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!
Saint-Emilion, France
Medieval hill town at the centre of the Jurisdiction, the first vineyard landscape ever listed by UNESCO, in December 1999; the default starting point.
Place du Marche, Saint-Emilion, France
One of the largest underground churches in Europe, about 38 metres long, carved downward from a single mass of limestone.
1 Lieu Dit Soutard, Bp4, Saint-Emilion, France
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.
1313 route de Libourne, Saint-Emilion, France
Grand Cru Classe a kilometre from the village; two hectares of former limestone quarry tunnels beneath it serve as the barrel cellar.
Chem. de Balestard, Saint-Emilion, France
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.
1 Lieu Dit Larmande, Saint-Emilion, France
Documented in town archives from 1585, one of the oldest estates in Saint-Emilion, and a Grand Cru Classe.
Allee de Saint-Poly, Saint-Hippolyte, Saint-Emilion, France
Founded in 1702 and owned by only two families in its history; the Bich family of Bic pens bought it in 1978.
1 Pin de Fleur -Est, Pin de Fleur -Est, Saint-Emilion, France
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.
Lieu Dit Gaillard, Saint-Hippolyte, France
Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse estate in the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru appellation, bought in 2015 by Patrick and Caroline Teycheney of Vignobles Jade.
Libourne, France
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.
152 avenue de l'Epinette, Libourne, France
Twelve-hectare family property run by the Luquot family for five generations on the border of Saint-Emilion and Pomerol, in Libourne.
Pomerol, France
About 800 hectares, the smallest of the great Bordeaux appellations and the only one never classified; Petrus sits on its plateau of blue clay.
11 chemin de Sales, Libourne, France
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.
Chateau Haut-Chaigneau, Chemin Des Trois Bois, Neac, France
Chateau Haut Chaigneau at Neac in Lalande-de-Pomerol; the Chatonnet family bought the near-ruined vineyard around 1967 and rebuilt it.
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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