Bordeaux: Wine Tasting Class & St-Emilion Château Tour

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Duration7h 30m

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Eleven wines, two châteaux, one afternoon in the vines

You taste 11 wines across two sessions—one in a Bordeaux tasting room, one at a classified château in St-Emilion. A guide leads you through the blending workshop, then the village on foot, while minivan transport and lunch timing are already arranged. You avoid the logistics of finding a winery, driving between stops, and figuring out which château is worth the detour.

7h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Wine tasting and St Emilion visit

Small-group wine tasting in Bordeaux
Visit Château Growth Classified and wine tasting
Tour UNESCO village of St Emilion
Return to Bordeaux to end tour

The Experience

The morning light hits the barrel room at exactly the angle that makes you understand why people spend their lives in this work. You're standing in Bordeaux's city center with seven other people—never more than eight on this tour—and a guide who knows the difference between what tastes good and what tastes like money. The tasting class starts here, not in some tourist trap, but in a real space where the work happens. You'll taste your way through the first batch of wines, learning the mechanics of what makes Bordeaux wines different: the blend, the terroir, the way a château's name on a bottle means something specific about soil and stone and time. By the time you've tasted four or five, you stop thinking about whether you like it and start thinking about why.

Then there's lunch—free time, which means you eat where the guide tells you to eat, and you'll be grateful for that. After, the minivan takes you out of the city toward St-Emilion, a UNESCO-listed village that sits on a hillside like it was placed there by someone who understood drama. You visit a Château Growth Classified property—the kind with actual vines and actual history—and taste another three or four wines while someone who works there walks you through what you're holding. The village itself gets a guided tour on foot: narrow streets, medieval stone, a church built into the rock. It's the kind of place that photographs well but feels better when you're standing in it, slightly dizzy from wine and walking.

The whole day runs from morning through late afternoon, with 11 wines tasted across two separate sessions. Transport is included—minivan pickup and drop-off in Bordeaux—so you're not negotiating a rental car or a taxi route. The group size caps at eight, which means you're not herded through with thirty other people. It's small enough that the guide notices if you have a question, large enough that you're not the only one asking it.

What’s included

Your day includes minivan pickup and drop-off in Bordeaux, a wine-tasting and blending workshop in the city center, 11 wine tastings across two sessions, entry to a Château Growth Classified property in St-Emilion, a guided walking tour of the UNESCO-listed village, and transport between all stops. Lunch is on your own during the free time between the morning class and the afternoon château visit.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by à la française

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste serious Bordeaux wines without arranging transport between wineries or deciding which château to visit—the itinerary handles both, and the small-group size means you're not lost in a crowd of thirty.