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Travel guide: Bordeaux wine tours to remember
Get the taste of France with this Bourdeaux travel guide.
By Claire Smith
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The Graves Road
To the south of Bordeaux, vines share the land with pine forest. This tour offers the opportunity to pair some serious R&R with your wine journey. Martillac is known for its spa and vinotherapy (spa treatments featuring skin-pampering grape compounds left over from the winemaking process). Visit the nature preserve at Saucats to work off some of that calorific French cuisine you've been sampling. And for those who like their wines on the sweeter side, guess what: this is the region where sweet Sauternes dessert wines are produced. Stroll the vines and then sample some.
The Fortified Towns Road
Head "between two seas," as the Entre-deux-Mers region is known. Set between two rivers, this is Bordeaux's fastest growing wine region and its becoming known for its wine bounty, from fruity reds to young and crisp whites -- rosés and dessert wines, too. History buffs will delight in wandering fortified towns like Créon and Sauveterre de Guyenne, abbeys like la Sauve Majeure as well as Chateau de Malagar, where 19th century master painter Toulouse Lautrec once lived.
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And visit Bordeaux.com for travel information.
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