There are famous wine-places all over France. Reims is one of them. Reims is an important city in the champagne-region. Champagne is a sparkling wine from France. It can be made from the grape-varieties Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. The first one is a white variety and the other two are red grapes. You […]
Before we went to Château Smith Haut Lafitte my wife and I decided to visit the village of Margaux. It looks very quiet and perhaps from the outside a little bit boring and old-fashioned. The village might surprise you. It isn’t very big and it hasn’t got a lot of nice shops but… It is
In the Bordeaux region are some of the most prestigious wineries in the world. The best wines of the Medoc (Margaux, Pauillac, Saint -Estèphe and Saint Julien-Beychevelle) and the Sauternes (sweet wines) where classified in 1855 from Premier Cru to Cinquième Cru. In this classification they forgot to mention the wines of the wine-area Graves.
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Is a city with some very nice areas. One of the places to be in Bordeaux is the ‘Cité du Vin’ (The Wine City). This relatively new wine institution opened its doors in spring 2016. In this building you can find an incredible wine-shop (with wines from all over the world), a wine-boutique, a
