The Bordeaux Wine Experience 2009 Bordeaux Wine Tour Schedule online!
We received many inquiries about our 2009 Wine Tour Schedule. Understandably many of you are planning far ahead.
We proudly present the following Tours and dates for 2009:

§         The Grand Tour of Bordeaux 2009
(May 25 - May 30, 2009 and
July 6 - July 11, 2009 and
August 31 - September 5, 2009

§         The Bordeaux Harvest Tour 2009
(September 21– September 26, 2009)

These Tours are 6 days, 5 nights. Special offer: If you book now (in 2008), we will give you the 2008 prices for the 2009 tours. (Click here for the Itineraries). Newsletter readers are the first to be informed. These tours have just recently been put online on our website.
People that join our tours are wine lovers and wine drinkers and usually this is their first trip to the Bordeaux region. They want lo learn about wine and wine tasting, and what better place to start than in Bordeaux, the world’s most famous wine region. I am convinced you will grow to love our region as we do if you join us on one of our tours.

Remember we want to keep things personal. That’s why we only organize tours for small groups and tailor made trips. A small group from our perspective is a maximum of ten people. That’s just you and four other couples! All our tours will start as of one couple.
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The Bordeaux Harvest Experience 2008
September 22– September 27, 2008 (still some spots available!)

This September we offer you a unique wine tour: The Bordeaux Harvest Experience. This tour is really without equal as everything in and around Bordeaux just buzzes with action and anticipation. Bordeaux, never very open to visitors, closes like an oyster at harvest time. Fortunately we can get you into chateaux that usually keep their gates firmly locked to visitors, especially during harvest.
You will visit and taste at First Growths Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Haut Brion and many others! This unparalleled wine tour will include a real pickers lunch at a Classified Growth Chateau.

In the words of some of our guests of last year’s Harvest Experience: We came with very high expectations and The Bordeaux Wine Experience surpassed everything we hoped for. The positive experiences were endless. It was exciting, adventures and most educational. Our accommodations were excellent. Ronald, our trip leader + wine guru was tremendous: knowledgeable, witty, humorous and very articulate. In all, it was a perfect experience that will have long legs, - to be remembered forever… Jack and Jane Novick, Branford, CT, USA (in the gardens of Chateau de Malle)

The Bordeaux Harvest Tour: More than wine alone!
This tour offers more than wine alone, it’s a culinary experience as well. You’ll dine in a Michellin rated restaurant and you’ll experience two formal lunches in the dining rooms of Classified Growth Chateaux. You’ll see spectacular art collections and beautiful gardens. We will go and see the private gardens of two different Grand Cru’s and we will be invited into First Growth Mouton Rothschild’s unique museum.

This Bordeaux HarvestTour is 6 days, 5 nights. (Click here for the Itinerary).
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Not “just” Bordeaux Wine Tours: Ronald is now officially a Culinary Travel Specialist

Guests, who toured the Bordeaux wine region with Ronald all agree that he is very knowledgeable. But now it has become official: Ronald has been acknowledged as a Western European Culinary Travel Specialist by ASTA, The American Society of Travel Agents. This spring The Bordeaux Wine Experience attended the ASTA’s International Destination Expo (IDE) in Lyon. All events, seminars and educational courses took place at the Lyon Convention Center where we had a booth at the trade show.
At this International Destination Expo Ronald completed a full course in Western European Culinary Travel and was acknowledged as a Western European Culinary Travel Specialist by The American Society of Travel Agents.
The Bordeaux Wine Experience is looking forward to working with travel agents from all over the world to communicate our beautiful wine region and our exciting wine tours.

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The June Bordeaux Grand Cru Wine Tour a great success!

As we are getting ready for next weeks Grand Cru Tour we are also recuperating from last weeks tour. June’s Bordeaux Grand Cru Tour has just come to an end. I am sure that even our guests have been experiencing some withdrawal. On the tour, which had been sold out for a long time, we toured with a mixed group: three couples from the USA (Florida, California and Ohio) and two couples from Dublin, Ireland. In the words of our Irish guests: “The Irish contingent added to the «blend»”. You can read all the guest comments by clicking here. We tasted a record number of 74 wines of which 49 were Classified Growths! And we had one Irish Coffee…

As you can see, when you tour with The Bordeaux Wine Experience, you taste more Classified Growths than on any other Bordeaux wine tour!
We had tastings at First Growths like Mouton, Yquem, Margaux and Haut Brion; Second Growths like Pichon Baron, Léoville Baron and Léoville Las Cazes and many many more.
But there was more than “just” the wine. We actually were invited into chateaux, saw art collections and visited unique and private gardens. We had meals at restaurants varying from typical local cuisine to Michelin-rated tables and of course lived the very special experience of eating in the private dining rooms of some wonderful Bordeaux Chateaux. So you see, it’s not just a wine tour but a real Bordeaux Wine Experience!
A very special moment for me was when the group thanked me at the Farewell dinner with a very special gift. Not one, but two bottles of wine were handed over to me: A “very expensive” rosé and a delightful, outperforming Third Growth from the Margaux appellation: Château Palmer. Thank you again for this much appreciated gift and thank you, members of “the loud group“, for your confidence in touring with us.

The “harvest” of the Farewell dinner at Chateau Coulon Laurensac

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 Bordeaux Wine Tours: A health benifit…

Our guests on our Bordeaux Wine Tours are totally aware of the positive effect Bordeaux wine has on your health. A recent studie found another benefit:People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called rheumatoid arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.

People who had a moderate alcohol consumption were 40 and 45 percent less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis compared with people who did not drink or drank only occasionally, it found.

Some happy users of the product:  Among those who had a high consumption, the risk was reduced by 50 and 55 percent respectively. Most surprising was that the biggest benefits were seen among smokers with a genetic profile known to make them vulnerable to the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis affects between 0.5 and one percent of people, according to figures for the industrialised world. It happens when the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation and damage to the cartilage and bone. A mixture of environmental factors, especially smoking, and genetic heritage are the deemed causes of the disease.  The authors, led by Henrik Kaellberg of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, note previous research that suggests alcohol interferes with inflammatory processes that trigger heart disease. Doctors advising patients about the disease say they should urge smokers to kick tobacco, but not necessarily to stop consumption of alcohol in moderate quantities. High consumption of alcohol, while apparently protective for rheumatoid arthritis, is itself linked with many other health problems. The paper appears in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, a specialist journal published by the British Medical Association (BMA). Some happy users of the product in 2007…

The healing product is tasted in ample quantities on The Bordeaux Wine Experience’s  famous Bordeaux Wine Tours.

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Ronald

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 The Bordeaux First Growths 2007, my verdict (last episode)

Chateau Haut Brion

Early May, to complete the First Growths, we tasted at Chateau Haut Brion. Laetitia Dubos led us into the tasting room. Here we started our tasting with another property: the La Mission Haut-Brion (both their first and second wines).
We continued with the second and the first wine of Chateau Haut Brion. At these tastings you serve the wines in the opposite order to when you drink them with a meal. At a dinner party you would start with the whites and then go on to red. At wine tastings the whites are tasted after the reds. We therefore continued our tasting with the delicious white wine: Chateau Laville Haut-Brion and the very impressive Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc, a very rare wine as there are only 2,8 ha (6.9 acres) of whites at Haut Brion.

Red Wines

La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion (16.5 points), the second wine of La Mission Haut Brion)
A nice purple color, somewhat closed on the nose. Combines hints of laurel with a good acidity and good fruit tones.

Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion (18 points)
Medium purple color. More open on the nose than La Chapelle with hints of coffee, tobacco and leather. It’s beautiful balance combines velvety (cherry) fruit tones with a surprising freshness. Very long finish.

Le Clarence de Haut Brion (17 points), the second wine of Chateau Haut Brion (the name has changed; it used to be called Bahans Haut Brion)
Medium purple color. Beautiful complex nose with lots and lots of fruit and hints of strawberries and cherries. Licorice and velvety round tannins.

Chateau Haut-Brion (18.5 points)
A dense purple color. Impressive complex nose with spicy, smoky and cherry aromas. Beautiful soft tannins .A long staying wine with a very good balance.

White wines