5 Destinations In France Famous For Wine

By: Shweta Tue, 12 May 2020 5:41:40

5 Destinations in France Famous For Wine

France is mostly the most favoured destination for the honeymooners and people who are in love with the concept of romancing around picturesque locations. From Paris, the city of live, to the nooks and corners of Champagne, France has gained popularity as a lovely country with unfalteringly familiar culture, café terraces and lace curtained bistros. The pleasure of travelling across France is in the well roundedness of the language, the place and the people which blends seamlessly to give you a very comfortable experience.

Apart from the high of the fluffy romance in the air, France offers another kind of high through its wine destinations. France has recently opened the gates of its wine tourismto the world. Here are 5 must visit wine destinations in France which should make it to your next travel itinerary:

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* Cité du Vin, Bordeaux

The French long struggled to come up with a worthwhile wine museum. This is half the reason why Cité du Vin was such a welcoming change. This grand building stands proudly by the Garonne River, taking wine into new realms of entertainment, rendering it enjoyable even for those who can’t tell a cabernet sauvignon from a dandelion and burdock. Across six floors, it’s a hi-tech romp of panache, insight and enormous inventiveness, grabbing you by all senses for an interactive waltz through wine and its attendant subjects: art, culture, agriculture, transport (look out for a terrific moving boat show), civilisation and sensuality. Particularly memorable is a banqueting chamber alive with holograms and a floor show tackling wine, food and festivity through the ages.

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* Château de Pierreclos, Pouilly-Fuissé, Burgundy

Burgundy is rife with châteaux, manors, abbeys and other testimonies to a past of temporal and spiritual prominence. But the region took early retirement from international affairs to play to its real strengths: eating, drinking and growing red in the face. The great buildings serve this purpose as well as they served the former one. Here you can enjoy fine wine, accommodation and the sense that the revolution which never quite got this far. The glorious gold-stone spot overlooks a ruffled landscape – hills, vines topped with forest, artfully placed farmsteads. Within, the medieval cellars, kitchens and salons are remarkable, the Pouilly-Fuissé and St Véran wines and the excellentB&B rooms.

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* Hameau du Vin, Romanèche-Thorins, Beaujolais

Georges Duboeuf is the seigneur of Beaujolais wines, a mix of French winemaker and New World entrepreneur. At the Hameau du Vin (“wine hamlet”) he welcomes tots, ageing wine buffs and all in between to what is really a wine theme park. Serious information about 2,000 years of wine is dressed in the liveliest clothes – videos, animations, theatrics, 3D cinema – and set alongside wonderful gardens, a little train, crazy golf, a brasserie like an old station buffet and much else besides.

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* Jean Becker, Zellenberg, Colmar, Alsace

At the hinge of the Vosges Mountains and Rhine plain, the Alsace wine route curls between castle-capped hills and half-timbered villages where Alsaciens seek refuge from their hectic history. The wines are outstanding, the welcome from multilingual Martine Becker warm and bracing, and the range of visitor possibilities wide. There are any number of tasting options on the venerable premises – including instruction in the matter with seven wines, foie gras and Munster cheese. Guided vineyard walks kick off, Picnics and Cookery classes may be arranged.

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* Château de Flaugergues, Montpellier

These 17th century folly and exquisite gardens are quaint as quaint can be. The wines are first-rate (go first for the Sommeliere Rouge), Comte Henri de Colbert’s family long-established, and their courtyard restaurant, Folia, a great spot for lunch. If you plan it meticulously, you will be able to enjoy the Estivales, conceivably France’s biggest and jolliest weekly wine festival.

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