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

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!

1. 1

   Saint-Emilion

   45 min

   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. 2

   Eglise Monolithe de Saint-Emilion

   30 min

   One of the largest underground churches in Europe, about 38 metres long, carved downward from a single mass of limestone.

3. 3

   Chateau Soutard

   1 hour

   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. 4

   Chateau Franc Mayne

   1 hour

   Grand Cru Classe a kilometre from the village; two hectares of former limestone quarry tunnels beneath it serve as the barrel cellar.

5. 5

   Chateau Balestard La Tonnelle

   45 min

   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. 6

   Chateau Larmande

   45 min

   Documented in town archives from 1585, one of the oldest estates in Saint-Emilion, and a Grand Cru Classe.

7. 7

   Chateau de Ferrand

   1 hour

   Founded in 1702 and owned by only two families in its history; the Bich family of Bic pens bought it in 1978.

8. 8

   Chateau Pindefleurs

   45 min

   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. 9

   Chateau Fleur de Lisse

   45 min

   Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse estate in the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru appellation, bought in 2015 by Patrick and Caroline Teycheney of Vignobles Jade.

10. 10

    Libourne

    45 min

    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. 11

    Chateau Cruzeau

    45 min

    Twelve-hectare family property run by the Luquot family for five generations on the border of Saint-Emilion and Pomerol, in Libourne.

12. 12

    Pomerol

    30 min

    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. 13

    Chateau de Sales

    1 hour

    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. 14

    Chatonnet Vineyards

    45 min

    Chateau Haut Chaigneau at Neac in Lalande-de-Pomerol; the Chatonnet family bought the near-ruined vineyard around 1967 and rebuilt it.

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