Beautiful location and fantastic, Bordeaux-focused wine selection. Some seriously special wines…read moreother Coravin list. That said, it's kind of weird that the place is set up with "serve yourself" stations but they don't work, so you have to order everything. Service was friendly and helpful, however. Pricing is a bit on the high side compared to other nearby wine bars, but the selection is great and they do allow smaller pours if you don't want to break the bank. Place was dead during an afternoon visit, but that's likely on us -- I'm sure it's much livelier and more fun in the evening.

If you appreciate fine wine then you have to visit this shop in downtown Bordeaux. I go every time…read moreI visit Bordeaux, about yearly. You can purchase wine tastings in addition to buying bottles. What sets Thai place apaet is they open $500-$2000 bottles for tastings!!! I doubt I will ever buy a $2000 bottle but I love to experience a tasting for around $25. They also offer organized tasting events. You gotta check them out!

Nice place to try a lot of different wines by the glass, but honestly most of it was from pretty…read moreaverage producers (there are other wine bars in Bordeaux that have much more special stuff). Beautiful building and friendly service, though. Nice spot to rest up during a day of walking around the city, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it a destination.

What a great little find. The interior of this wine bar seemed to be a little like a hotel lobby,…read morebut it was comfortable with plenty of seating. We were able to be seated immediately. The wine prices are fantastic here and there's a nice variety of local wines to try. My guest and I conducted a mini tasting flight. The place was pretty crowded and looked to be a good place to grab wine and catch up with friends. Service was friendly and it was easy to order and pay despite the language barrier. Definitely a must stop on your trip to Bordeaux.

Excellent place to taste regional wines. Half-full glass sizes for great price. I wish I could come…read morehere more often!

Great place to enjoy some local wines. Very reasonable prices. You can also order half glasses. For…read morefour half glasses, we spent about 10 euros. The employee was very friendly and fun to chat with.

Fredric our guide is exceptional. He grew up in the region and knows all the people. Due to his…read morepersonal connections our tour was amazing. He is knowledgeable, responsible and friendly with a great sense of humor.

We had the absolute best time touring Bordeaux and St. Emilion with Frederic. He picked us up, took…read morecare of every detail, shared his wealth of knowledge and was such a fun and charming guide. The location for our lunch was simply magical and added to an already perfect day! We really couldn't have been happier and are looking forward to coming back to tour more wineries with Frederic and Rendez-vous Chateau Tours! Could not recommend Rendez-vous Chateau tours more!

I took a wine blending workshop at this location. I absolutely enjoyed this experience very much. I…read morelearned so much! Pierre and Geoffroy are the perfect blend of personal, approachable, and professional. Their passion for the art and science of viticulture is evident and engaging. There are some specialty items and nice wines (better than at the supermarket!) to purchase, and yet there was no pressure to do so. So if you just want to take the workshop, it's fine. Perfect! Also, as a gay man traveling by myself for work, I have occasionally experienced homophobia from hosts--but not here! They were fun and accepting. I'm so happy I chose this local experience.

From the owner: Cave à vins & dégustations Le Pied à Terre vous propose une…read moresélection de vins de France et du monde mais aussi la possibilité de participer à nos ateliers dégustation à thème ou encore créer votre propre atelier sur mesure en privatisant notre cave.

We were looking for a place within the Bordeaux city center where we could taste wine. I assumed…read morethere would be tons of tasting rooms around town, but not so much. The tourism office pointed us to Cousin & Compagnie, which offered 5 tastes for 15 euros (compare THAT to what you pay in Napa!). Since it's a wine store, we were given a variety of labels from different areas. The store is the oldest independent wine seller in Bordeaux. We learned about each of the unique wines. Pricing was very reasonable, we met some German & Irish fellow travelers. A gem of a place and nice afternoon.

We were on way back to St. Jean de Luz, and definitely wanted to take back some good Bordeaux wine…read morewith us. The staff here speak very good English and were able to help us select a few bottles that would suit our taste! They were spot on too! Great service and very good wine.

Best wine trip you can take in all of Bordeaux! John was our personal guide and was a treat. Lunch…read moreand all tastings were included in our package. He personally recommended all of the restaurants, and they were fantastic. If you don't use him for a personal tour, contact him for a self guided tour, the restaurant recommendations alone will be worth it!

We used John and Gourmet Touring to recently take care of pretty much everything on our recent trip…read moreto Bordeaux and it all worked out wonderfully. As we were planning all of our other details on the other parts of our trip we wanted to fire and forget, though now we'll likely be back for a more customized trip in the future. We went with the 3 day 2 night to-go package, and had them help book our train tickets as well, also we went with a driver (less due to drinking and more to having no sense of the area and wanting to not have to think about much). Overall I'm not sure we'd do anything different. Upon arrival our driver was waiting at the train station and great conversation from our ride from the train station to Bordeaux. She started off on a good note, affirming she liked out California Cabernet, she wasn't as knowledgeable on others but said we do good Cabernet. The ride to downtown we got a good general overview of the city, tips on things to go see and do, and a great tip for a cheap but great wine bar, which was indeed that having glasses from 2 euros up. After that we had most of our afternoon and evening free to ourselves to check out the town. The next morning started promptly at 9am with John picking us up at our place. The day was to be spent on the right bank. We started with a tasting at a negotiant with a small tour, followed by a more in depth tasting and overview of Bordeaux. It turned out to be great in terms of education and conversation giving us a great foundation to build upon our knowledge of Bordeaux for the rest of the trip. The tasting included a total of 4 wines, we had 2 reds one from left bank on from right, then 2 whites, one dry one sweet. This proved to be the largest tasting of the trip, as we discovered the tasting experience in Bordeaux is very different than the US. Essentially they're all accompanied with a tour, and at a Chateau you're generally going to taste 1 wine as that's all they make, some may hit two. From there we made our way to lunch, which we'd upgraded to lunch with wine at a Chateau. The meal at the Chateau proved to be absolutely excellent, a 3 course meal that proved to be filling but not too over the top. With a bit of time on our drive over to the Chateau, and a good leisurely lunch we had plenty of time to learn quite a bit more, both about John and his background, but especially around the wine - including such things as small detours to check out the only 2 wineries that have very rocky soil that are in St. Emilion and not in Pomeral where it's more common. From lunch we had a tour in St. Emilion of the monolithic church, before continuing on to our Chateau for a tour and tasting for the day. This tasting was a bit different than the earlier one as we got to tour much more of the Chateau, talked about the growing process there, and generally spent a good bit of time on the wine making process. We ended our afternoon getting dropped back off with a couple of hours until our dinner reservations. Dinner was a great pre arranged meal... A wonderful 3 course meal which while we passed on the Michellin star upgrade we were not disappointed at all. The food quality was amazing with great presentation and taste, and then the level of service matched it. Starting on the second day we only had one chateau for the day, which we were spending on the left bank. The tasting experience again included a great detailed tour of the grounds. The biggest surprise of it was that our tasting location got bumped from the usual spot to a section of the barrel room as James Suckling had called 5 minutes before to drop into taste, which at least to us probably made the wines taste a bit better. After a great tasting an informative session we had a good bit of time to squeeze in more sights and lunch before our train departed. Again this was especially informative as John made sure to get us sights of many of the more famous Chateaus, some more unique ones, and other picturesque ones. Lunch to no surprise of ours was again great, in some ways a bit simpler than previous days but still great quality at a great spot. All in all we wouldn't have done it any other way, except for maybe going for 4-5 days instead of 3. Next time we may end up on a more customized itinerary, but being our first in Bordeaux this worked out wonderfully to get a great overview, translate our knowledge of California wine to how it maps to Bordeaux, and know where we can continue to dig in experiencing more of it (including some recommendations on wines, with now plans to follow up and order some from the negotiant we originally tasted with). I can completely see where the self driving option is absolutely feasible if you're tight on the cash, but the guided experience to capture minutes of extra knowledge for us felt completely worth it.