of it belongs to Merlot; and the city between them spent three hundred years selling both.

The estates that will actually sit down and pour for six people are rarely the ones on the labels you know. Those are the ones we went looking for. Two visits and a long lunch is a day; the tram from the city reaches the first of them.

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Our picks in Bordeaux

Glasses of red wine down a long outdoor tasting table
Tasting

Domaine Fontclair · Bordeaux

Gravel & Cabernet

4.8(96)1 hr 15 min12 seats

Five estate wines poured seated, with the gravel explained in the glass.

€45 / guest

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Pale gravel path running between sunlit rows of vines
Tour

Clos du Héron · Bordeaux

The Limestone Plateau Walk

4.9(54)2 hr10 seats

Twenty minutes out to the plateau, then Merlot in the rock cellar.

€55 / guest

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Rows of filled wine glasses lined up along a bar
Class

Cave des Quais · Bordeaux

Blend Your Own Bordeaux

4.8(142)1 hr 45 min10 seats

Three parcels, graduated cylinders, and a bottle of your blend to take away.

€85 / guest

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Who is here

3 producers

Everyone we have visited and approved in Bordeaux.

Orderly rows of summer vines with bare earth between them

Winery · Bordeaux

Domaine Fontclair

Cabernet Sauvignon on deep gravel, farmed by one family since 1978.

2 experiences · Margaux-Cantenac, Gironde

Vine rows on chalky white stone-strewn soil under blue sky

Winery · Bordeaux

Clos du Héron

Merlot on the limestone plateau, worked by hand on four hectares.

2 experiences · Saint-Émilion, Gironde

Dim stone-vaulted cellar tunnel lined with old wooden casks

Winery · Bordeaux

Cave des Quais

A river-front blending cellar in the old merchant quarter, open to the public.

2 experiences · Bordeaux, Gironde