Bordeaux & Saint-Émilion Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide

Saint-Emilion, France
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Duration4h - 8h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesChinese, English
Private tourOnly your group will participate

Overview

Drive the Bordeaux Right Bank yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point, Saint-Émilion, Libourne or Bordeaux, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. Narrated stories cover the people and the ground: you'll hear why the Jurisdiction became the first vineyard landscape UNESCO ever listed, how the Jurade got its charter from King John in 1199, what blue clay does for Pétrus, and how a garagiste with a 0.6-hectare plot outscored it in 1995. No group, no schedule, no guide; pause for a long lunch in the village, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops, because everything downloads offline. You'll need a car and a designated driver; château visits are booked and paid directly with the estates.

Also works with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto!

What's included

  • Email and in-app chat support
  • Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route
  • Buy once, no expiry: use it on this trip and every future trip
  • Complete offline download: audio, maps and route stored on your phone
  • In-app map with navigation between stops
  • Free content and audio updates for life
  • 36 mapped châteaux across Saint-Émilion, Pomerol, Lalande-de-Pomerol, Fronsac and the Côtes with whether a reservation is required
  • 16 regional chapters: the UNESCO listing, the Jurade, the monolithic church, Pomerol's blue clay and the garagistes
  • GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Saint-Émilion and Pomerol: stories play automatically at each location
  • One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Château visits and tasting fees (paid directly at each estate)
  • Visit reservations, where required
  • Food, meals and snacks
  • Transport: rental car, fuel, parking or driver
  • Mobile data used to download the tour (download over wifi and it is free)
  • Monolithic church tours and other paid attractions

What to expect

  1. Saint-Emilion
    45m
    Medieval hill town at the centre of the Jurisdiction, the first vineyard landscape ever listed by UNESCO, in December 1999; the default starting point.
  2. Eglise Monolithe de Saint-Emilion
    30m
    One of the largest underground churches in Europe, about 38 metres long, carved downward from a single mass of limestone.
  3. Chateau Soutard
    1h
    Grand Cru Classe with records to 1513; the chateau was built between 1741 and 1762, and around 1750 the family revived Roman row-planting in furrows cut into the limestone.
  4. Chateau Franc Mayne
    1h
    Grand Cru Classe a kilometre from the village; two hectares of former limestone quarry tunnels beneath it serve as the barrel cellar.
  5. Chateau Balestard La Tonnelle
    45m
    The only wine label carrying an authentic medieval poem, verse by Francois Villon; a fifteenth-century watchtower still stands in the vines; Capdemourlin family since 1923.
  6. Chateau Larmande
    45m
    Documented in town archives from 1585, one of the oldest estates in Saint-Emilion, and a Grand Cru Classe.
  7. Chateau de Ferrand
    1h
    Founded in 1702 and owned by only two families in its history; the Bich family of Bic pens bought it in 1978.
  8. Chateau Pindefleurs
    45m
    Estate tied to Antoine de Seze, mayor of Saint-Emilion in the early 1600s, whose descendant Romain de Seze defended Louis XVI at his trial; eighteen hectares, ninety percent Merlot.
  9. Chateau Fleur de Lisse
    45m
    Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse estate in the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru appellation, bought in 2015 by Patrick and Caroline Teycheney of Vignobles Jade.
  10. Libourne
    45m
    Bastide river port founded around 1268 to 1270 by the English knight Roger de Leyburn, whose name became Libourne; an arcaded central square on a grid plan.
  11. Chateau Cruzeau
    45m
    Twelve-hectare family property run by the Luquot family for five generations on the border of Saint-Emilion and Pomerol, in Libourne.
  12. Pomerol
    30m
    About 800 hectares, the smallest of the great Bordeaux appellations and the only one never classified; Petrus sits on its plateau of blue clay.
  13. Chateau de Sales
    1h
    Largest vineyard in Pomerol, about 47 hectares of vines in a 90-hectare estate around a Louis XIII chateau built in 1643; fourteen cousins took it over in 2017.
  14. Chatonnet Vineyards
    45m
    Chateau Haut Chaigneau at Neac in Lalande-de-Pomerol; the Chatonnet family bought the near-ruined vineyard around 1967 and rebuilt it.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

Meeting point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

Meeting point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

End point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

End point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

End point

These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.

Additional information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
  • Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
  • Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
  • Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
  • Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
  • One booking unlocks Bordeaux and Saint-Emilion on your account for good: unlimited routes and tours, no expiry, no subscription

Cancellation policy

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