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Bordeaux: Cité du Vin After-Hours Wine Tasting with Snacks

1. Bordeaux: Cité du Vin After-Hours Wine Tasting with Snacks

Soak up the dramatic views across Bordeaux as you take part in an exclusive wine-tasting workshop in english at the iconic Cité du Vin Museum. Delve into Bordeaux's wine-making tradition with a sommelier as you sip wine, savor local cheeses and cold cuts, and admire the views from the belvedere. Arrive at Cité du Vin after the museum closes to the public and meet your sommelier. Make your way up to the iconic belvedere area and be greeted by the spectacular 360° views across Bordeaux from a height of 35 meters.  Marvel at the magnificent chandelier made out of 3,500 wine bottles that stretches overhead as your group gathers around the ten-meter-long oak counter. Then, your sommelier will begin the wine-tasting workshop and introduce you to Bordeaux's wine-making history. Get an in-depth view of Bordeaux's wine production and culture while indulging in four locally produced wines paired with cheeses and cold cuts. Savor selected wines from the East Bank, West Bank, and Entre-Deux-Mers areas, as well as a sparkling Bordeaux crémant. With your sommelier, train your sense of sight, smell, and taste to pick up on the subtle notes unique to each wine and area. Learn how to describe the sensations and even how to identify ingredients and production techniques. Cité du Vin tells the story of wine with immersive galleries and wine-tasting workshops. GetYourGuide is partnering with Cité du Vin to bring you a once-in-a-lifetime wine-tasting experience in the heart of France's wine country, showcasing Bordeaux's world-famous appellations and proud winemaking tradition.

La Cité du Vin Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket & Wine Tasting

2. La Cité du Vin Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket & Wine Tasting

Enjoy the standing itinerary of La Cité du Vin, covering 18 exhibits on the theme of wine. Skip the line to enter, and then spend around 3 hours making your way through the exhibits with the aid of a hand-held companion, a digital guide available in 8 languages. At the end of the tour, head to the 8th floor and its belvedere, where you'll have a 360-degree, panoramic view of Bordeaux and the surrounding area. You’ll also have the opportunity to enjoy a glass of wine at a tasting session, choosing from a regularly renewed selection of 15 world wines. After your visit you can browse the on-site boutique, and visit the wine cellar with a vast international selection, the restaurants (with one on the 7th floor offering a panoramic view) and also the reading room.

Bordeaux: Les Bassins des Lumières Immersive Exhibition

3. Bordeaux: Les Bassins des Lumières Immersive Exhibition

Discover exhibitions that combine cutting-edge technology and artistic creation with tickets to an immersive experience at Bassin des Lumières in the center of Bordeaux. Explore the largest digital art center in the world located in a Second World War German submarine base. Enter Les Bassins des Lumières, a place filled with history, which was a submarine base dating from the Second World War before being transformed into a space dedicated to digital art. Explore 6 spaces, including The Cube which highlights artists who specialize in immersive art. Feast your eyes on contemporary works in this soundproofed and insulated area. Witness masterpieces from around the world leap out of their frames, transforming into experiential projections. Get access to 4 different 110-meter-long pools of water with 90 video projectors at Les Bassins des Lumières, fittingly translated as “the pools of light”. Walk amongst dazzling colors, observe reflections in the water, and make out a path between light and shadow. Live an experience that will appeal to your senses and emotions. Marvel at the spectacular program developed through innovative technology, catering to audiences of all backgrounds.

Bordeaux: Wine and Trade Museum Entry Ticket & Wine Tasting

4. Bordeaux: Wine and Trade Museum Entry Ticket & Wine Tasting

Pre-book your entry ticket to Bordeaux’s Wine and Trade Museum and enjoy the added perks of a presentation of the vineyard and a wine tasting of two wines paired with local snacks. Receive a paper guidebook for your self-guided exploration of the cellars. The Bordeaux Wine and Trade Museum pays tribute to the great wine merchants and the rich winemaking history of Bordeaux. Set in the building of Louis XV's royal broker, you’ll discover three centuries of the history and fame of Bordeaux’s great wines. The vaulted cellars, built around 1720, retrace the work of the coopers and the maturing of wine in barrels in the tradition of the wine merchants of the 19th century. With an included paper guide, you’ll get to go on a self-guided walk through two cellars. At the end of your visit, you can attend a presentation on the Bordeaux vineyards and learn about the notions of grape varieties, appellations d'origine contrôlée, terroir, and more. Alongside your commented wine tasting with in-house selected local wines, you can taste raisins dorés (coated raisins) and canelés de Bordeaux (small French pastry flavored with rum). Before the end of your visit, you can savor more of the wines in the wine cellar (costs not included).

From Bordeaux: Lascaux and Dordogne Valley Private Tour

5. From Bordeaux: Lascaux and Dordogne Valley Private Tour

See the famous prehistoric cave paintings and explore the Dordogne region with a private English-speaking driver-guide. Depart from Bordeaux, and drive about two hours east, into the heart of the Dordogne. The first visit is to the Grotte de Rouffignac, the cave of 1000 mammoths. For this visit you'll tale a ride on a small electric train deep into the cave to see some phenomenal drawings of horses, aurochs, bison, horned sheep and mammoths. Then head to Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where the first five skeletons of Cro-Magnon, the earliest known examples of homo sapiens were found. This is a good place to stop for a quick lunch. Next, drive to Lascaux to see the incredible new Lascaux international center for cave art, a truly impressive place.

Bordeaux: Private Guided Walking Tour & Cite du Vin

6. Bordeaux: Private Guided Walking Tour & Cite du Vin

Join me as we venture together inside the amazing history of Bordeaux: a City that I love so much! Let us discover why it was called the sleeping beauty and share stories of how beautiful Life is in this city! and of course, we end the tour with a visit to Cité du Vin: Bordeaux's universal wine museusm, where I will explain the amazing history of this building and the idea behind the project. We will also check the wonderful Wine Cellar and the boutique! we will tour the gardens of the Cité du Vin and see how it fits well with its neighborhood. Please note that this tour does not include tickets to visit the permanent exhibition of the Cite du Vin. If you would like to visit the exhibition, you will have to purchase the tickets there. I promise you will have a great time during my tour! Looking forward to seeing you!

Good Time in Bord'Eau

7. Good Time in Bord'Eau

Enjoy the largest digital arts centre in the world, the Bassin des Lumières, presenting monumental immersive digital exhibitions, dedicated to major artists in the history of art to contemporary art. Explore the city of Bordeaux from the river side, keeping cool and relax in a exceptional wood boat. The cruise experience with original vue points for incredible landscapes will be accompanied by a wine aperitif. Experiment best meats in the world in a bistronomic establishment with convival mood, precursor restaurant of the matured meat in Bordeaux.

Discover Cité du Vin and ride for free

8. Discover Cité du Vin and ride for free

eDOG is a 100% local rental service offering through an application the possibility to rent electric motor scooter all around Bordeaux. It is a new way to visit and to transport yourself within the great city. One of Bordeaux’s most iconic sites, Cité du Vin is both a museum dedicated to the cultural heritage of wine and a lively space with a range of gastronomic activities, and can be enjoyed alone, with friends or with family. During a holiday or weekend visit to the Bordeaux region, a trip to Cité du Vin is a must! Want to find out more? Take a look at our guide!

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This museum was recommended to me by several people, and I entirely agree that it's worth the time and money - all the better if you stroll down the river from downtown Bordeaux to get there. It's very interactive and tech-heavy in accessing the various exhibits, so if that's not for you, be warned. (This was the only negative review I heard from anyone who's been.) But if you're ready to use the provided virtual tour aspects and headset, there's a ton to take in and learn from.

The smell stations were amazing. Loved the relaxing exhibit on wine and love. The best part was wine sample on top floor with beautiful view of Bordeaux. Since we were on a cruise, the staff was able to print, but I couldn’t open and staff had difficulty because of non secure wifi.

So much to see, so little time ... You can spend the whole day here. Interactive, fun, beautiful inside and out. You can smell, touch, hear, see. Interesting for all ages. Loved it. Great value for the buck. I just wish I had arrived earlier.

Assimilating information about wine production to international trade in old times in the most modern manner. Wine tasting on the top floor is an amazing experience from where the whole of Bordeaux may be seen.

Easy to spend a full day here. Many interesting exhibits about history and culture around wine.