King Charles III was a while back in Bordeaux visiting a wine château on his French state visit. At the same time we had a visit on our most recent Bordeaux tour and happened to be at a château just five minutes away.
King Charles should have come over to us because I can almost guarantee that we got better food and better wines. Our lunch visit is to a small chateau where, after the tour of the vineyard and the (spectacular) wine cellar, we sit down to lunch in the château’s dining room. And what a lunch. A lunch that does not pale in comparison to a two- or three-star restaurant. And, since we are at the chateau, of course we enjoy a series of wines from its own production. Nothing you can reasonably afford to treat yourself to in a restaurant…
I would also say that the wines of “our” chateau rate even a notch higher than the “king’s”. He should have come over!
At another of our Bordeaux lunches, our host usually rummages around in the cellar and sees what he can come up with to treat us to this time. A gem from 199X perhaps? A 2011 magnum? Or why not both and some more? We never know in advance.
But I digress, the tour is about wine, not just lunches. It will be a wine tour where you get to see what happens behind the scenes, not just the glossy facades, and discover lots of wonderful wines.
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PS: We have written a book about Bordeaux, and have been travelling there since 1986. Can you find a better guide and tour operator?
