Medoc Wine Tour Self Guided GPS Audio Guide from Bordeaux

Saint-Emilion, France
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Duration4h - 9h
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesChinese, English
Private tourOnly your group will participate

Overview

Drive the Médoc yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region. Pick your date and starting point, Bordeaux, Margaux or Pauillac, choose the châteaux you want from the eighteen mapped along the D2, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. The stories cover why this ground grows Cabernet: the gravel the Pyrenees sent down two rivers, the estuary that holds off the frost, the Dutch engineers who drained the marsh from 1599, the brokers who ranked the châteaux in 1855 without tasting a glass, and Vauban's fort guarding the water. No group, no schedule, no guide; stop for a tasting, take the Lamarque ferry across to Blaye, eat on the quay at Pauillac, replay anything. Everything downloads offline, so it keeps working out on the peninsula. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are paid at each château and most require a booking.

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
  • 18 mapped chateaux that welcome visitors, from Ludon-Medoc up to Saint-Yzans
  • Narrated stories on the 1855 classification, the gravel croupes, the Dutch who drained the marsh, the Chartrons merchants and Vauban’s Fort Medoc
  • GPS-triggered audio driving tour of the Medoc: stories play automatically at each location
  • Free content and audio updates for life
  • One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Tastings and chateau visit fees (paid directly at each estate)
  • Tasting appointments, which most Medoc chateaux require
  • 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)
  • Fort Medoc entry and the Lamarque-Blaye ferry fare

What to expect

  1. Chateau D'Agassac
    30m
    The oldest chateau in the Medoc, a moated medieval fortress turned Cru Bourgeois on the southern edge of the peninsula, twenty minutes from central Bordeaux.
  2. Chateau Paloumey
    30m
    A Haut-Medoc estate replanted from scratch in 1990 after decades of abandonment, now one of the most welcoming small cellar doors on the road north.
  3. Chateau Dauzac
    30m
    Fifth Growth of 1855 in Margaux, and the estate where Bordeaux mixture, the copper spray that saved Europe's vineyards from mildew, was first used in the 1880s.
  4. Chateau Siran
    30m
    A Margaux estate held by the same family since 1859, with a cellar built to survive flood and a collection of Sevres porcelain under the tasting room.
  5. Chateau Cantenac Brown
    30m
    A Third Growth in Tudor red brick, built by the Scottish painter John Lewis Brown, and one of the few Margaux classified growths with a full visitor programme.
  6. Chateau Haut Breton Larigaudiere
    30m
    A family estate on the Margaux plateau known for its table as much as its wine, where lunch in the chateau is part of the tasting.
  7. Chateau Citran
    30m
    A Cru Bourgeois in the quiet Haut-Medoc back country, on land held by the Donnissan family from the thirteenth century and rebuilt by Japanese owners in the 1990s.
  8. Chateau Malescasse
    30m
    A nineteenth-century Haut-Medoc estate on the gravel between Margaux and Saint-Julien, restored since 2012 and open for tastings on the terrace.
  9. Fort Medoc
    30m
    Vauban's earth-walled square fort of 1689, one third of the Verrou de l'estuaire that locked the Gironde against the English fleet, with the Blaye citadelle opposite.
  10. Chateau Lanessan
    30m
    Two hundred and fifty years in one family, with a Victorian stable block and carriage museum that survived because the estate refused to modernise.
  11. Chateau Teynac
    30m
    A small Saint-Julien property replanted in the 1990s, surrounded by classified growths and one of the few places in the commune that takes walk-in visitors.
  12. Chateau Hourtin-Ducasse
    30m
    Fifth generation on the same Haut-Medoc gravel behind Pauillac, farming without herbicides and selling most of the wine straight from the cellar door.
  13. Chateau Fontesteau Organic Vineyard
    30m
    A certified organic estate around a genuine thirteenth-century keep, with a lake, woodland and rooms in the chateau itself.
  14. Pauillac
    30m
    The capital of the Medoc: three First Growths inside one commune, and thirteen hundred metres of quay along the Gironde, the longest river frontage in the department.
  15. Chateau Grand-puy Ducasse
    30m
    A Fifth Growth whose chateau sits on the Pauillac waterfront rather than out among the vines, with a modern visitor cellar on the quay.
  16. Chateau Loudenne
    30m
    The pink chartreuse on the estuary bank, bought by the Gilbey brothers in 1875 and shipped straight to London from its own river quay.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

Meeting point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

Meeting point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

Meeting point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

End point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

End point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

End point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

End point

This is a self-guided tour and it begins automatically from the traveler's current location. These are just recommended starting points

Additional information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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