Bordeaux Wine-The Bordeaux Wine Experience: The Bordeaux Harvest Wine Tour

The Bordeaux Harvest Tour 2009 
September 21– September 26, 2009
(6 days, 5 nights)

The Bordeaux Harvest Tour: Tour Description
Your Tour host and Bordeaux Wine Expert: Ronald Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master

Get ready for a unique experience: This tour is really without equal as everything in and around Bordeaux just buzzes with action and anticipation. You will visit and taste at First Growths Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Haut Brion! This unparalleled wine tour will include a real pickers lunch at a Classified Growth Chateau. You will even be invited to pick some of the holy grapes yourselves! Luckily you’ll harvest just for a short while because, as romantic as it may sound, it is backbreaking tiresome work.

Bordeaux, never very open to visitors, closes like an oyster at harvest time.
Fortunately we can get you into chateaux that usually keep their gates firmly locked to visitors, especially during harvest.

And there is more! This Harvest Tour includes a dinner at Michelin rated Relais & Chateaux Restaurant with its unique view on Bordeaux.
This Michelin rated chef will prepare a very special meal for you. The restaurant is surrounded by its own vineyards.

And that's not all: Of course you will wander around in the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Saint Emilion and will discover the special way the sweet wines of the Sauternes are produced.
Indulge in gourmet meals and a unique pickers lunch at a Grand Cru Classé Chateau.
Be invited in the tasting rooms of Classified Growth Chateaux and our own Château Coulon Laurensac.
All estates visited on this tour are Classified Growths.

Wine tours for wine lovers...
Most people that come on our tours are wine lovers, people who have an appreciation of wine. Usually this is their first trip to the Bordeaux region. Most of our guests want to learn more about wine and wine tasting. And what better place to start than in Bordeaux, the world’s most famous wine region. Why not discover these "old world gems" in an informal and relaxed atmosphere?
It is true: Bordeaux and its wines can seem a bit intimidating at first. This tour will guide you through all of this. Remember: we tour prestigious estates, not pretentious people.
You’ll develop a preference for “Left Bank”or “Right Bank”, while visiting some of the best chateaux in the world. Our tours are both entertaining and informative; we prefer a down to earth approach without the snobbery that is the enemy of the real wine lover.

Chateau Coulon Laurensac