With 113,000 hectares (276,000 acres) of vineyards and almost 1000 years of wine-making history, Bordeaux is the largest and oldest fine wine producing region in the entire world! Bordeaux has a huge variety of landscapes, soil types and sorts of wines, resulting in no less than 57 appellations.

Wine-tasting at Château de Clérac

Over the years we've found that while many of guests enjoy discovering the huge abundance of wines from the local areas, several feel "uncomfortable" with French wine as it's often not easy to tell where it has come from and also what grapes were used to make it. Some would have preferred a short course so that they might have been better informed and more confident when going around the various vineyards during their stay.

Then there are the guests who know their Pauillac's from their Pomerol's and would like to try something that would otherwise be hard to get back home or prohobatively expensive. If they could have tasted something like this they would have been able to visit the chateaux in question.

This is why we developped wine-tasting courses that are held at the Chateau. All wine tastings are held in the Dining Room and are conducted (in English) by an expert in the field.

"Tour de France" of Wine

This course is for a wide range of people - from total beginners to wine enthusiasts - and aims to explain and occasionally de-mystify, all things to do with French wine! You'll learn how to taste wine like the experts and learn to recognize specific regional varieties. 6 reds and 4 whites will be tasted (although this can be varied with prior consent). Please contact us for more details.

Bespoke Courses

For guests with more discerning palettes we can create a bespoke wine-tasting. Just tell us your preferences, your group, what you'd like to achieve (e.g. like to taste a vintage Lafite or Mouton-Rothschild?) and of course your budget and we'll do the rest. Please contact us early and we can get the ball rolling!