To initiate themselves with tasting in a wine grower, to enjoy a dozen oysters in an oyster hut,to visit a castle, to climb the highest dune ofEurope, to stroll in a country house or to discover great sites UNESCO of Blaye, Bordeaux and Saint-Emilion… Welcome in the Gironde!
Local specialties
Ah that, you will taste in the Gironde! On theRoads of Vin de Bordeaux, our vine growers arealways ready to accommodate you in their wine storehouses, in all user-friendliness. With the producers of the network Welcome to the Farm,you will succumb to the delights of farm aperitif orof tasting snack, with tasting of foie gras, rillettesand duck breast, Lamb of Pauillac, Ox of Bazas,cider, honey, saffron… All the summer, theMarkets of Producers of country give youappointment for festive evenings around the local products of Gironde: asparagus of Blayais,lamprey, alose… and even caviar!
Still a small hunger? Direction the Basin ofArcachon to enjoy a dozen oysters in anoyster hut.
Major events and venues
The Great Site of the dune of Pilat is with theBasin of Arcachon what the Tower Eiffel is in Paris:Impossible to circumvent!!
St. Emilion: Coiled in its ECRIN of vines, the medieval city of St. Emilion preserved all the charmof its origins: stones with the reflections of gold,roofs to the Romance tiles, maze of lanes with unspoilable view on the vineyard around…
Headlight of Cordovan: Baptized “the king of theheadlights, the headlight of the kings”, Cordovan isthe oldest headlight of Europe.
