Page 361 - Lonely Planet France’s Best Trips (Travel Guide)

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Heritage Wine

Country 33

This is the trip for those who appreciate the finer things in life:
great wine, fabulous regional cuisine and gentle driving through
glorious vine-ribboned countryside studded with grand châteaux.

TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
5 DAYS
130 km 257KM / 160 MILES
75 km St-Émilion
Home to some of the
Blaye world's most famous GREAT FOR…
Learn how to wines
construct the perfect HB
fortress
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BEST TIME TO GO
September and
0 km # St-Antoine October: the grape
harvest takes place,
Bordeaux Louens # oysters are in season.
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Red roofs of St-
Émilion from place
des Créneaux.
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FOODIES
Dune du Pilat
Feast on oysters on Slurping fresh oysters
the seashore at Bordeaux’s Marché
245 km des Capucins.
St 359
Location Caption details to go here-Émilion Wine shops line the cobbled streets