Our tour starts in Burgundy. The word recalls a very special wine region and a very special wine. It makes us think of gently rolling hills. Vineyards as far as the eye can see. Winding country roads, small rural villages, unique wines, and excellent French gastronomy. It is a small region, at least the heart of the region, the Côte d’Or, where we will be staying. Here, the small, archetypal French villages lie like a string of pearls along the country road in a gently rolling landscape with vineyards and forests: Gevrey-Chambertin, Fixin, Pommard, Meursault, Vosne-Romanée, Puligny-Montrachet and so on. Even the largest town, Beaune, where we stay, has a distinct small-town feel to it. It is only a ten-minute walk from the main square in the centre and you are out in the vineyards.
After Burgundy we continue south to the Rhône Valley. The Rhône is a region in constant motion today. New things are happening all the time. New producers are constantly coming into the spotlight. Now and then, growers leave a cooperative and start making wine independently. New appellations are created. This is an exciting development for a region that has long been associated with simple and inexpensive wines. This has changed fundamentally. Not everything is expensive, of course, but there are big stars here today whose wines command high prices as well as extraordinary value-for-money wines. The Rhône Valley is an exciting region to follow today. If you like grapes like grenache, syrah and cinsault, there is no better place. We get to know some of these exciting producers, enjoy Provençal meals, learn French history in the form of the Papal Palace, and experience a beautiful landscape.
Come and discover French wine and food in Burgundy and the Rhone Valley on this luxurious wine tour with BKWine, one of the world’s leading wine tour operators (*).
This tour is currently fully booked. Why not join us instead on our new five-day Bordeaux tour that we have just added due to the high demand?
- The Grand French Wine tour to Burgundy and the Rhône Valley, 17-25 September, 2025
(*) And the only one who has authored 13 award-winning wine books.
