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Specializing in wine tours, Bastien, a certified driver and guide, accompanies you in his comfortable vehicle to discover the Bordeaux terroir. You will travel along roads adorned with magnificent castles and estates, visit selected locations of exceptional quality, and participate in delightful tastings. Throughout the journey, as your private guide, Bastien will provide commentary in French or English. You will openly discuss the region and the world of wine with him. Let's discover here incredible classified estates with an outstanding architecture.

A candlelit evening making quiche and butter, tasting cheeses with wines, and trying an aroma quiz. The only official Emily in Paris Netflix series apéro experience in Paris.

Love white wine? Discover some of the world’s best sauvignon blanc wines when you visit the Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé appellations in the Loire Valley—and enjoy a personalized, flexible way to explore—on this small-group, full-day tour. Meet your guide in the morning, hop aboard your air-conditioned vehicle, and visit a minimum of four wineries for tours and tastings. You’ll also stop for a gourmet lunch en route (own expense), and will even visit a local goat farm.

Discover the wine treasures of your estate on an immersive tour in the cellar. Hosted by Vincent or Laurent, you will explore the fascinating history of the estate before enjoying a tasting of selected cuvées, accompanied by delicious local cold cuts and cheeses. Enjoy this unique experience in the exceptional setting of the medieval village of Aiguèze, where every sip and bite will plunge you into the richness of your land.

Explore the captivating vineyards of Saint-Emilion on a half-day electric bike tour. Begin your adventure as you gather in Bordeaux and are transported to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Saint-Emilion. Enjoy a guided visit through the medieval village, followed by a scenic ride through picturesque vineyards, showcasing renowned chateaux. Conclude your tour with an exclusive visit to a Grand Cru Classé winery, where you’ll discover traditional wine-making techniques and indulge in a tasting of exquisite wines paired with a delightful platter of French delicacies. - Half-day electric bike tour through the vineyards of Saint-Emilion - Guided visit to the medieval village, a UNESCO World Heritage site - Visit one prestigious chateaux and learn about traditional wine-making (4 wines tasted) - Enjoy a tasting paired with a platter of local French products

Experience the heart of the French Renaissance through three iconic châteaux and authentic Loire Valley wine in one unforgettable day. Step inside Château de Blois, where four architectural styles blend into one royal residence. Here, Joan of Arc received her blessing before her campaign. Then visit Ambacia Winery, founded in 1463. Explore centuries-old cellars, discover traditional winemaking methods, and enjoy a guided tasting of local wines. Perched above the Loire River, Château d'Amboise was the main royal residence of Renaissance France. Leonardo da Vinci is buried here in the royal chapel, and during WWII this location witnessed occupation and liberation. Finish at Château de Chenonceau, the "Ladies' Château" built right across the river. Powerful women like Catherine de Medici filled it with secrets, before it was transformed into a WWI hospital, saving thousands of lives. From Renaissance royalty to world-class wine, experience the real stories and flavors that shaped France

This half-day Loire Valley experience is designed for travelers who want to discover the elegance of French royal history and local wine culture without spending a full day outside Paris. Unlike a standard castle visit, this tour combines the Royal Château of Blois with a sommelier-led wine tasting in Blois, giving guests a rich and well-balanced experience of the Loire Valley. Travelers will explore one of France’s most important royal residences, hear fascinating stories of kings, queens, and court intrigue, then enjoy a relaxed tasting of selected Loire Valley wines. With round-trip transportation from Paris, a knowledgeable guide, and carefully planned timing, this experience offers a smooth, comfortable, and memorable introduction to the Loire Valley in just half a day.

This experience brings together three symbols of Parisian elegance: French wine, fine cheese, and the legendary Galeries Lafayette. Set beneath the breathtaking Art Nouveau glass dome, the tasting is led by a professional sommelier who presents each wine with knowledge, warmth, and genuine enthusiasm. More than a simple tasting, this is an introduction to French wine culture, regional traditions, grape varieties, and the art of pairing wine with cheese. Enjoy three carefully selected French wines — red, white, and rosé — along with a glass of champagne and cheese pairings designed to enhance each flavor. The setting is refined yet relaxed, making the experience both accessible and memorable. With its iconic location, expert sommelier, champagne, and cheese pairing, this is a truly Parisian moment crafted for those who want to discover French gastronomy in one of the city’s most beautiful venues.

Engage your palate with a curated journey through Nice's craft beer scene. This guided tasting experience features five locally crafted beers in one of the city's best bars, with expert guidance on styles, flavors, and brewing techniques. Each session unravels the stories behind the ingredients and methods that shape these unique brews, making it an ideal outing for both novices and seasoned beer enthusiasts. Small group settings foster personal interactions, ensuring ample opportunity for questions and tasting notes, all while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of Nice's craft culture.

Discover the rich flavors of France on this Oyster, Wine & Champagne Tasting Tour in Paris. Begin with a guided stroll through the city's historic center, where you’ll savor fresh East Coast oysters paired with champagne. Continue exploring the French coast with tastings from regions like Normandy or Brittany, complemented by exquisite white wine. Conclude at a cozy oyster bar, learning about sustainability while enjoying diverse oyster varieties. Between tastings, take in the vibrant Parisian neighborhoods, combining culinary delight with cultural immersion. - Enjoy three distinct oyster tastings paired with wine and champagne - Guided stroll through iconic Parisian streets and neighborhoods - Learn about oyster terroir, merroir, and sustainability benefits - Experience duration: 2 hours with expert insights from a local guide

Discover the rich flavors and cultural heritage of Paris on this Cheese and Wine Tour. Starting at the stunning Saint-Paul Church, explore Paris’s acclaimed MOF cheesemonger for unique French cheeses and enjoy a picturesque cheese picnic at Place des Vosges. Indulge your taste buds with savory pastries from a local patisserie before concluding your journey at a charming wine bar, where you'll savor a selection of exquisite wines paired with cheese. This tour offers an authentic taste of Parisian culinary traditions and is perfect for food lovers and cultural enthusiasts alike. - Visit iconic locations including Saint-Paul Church and Place des Vosges - Sample inventive cheeses from a renowned MOF cheesemonger - Enjoy savory pastries from a local patisserie - Conclude with wine pairings at a traditional Parisian wine bar

Live a unique oenological experience in an urban cellar in the heart of Darwin in Bordeaux. This activity immerses you in a participatory workshop, where you become an actor in the creation of a wine. Accompanied by Maxime, oenologist, and Annaëlle, assistant cellar master, you discover the behind-the-scenes winemaking during a visit to the cellar and a tasting of cuvées accompanied by a cheese board. Scout through the characteristics of the main Bordeaux grape varieties to understand what makes the region’s wines rich: blending. What makes this experience special is that you move from theory to practice. From different monovines, you create your own blend, bottle your wine and leave with your own personalised cuvée. Between pedagogy, tasting and creation, this immersion in an urban cellar in the heart of Bordeaux offers an original and interactive approach to the world of wine.

"Live a rare immersion at Domaine La Gayolle: an adventure in freedom mixing playful trail play, exploration of Your four hundred-year-old trees and discovery of a thousand-year-old vineyard. A tasting of Your cuvées in the cellar completes this natural and authentic break in Provence Verte."

Experience a journey tailored entirely to your palate. By choosing this tour, you aren’t just booking a driver—you are securing a transport professional and a local WSET Level 3 certified wine expert as your personal guide. This is an exclusive, 100% private experience where you hold the map. You have the freedom to customize the itinerary and select the specific estates you wish to visit (subject to availability), ensuring a day that is as unique as your wine preferences. Moving south from the Médoc, the Graves and Pessac-Léognan regions offer a completely different—and equally captivating—Bordeaux experience. As the birthplace of the region's viticulture, this area combines ancient history with urban proximity and a unique dual mastery of both red and white wines. Graves is where it all began. In fact, the Romans were planting vines here 2,000 years ago. This is the only region in Bordeaux celebrated for producing world-class dry white wines alongside prestigious, smoky reds.

Experience a journey tailored entirely to your palate. By choosing this tour, you aren’t just booking a driver—you are securing a transport professional and a local WSET Level 3 certified wine expert as your personal guide. This is an exclusive, 100% private experience where you hold the map. You have the freedom to customize the itinerary and select the specific estates you wish to visit (subject to availability), ensuring a day that is as unique as your wine preferences. Stretching north from the historic city of Bordeaux along the Left Bank of the Gironde Estuary, the Médoc is arguably the most famous wine region in the world. This is a land where gravelly soils, a temperate maritime climate, and centuries of tradition combine into a great "Terroir" to produce legendary reds! Whether you are a seasoned collector or a curious traveler, the Médoc offers a breathtaking journey through four legendary communal appellations: Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Estephe.

Experience a journey tailored entirely to your palate. By choosing this tour, you aren’t just booking a driver—you are securing a transport professional and a local WSET Level 3 certified wine expert as your personal guide. This is an exclusive, 100% private experience where you hold the map. You have the freedom to customize the itinerary and select the specific estates you wish to visit (subject to availability), ensuring a day that is as unique as your wine preferences. As you crest the hills of the Dordogne Valley, the golden limestone tableland of Saint-Emilion emerges like a dream from a sea of emerald vines. This is a landscape where time seems to hold its breath, balancing the weight of medieval history with the vibrant energy of a world-class wine capital. To visit Saint-Émilion and its neighbor, Pomerol, is to enter a world of intimacy, where the relationship between the vigneron and the soil is etched into every stone and felt in every glass.

This exclusive journey through Avignon is no ordinary tour; it is a definitive manifesto of the absolute finest art de vivre, where mediocrity simply does not exist. Shop, yes, but shop with intention: bypass generic tourist traps and mass-produced souvenirs, as my expert eye opens doors to confidential designers and elite artisan workshops, ensuring you invest only in the lasting excellence of authentic Made in France creations. Eat and drink, yes, but demand the absolute best: from the exclusive, full multi-course feast at Place des Carmes to the master-crafted chocolates at Chapelle des Italiens, every single bite and premium vintage selected throughout the seasons represents the absolute pinnacle of Provencal gastronomy. From the historic waterwheels of Rue des Teinturiers to the divine panoramas of Rocher des Doms, this elite itinerary transforms every stop into a private, sensory triumph designed exclusively for uncompromising epicureans who accept nothing less than perfection.

Ready for the ultimate afternoon in Avignon? Book this exclusive Discovery Food Tour and dive into a paradise of rare artisanal tastings, elite local wines, and a spectacular historic stroll. Designed with the uncompromising standards of a former private jet luxury concierge, this high-end experience guarantees flawless, bespoke service where every detail is tailored for your pure comfort. Forget the industrial, mass-market traps designed for crowds; here, authenticity reigns supreme. You will indulge in an abundance of premium, fresh, and organic local delicacies crafted from secret, generations-old recipes. From pristine liquid gold olive oils to exquisite sweet and savory delights, this is an elite culinary journey into the raw craftsmanship of Provence. Spaces are strictly limited for this prestigious encounter. Secure your unforgettable gourmet journey now!

With the guidance of your native English-speaking host, step into the relaxed rhythm of everyday life in Marseille. Set in a typical local wine bar, this experience blends conversation, culture, and connection in an authentic French setting. Rather than a formal class, you’ll share a drink, engage in natural conversation, and experience how locals gather to unwind and connect. As the evening unfolds, you’ll practice English in a welcoming, social atmosphere while gaining insight into French culture, communication styles, and wine bar etiquette. Your host will gently guide the conversation, helping you feel comfortable and included, whether you’re here to improve your English or simply enjoy a meaningful, local experience. This is not a scripted lesson, but a genuine social moment—intimate, relaxed, and rooted in the simple pleasure of conversation and a shared drink.

Most wine classes happen in a room. This one happens in Paris nightlife. Over 2.5 hours, your international sommelier Mari guides you through three of the most iconic wine bars in Saint-Germain-des-Prés — each stop a new chapter in your understanding of French wine. By the end of the evening, you won't just have tasted great wine. You'll understand it. At each bar, Mari reads your palate, advises your choice by the glass, and guides the tasting — helping you discover your own wine personality and the regional styles of France. You order what calls to you. She explains why it speaks to you.

Unlike the classic guided tours of Lyon, this experience is animated by a real sommelier and remains on the authentic plateau of the Croix-Rousse, far from the tourist circuits. Here, there is no Guide who recites dates: you choose your own products from real artisans in the district, you taste the Lyon specialties explained one by one, and you finish with a real wine workshop where you learn to taste the wines of the Rhone Valley as a connoisseur.

Guided by a Lyon sommelier, you don’t just taste: you learn actively. First the basics to analyze a wine correctly then the heart of the workshop, the food and wine pairings. You test both good and bad chords to understand for yourself, concretely, why some combinations sublimate and others destroy. The workshop progresses in phases: goat versus cow, unripened cheese versus long ripening, then blue, where you are completely autonomous to reflect and slice alone. Along the way, you explore the French terroirs with grape varieties, soils and microclimates explained without jargon. Standing, friendly, outdoors as soon as the weather allows, all in an authentic cellar of the Croix-Rousse. An immersion in gastronomic Lyon without setting foot outside.

Here, no frozen tasting or formatted speech. Sommelier Lyonnais by birth, your host gives you a real method to look, smell and analyze a wine, understand the pairings and choose a bottle with confidence, whether in the restaurant or at home. To make the moment even more lively, make room for pétanque, while one team plays, the other continues the tasting, and each alternates between balls and glass in hand. This mix of learning and play, in an authentic neighborhood cellar of the Plateau de la Croix-Rousse, creates a relaxed and warm atmosphere not found in standardized tourist tastings. A real Lyon break, thought like a good afternoon with friends.

Most Montmartre tours rush you past the highlights with 20 strangers. We cap every departure at 8 guests and go deeper — the hidden studios where Picasso launched Cubism, the vineyard planted to save the hill, Van Gogh's apartment with no plaque. An expert local guide who actually knows these streets, and a proper wine and cheese apéro to close. This is Montmartre as it deserves to be seen: intimate, unhurried, and full of stories the guidebooks leave out.