Medoc Wine Tour Self Guided GPS Audio Guide from Bordeaux

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Fifth generation on the same Haut-Medoc gravel behind Pauillac, farming without herbicides and selling most of the wine straight from the cellar door.

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

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.

A Fifth Growth whose chateau sits on the Pauillac waterfront rather than out among the vines, with a modern visitor cellar on the quay.

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