Medoc Wine Tour Self Guided GPS Audio Guide from Bordeaux

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!

1. 1

   Chateau D'Agassac

   30 min

   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. 2

   Chateau Paloumey

   30 min

   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. 3

   Chateau Dauzac

   30 min

   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. 4

   Chateau Siran

   30 min

   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. 5

   Chateau Cantenac Brown

   30 min

   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. 6

   Chateau Haut Breton Larigaudiere

   30 min

   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. 7

   Chateau Citran

   30 min

   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. 8

   Chateau Malescasse

   30 min

   A nineteenth-century Haut-Medoc estate on the gravel between Margaux and Saint-Julien, restored since 2012 and open for tastings on the terrace.

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   Fort Medoc

   30 min

   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. 10

    Chateau Lanessan

    30 min

    Two hundred and fifty years in one family, with a Victorian stable block and carriage museum that survived because the estate refused to modernise.

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    Chateau Teynac

    30 min

    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. 12

    Chateau Hourtin-Ducasse

    30 min

    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. 13

    Chateau Fontesteau Organic Vineyard

    30 min

    A certified organic estate around a genuine thirteenth-century keep, with a lake, woodland and rooms in the chateau itself.

14. 14

    Pauillac

    30 min

    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. 15

    Chateau Grand-puy Ducasse

    30 min

    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. 16

    Chateau Loudenne

    30 min

    The pink chartreuse on the estuary bank, bought by the Gilbey brothers in 1875 and shipped straight to London from its own river quay.

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

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.