Saint Emilion Day Tour

I live in the USA and when looking online there were so many tours to choose from and so many reviews, the number of tours and offers were overwhelming. I was expecting to stay in Bordeaux for 4 days and after my initial research it was clear that I needed to define what I wanted from the tour. So I decided I would just do one tour and it would be a full day. Then I figured that I should concentrate in one region and not try “to do Bordeaux”. The write-ups and reports of St Emillion captured my attention and I decided to just take one wine tour but make it an all day tour and in one region so I am not wasting time traveling form one place to another… some tours offered left and right bank in the same day, which I thought would waste valuable relaxing/vacation time. Another consideration was that I did not want to be cramming in the tastings or start drinking wine immediately after my breakfast! This particular tour first visited the village and then tastings did not start until close to noon and of course just before lunch. So this became the perfect day with the perfect host, Hugo. He was knowledgeable and very sensitive to the needs of his tour guests. The wines we tried were awesome and all the producers were very amiable and of course knowledgeable about their own products, as was Hugo. There was certainly no snobbery just a group of people visiting Chateaux and enjoying delicious wine. I highly recommend this company and this particular tour if you want to take in great scenery, taste delicious wine and relax, eating local cuisine which was provided as part of the tour.

This tour is on the expensive side compared to some others but well worth it. 3 smaller producers, family owned estates, includes lunch and a guided tour around Saint-Emilion with an English speaking guide for the day. Small group was great without having to manage too many numbers. Highlight of the day was a wine tasting with Tristan under the trees in the country side, just beautiful. Highly recommended, Valentino was the perfect host. Thank you

The wine tour couldn’t have been better. Wonderful chateau hosts with deep passion of wine and knowledge of the various grapes growing in the region. The small group and excellent driver Florian was right on. Saint Emilion was spectacular. Would have liked to had some photo stops in the spectacular countryside. I highly recommend this tour. Richard

We really enjoyed the tour and visiting the wineries. The pick up location was in the center of Bordeaux and we had a great guide (Remi). We started with a walk and tour around Saint Emilion and then went to the wineries for lunch and tastings. Our guide was very knowledgeable about the area and the wines and answered every question we asked. The van was very comfy. We had lunch at the first winery and this was great because we could enjoy the wines with food which really brought out the flavors. The only suggestion that I would have for the other wineries would be to have some kind of snack with the wine as many of these wines are best tasted with food.