Bordeaux Wine Tasting Class: 6 Wines & Cheese

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Duration1h 30m

GroupUp to 10

LanguagesEN · FR +1

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Six glasses of Bordeaux, tasted the way locals learn them

You taste six Bordeaux wines—one white, five reds including a grand cru from each bank—guided by a sommelier through the tasting method and regional characteristics. Local cheese and charcuterie pair each pour. The class runs about two hours in the historic center, near the Grand Theatre, and you leave with a tasting framework that works anywhere you buy wine.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Bordeaux wine tasting workshop

Meet local wine expert
Learn Bordeaux wine basics
Taste first white wine
Taste three regional red wines
Taste two fine Bordeaux wines
Enjoy local cheese and charcuterie

The Experience

The first glass arrives pale and cool in your hand, and your wine expert asks you to look at it before you drink—really look, at the color, the way light moves through it. That's where the tasting begins, not in your mouth but in noticing what you're about to taste. You're in a wine bar tucked two steps from the Grand Theatre in central Bordeaux, and for the next couple of hours, you're learning the vocabulary and method that separates a guess from an actual choice when you're standing in front of a wine shop shelf.

The structure is deliberate. You start with a single white wine to learn the universal tasting method—how to observe, smell, taste, and think about what you're experiencing—and then move into five reds that show you something specific about the region. Three glasses of single-variety wines come first, each one grown from a different grape, so you understand what each variety brings to a blend. Then come two fine wines: one from the left bank, one from the right bank, and one of them is a Bordeaux grand cru. That's the moment it clicks—why blending matters here, why the soil and the side of the river change everything. Between each pour, there's local charcuterie and cheese with fresh baguette, not as decoration but as the actual pairing, so you taste how food and wine talk to each other.

Your guide is a wine expert who knows the region inside out, and the whole thing happens in a relaxed, warm atmosphere—this is not a lecture where you sit still and listen. You're learning while you're doing it, asking questions as they come up, and nobody expects you to know anything before you walk in. By the time you leave, you'll have a real method for tasting wine, not just opinions, and you'll know what makes a Bordeaux wine taste like Bordeaux. You get an informative leaflet to take home, so the knowledge sticks.

What’s included

Your experience includes animation by a wine expert, six wines (one white and five reds), an assortment of local cheeses and charcuterie served with fresh baguette, water, and an informative leaflet to take home.

Good to know

Pets welcomePublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditions

Operated by Olala Bordeaux

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn how to taste wine with a real method instead of guessing, and you'd rather do it in a relaxed setting with a sommelier than alone at home—the structured tasting and regional focus is what makes the difference stick.