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BORDEAUX TOUR PRICES INCLUDE
--Full-time services of a professional Off the Beaten Path Expert Historical Guide/Tour Leader, who serves as guests liaison during this fully escorted Bordeaux Harvest wine and culinary program. Your guide(s) handles all of the details while you, our guest, enjoy the maximum the Bordeaux wine region has to offer. All of our guides are fully licensed American guides living in France and speak fluent French.
--4 nights, Home Based, Luxurious Hotel Accommodations (NO Hotel Hopping) at Luxury Hotel & Spa, Les Sources de Caudalie.
--3 Daily Walks of 1st Growth wine producing areas of the Bordeaux wine region, including the Saint Emilion Jurisdiction, Sauternes, Medoc or Graves.
--VIP access, privately guided visits and VIP wine tastings at classified Grand Cru wine producers visited during the tour
--Cultural and Historical Discovery of Bordeaux wine growing villages throughout the program
--Morning Bread Baking workshop with our local baker using his 19th century wood fired oven followed by a traditional "casse-croute" lunch (informal gourmet lunch with our Baker and Master Chef Antoine)
--Hands-On Recreational Cooking Class with our Master Chef at her 19th century castle followed by wine tasting and a gourmet dinner of Bordelais recipes prepared during cooking class.
--Oneology discovery and instruction during our private, wine tasting workshop in Saint Emilion village.
--All fees for cooking class, estate tours, wine tasting workshop, bread baking class, wine tasting.
--4 Buffet Breakfast of freshly baked croissants and baguette and other traditional French breads, cereal, fruit, home-made fruit compotes, home-made jams, yoghurts, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, freshly squeezed orange juice.
--2 Lunches.
--3 Dinners. Meals include classified "Grand Cru" wines (1/2 bottle per person per meal).
--All gratuities to service personnel and local taxes at hotel and restaurants.
--Visit at the Barrel Maker of Chateau Haut Brion
--Ground transportation during the tour, roundtrip transfers between Bordeaux and our hotel on tour departure and conclusion day at specified times.
--Limited to 8-10 guests per tour departure date
--Tour excludes: roundtrip airfare to and from Bordeaux, France, gratuities to tour guide/leader, personal expenses, extras at the hotel, lunches and dinners as noted in the itinerary and above, non-alcoholic beverages, wines and alcoholic beverages ordered beyond the provisions of the tour and anything not specified as included in the itinerary.
ACTIVITY LEVEL: 20% Moderate, 80% Easy
TOUR BEGINS:
Group pick-up : Your guide meets you and the other Guests of the group on Tour start date at 2:00 PM at the Saint Jean Rail Station in Bordeaux, France. To reach the meeting location for the Tour, travelers take the TGV (high speed train) either directly from the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to the Saint Jean Rail Station or from the Gare de Montparnasse in downtown Paris to the Saint Jean Rail Station in Bordeaux. TGV Travel time is approximately 3 hours from downtown Paris and 4 hours from the CDG airport.
TOUR ENDS:
Group drop-off on Tour end date at 10 AM at Bordeaux Saint Jean Rail Station.
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