- Wine Tour Destinations
Grape Escapes is a specialist wine tour operator, with the experience necessary to provide your perfect Bordeaux wine tasting weekend.
The city of Bordeaux has benefited from huge investment in recent years, to restore it to it’s former glory as the hub of its world renowned wine trade. It is an excellent base for your Bordeaux wine tasting weekend.
Circling the city on all sides, are the vineyards of the Bordeaux wine regions: Medoc, St Emillion, Pomerol, Graves and Sauternes. Each of these regions produce wine in a different style based on the grape type and the soil. To allow customers to experience a range of Bordeaux wine tasting weekend, we offer flexible packages. These packages allow you to select which Bordeaux wine region you want to experience and depart from a central location. On the 2 night flexible Bordeaux wine tasting weekend you have the choice of Bordeaux wine tasting weekend in the Medoc or in St Emillion / Pomerol. For those people who want to experience more than one Bordeaux wine tasting tour region, the 3 night flexible package which allow you to do both of these wine tasting weekend. The flexible Bordeaux wine tasting weekend also includes a guided tasting event and a gourmet dinner.
For those who want a premium rather than flexible tour, we have the Prestige Bordeaux wine tasting weekend. This is a 3 night trip and has 2 full days of Bordeaux wine tasting to the Medoc and St Emillion. On this Bordeaux wine tasting weekend, you will be collected from your hotel by a guide with a luxury minicoach. You will visit Cru classe and Grand Cru classe houses and will have a gourmet lunch on each day. Please contact us for more information about dates and prices.
