Wine-Bordeaux

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You don't need to worry how to collect the information about wines in Bordeaux. Not only the city of Bordeaux but also each village has the tourist information, and some have also La Maison du Vin(wine information center), where you can find plenty of information about AOC, tours or wine schools for travelers. Furthremore, You will also find bookstores full of wine books.

City of Bordeaux

Office du tourisme: First of all you must visit it, where is the center of information about winery cruising, as well as sightseeing of Bordeaux. You can get some pamphlets about places of chateaux/domaine and informations of some tours. You can also apply the tours and start your winery cruising bus tour there. Some staffs understand English.
  Office de Tourisme BORDEAUX
  12,cours XXX Juillet
  tel 05 56 00 66 00
  fax 05 56 00 66 01
  http://www.mairie-bordeaux.fr/

La Maison du Vin: In various Bordeaux wine fairs, have you ever seen the symbol of wine glasses with a bow? This is the symbol of this "La Maison du Vin" in Bordeaux. They offer information of Bordeaux wines through pamphlets, videos and so on, as well as operating a wine school. You can taste and buy some here. Some staffs speak English. Faced to the Tourist Information.
  Masion du Vin de Bordeaux
  3, cours du XXX Juillet
  tel 05 56 00 22 88
  fax 05 56 00 22 82
  e-mail Vins@vins-bordeaux.fr
  http://www.vins-bordeaux.fr/

Liquor Shops: You can ask shop assistants about their recommendation of chateaux. However, you can rarely expect them to let you taste.

La Vinothèque: 8, cours du XXX Juillet; tel: 05 56 52 32 05; Standing on the side of the Office de Tourisme, it holds old vintages (go through the rightside corridor at the back of the shop and you can find them).Delivery service to overseas is available.
L'Intendant: 2, allées de Tourny; tel: 05 56 48 01 29; fax: 05 56 81 18 87; You can find the shop on the same square of La Vinotheque, Maison du Vin and the Maison du Tourisme. After passing through a narrow entrance, you will be impressed to see spiral steps up to 5th floor filled with wine bottles, the last one of which on the top floor was Chateau Beychevelle `62(at the time of 97/11).For example, the price for the set of 3 bottles(Ch.d'Yquem`90, Ch.Lafite Rothschild`93 and Ch.Cheval Blanc`93)was FFR.2,676(at the time of 97/11).Although there is no delivery service to overseas, you can bring them into a post office on the opposite side.
Caves de Tourny: 62, allées de Tourny; tel: 05 56 52 23 32
Bordeaux-Magnum: 3, rue Gobineau; tel: 05 56 48 00 06

L'École du Vin (Tasting school): Coordinated by Maison du Vin, the school offers various programs spoken in French, German and English and once a year, Japanese (lectured by a Bordeaux-based Japanese sommelier), from one-day seminar to 5weeks(once a week) course. Mainly teaching tasting, they sometimes include wineries cruising. Since the course schedule changes every year, you'd better confirm the schedule in its WWW site before application.
Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux
1 cours du XXX Juillet
tel 05 56 00 22 66
fax 05 56 00 22 82
e-mail Vins@vins-bordeaux.fr
http://ecole.vins-bordeaux.fr/

La Maison du Vin in other regions

Offer information of wine (ex; where wineries are) and sell wines. In some cases, you can try tastings.

Region	Village where La Maison du Vin is	Note
Médoc	St.Estèphe
	Pauillac
	Margaux	If you are in need of the wine list at 97/11,do not hesitate to contact us
HAUTE-GIRONDE	Bourg	You can try tastings
HAUTE-GIRONDE	Blaye	You can try tastings
Libournais et Vallée de la Dordogne	Fronsac
	Beychac et Caillau
	St-Émilion	offers tasting seminars. Time: 11:00a.m.(for 1 hour) Term: mid Jul.-mid Sep. Price: Ffr.100('97). If you are in need of the wine list at Nov.1997,do not hesitate to contact us.
	Montagne	St.Émilionsatellites
	Puisseguin	St.Émilion satellites
	Lussac	St.Émilion satellites
	Castillon-la-Bataille
	Ste-Foy-la Grande
Entre-Deux-Mers	Langoiran
	Cadillac	You can try tastings
	St-Macaire
	La Réole
	Sauveterre-de-Guyenne
Sud-Gironde	Podensac	Graves district
	Barsac	You can try tastings
	Sauternes	You can try tastings
Around Bordeaux city	Beychac-et-Caillau	Name is "Maison de la Qaulité" You can try tastings. AOC Bordeaux & Bordeaux Supérieur
Around Bordeaux city	Quinsac

Opening hours (in general)：: June-September/9:00-19:00 (every day); Others/14:00-18:00(Mon.) 9:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00(Tue.-Sat.)


Maison du vin Margaux	Maison du vin Graves	Maison du vin Sauternes

Liquor shops in other area

Espace Vins（St.Émilion)

1 bis Place Bouqueyre

tel 05 57 24 71 46

fax 05 57 24 71 47

On the line of Maison du Vin, its covers whole Bordeaux as well as St.Émilion.

If you are in need of the wine list at 97/11,do not hesitate to contact us.

Wine Museums

Some chateaux have their own museums showing vinification in old days.

Musée du Vin et de la Vigne dans l'art
Ch.Mouton-Rothschild

33250,Pauillac

tel 05 56 59 22 22

Musée des Arts et Métiers de la Vigne et du Vin
Ch.Maucaillou

33480,Castelnau-de-Médoc,Moulis-en-Médoc

tel 05 56 58 01 23

Other museums

VINORAMA

12 cours du Médoc(city of Bordeaux)

tel 05 56 39 53 02

You can try tastings.

Musée d'Aquitaine

Cours Pasteur(city of Bordeaux)

tel 05 56 10 17 11

You will learn about history of vinification from 1750 to 1950.

Musée de la vigne et du vin

domaine du Sabatey

238, Cours du Général de GAULLE 33179 GRADIGNAN (GRAVES)

tel/fax 05 56 89 00 79

A farm house in 18 century is now open as a museum.

Ecomusée du Libournais

33570 montagne

tel 05 57 74 56 89

About 4km north of St.-Émilion, you can enjoy a good view from the museum of 500m2 area.


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