Bordeaux Harvest Tour: Experience Bordeaux in Harvest time
The Bordeaux Harvest Tour: get ready for an unforgettable experience
The Bordeaux Harvest Tour may well be the most spectacular tour we offer, with meals as exceptional as your visits.
The most exciting time in Bordeaux is harvest time. You can sense the anticipation in the air.
Can you believe that you will see and taste all five First Growths and Superior First Growth Chateau d’Yquem…
2020 Bordeaux Harvest Tours
→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour I (September 7 – Sept 12, 2020)
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→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour II (September 21 – Sept 26, 2020)
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→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour III (October 5 – October 10, 2020)
Last room available: just one double room Ask the full itinerary today!
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2021 Bordeaux Harvest Tours
→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour I (September 6 – Sept 11, 2021)
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→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour II (September 20 – Sept 25, 2021)
Under option Check out tours with availabilities here
→The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour III (October 4 – October 9, 2021)
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- 6 days, 5 nights
- All-inclusive tour rate: € 5995 (per person, double or twin occupancy; one single room available)
- Exclusive touring: limited to six double/twin rooms and one single
- Carefree and truly effortless touring in Bordeaux: We take care of everything, really everything
- Due to the exclusive nature of these tours, this program will sell out
- Your tour hosts and Bordeaux Wine and Culinary Experts:
- Ronald Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master, Bordeaux Specialist
- Margaret Rens, M. Sc., Wine Master, Culinary Expert.
Get your full Itinerary of the 2021 Bordeaux Harvest Tour here today!
Our 2022 Bordeaux Harvest Tours
→ Planning for 2022? Get your Itinerary as soon as it is released!
(Ask to be put on the invitation list for our 2022 Harvest Tours) – contact us today!
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The Bordeaux Harvest Tour: Experience the best of Bordeaux in Harvest time
On this acclaimed Bordeaux Harvest Tour you’ll have the opportunity of visiting and tasting at leading Chateaux of the Medoc, Saint Emilion and Pomerol that normally are closed to the public.
Be among the first to taste the latest vintage and enjoy our personal selection of library wines.
On our Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour you taste more wines then on any other wine tour.
We guarantee you will see and taste all five First Growths of the 1855 classification. And many of them are older vintages!
But there is more as we visit other specifically selected outperforming chateaux of both Left Bank and Right Bank.
This unique tour for food and wine lovers combines the best wines of Bordeaux with a fun cooking class and exclusive gourmet meals.
Education about Bordeaux, its history and its wines and wine making
Experience Bordeaux in Harvest time
The Bordeaux Harvest Tour starts with a fun masterclass on Bordeaux wine tasting.
You’ll learn all about grape varieties, terroir, appellations, classifications, tasting, decanting and much more.
You’ll become more familiar and knowledgeable about Bordeaux wines.
All in a fun and down-to-earth and friendly atmosphere in the company of fellow wine lovers.
You’ll learn about Left Bank and Right Bank and understand the difference between them. In short, you’ll expand your Bordeaux wine knowledge while enjoying great food and great wine.
Enough extraordinary wine experiences to make your head spin!
Enjoy a truly culinary Bordeaux experience
Mouton Rothschild, one of the Five First Growths you will see and taste on the Bordeaux Harvest Tour
As part of a small, select group we can open doors for you that remain closed for others.
Can you believe that you’ll indulge in a daily lunch at a Bordeaux Chateau?
And there is more: for dinner we take you to the most renowned restaurants of the area, including Bordeaux’s most elegant Michelin-starred restaurant.
And if that’s not enough, you will sample your way around one of the oldest regional open-air food markets while foraging ingredients.
In the spacious kitchen of Chateau Coulon Laurensac you will experience a concise cooking class while enjoying some great Bordeaux wines.
You’ll taste the classical wines of both Saint Emilion and Medoc and have an Armagnac tasting of older vintages, some of them over 40 years old!
This Bordeaux Harvest Tour is both a culinary and a wine experience
Great food, great wine and great fun with great people!
Grand Cru wines with all meals
The cooking class is an incredible wine-soaked team-building experience where we all have so much fun that it remains one of the unbeatable highlights on our tours.
Of course you will taste Grand Cru wines with all meals.
And to round it all off you’ll be invited into the private dining room of our own 18th century Château Coulon Laurensac for a Farewell dinner like you’ve never experienced before.
Our private chef will prepare another remarkable meal for us that we will match by an impressive succession of library wines that have been ageing in our cellar.
Including Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Superior First Growth Chateau d’Yquem of over 20 years old!
We’ll light the candles in our dining room and share another delicious meal to conclude this amazing experience.
A cooking class followed by a lunch on the patio of Chateau Coulon Laurensac is an unforgettable experience
Stay at our private Chateau
Stay at our private Chateau on the Bordeaux Harvest Tour
During your Bordeaux wine tour with the Bordeaux Wine Experience you’ll stay at our beautiful Chateau Coulon Laurensac.
Coulon Laurensac is nested on the riverbanks of the Garonne River, just outside Bordeaux.
This enchanting Château (built in 1724!) is the perfect starting point for tours in all the famous wine regions of the Bordeaux area.
No hotel-hopping on our tours!
All suites combine old-world charm with modern amenities like air-conditioning.
No two rooms are alike and they all have their own character.
Great value and even more fun!
Great value
You may think costs are high at first but our guests feel it’s a bargain for the tour, meals and wines tasted.
Let alone the camaraderie and the great fun.
Or in the words of a previous guests:
“The experience, knowledge friendliness and generosity of Margaret and Ronald has no price…
We will be back when and if we can get a place on this fantastic adventure.”
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A Farewell dinner like you’ve never experienced before..
10 Excellent reasons to join the Bordeaux Harvest Tour
Have the ultimate Chateau Experience
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- Carefree and truly effortless travel in Bordeaux: We take care of everything, really everything!
- See and taste all 5 First Growths and Château d’Yquem!
- Grand Cru wines with all meals (except breakfast…)!
- Private gourmet meals at Bordeaux Chateaux and in a famous Michelin-starred restaurant!
- Superb food & wines and great fun in a small group!
- Expert (and humorous) guidance by Bordeaux Specialist Ronald Rens!
- An entertaining concise cooking class!
- Air-conditioned accommodation at our 18th century chateau!
- Air-conditioned, luxury motor coach transportation throughout the tour!
- Grand Cru Farewell Dinner with all Grand Cru wines (including Margaux, Lafite Rothschild + Superior First Growth Yquem of over 20 years old!).
“For those of you who think that this is a tour for wine snobs, or for snobs or pretentious people in general, think again.
This tour was somehow the epitome of down to earth – from our terrific tour mates to the anti-snob Rens, who literally welcome you into their home as family. Read their website, visit their Facebook page and if all it seems to good to be real, just wait… the EXPERIENCE is even better.”Comment from Tripadvisor
With Ronald you will taste more Classified Growths than on any other Bordeaux Wine Tour
We take care of everything, really everything
Once your Bordeaux Wine Tour begins you can relax knowing that the tour rate covers absolutely everything during your trip with us.
Everything means really everything: guides, accommodations, all meals but one, all wines, excursions, all entrance fees, tasting fees, tips, taxes and gratuities.
Tipping is neither required nor expected.
You’ll only need to open your wallet when you go off exploring on your own, have one meal on your free night in Bordeaux or decide to buy souvenirs or wine to ship home.
*Please note:
Itinerary subject to change, every effort will be made to keep the itinerary as close as possible to what appeared here; however the final itinerary may vary due to wine chateaux schedules, availabilities and other factors beyond our control.
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Caryn and Steve S, FL, USA (The Bordeaux Grand Cru Harvest Tour)