The season of “Bordeaux primeurs” is April-May-June. This is when the big chateaux show the latest vintage (yes, just a few months old) to “the trade”. In April, merchants and “influencers” come to Bordeaux to taste.
Then over the coming months the wines are sold. But it is not until some two years later the buyers get the wine. Like financial “futures”.
But this is just a tiny part of the market, the 50 to 100 chateaux who’s wines sell for sometimes hundreds of euros. It’s a mistake to think that this is the only thing that counts in Bordeaux.
If you want to understand what Bordeaux really is, you need to go a little bit beyond that. (Otherwise, it’s like thinking that watches are only Rolex.) Yes, we will show you the splendour of the big chateaux on our wine tour, but we will also show you family-owned wineries that make equally excellent wines and often more inspiring and adventurous wines. We will show you the “left bank” focussing on cabernet sauvignon and the “right bank” with mainly merlot and cabernet franc, as well as the “middle”, the Entre deux Mers.
Bordeaux is much more than just the grand chateaux; much more exciting when you get a more complete view, as you will on our wine tour.
Join us on a fantastic wine tour to Bordeaux.
- Bordeaux, 29 September – 3 October, 2024
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PS: We have written an award-winning book on Bordeaux, and have been travelling there since 1986. Can you find a better guide and tour operator?
