What’s new in Bordeaux – A Luxurious Journey Weblog

As genuine as it’s dynamic, city and pure, historic but different, Bordeaux has lots going for it! Famed for its vineyards, structure and advantageous meals, the vacation spot additionally impresses with its cool angle, cultural pleasure and laid-back lifestyle. Between land and ocean, Bordeaux is influenced from all instructions, and divulges a life-style that displays all of the authenticity of the South-West, pleasant and uncomplicated. Liberated and provoking, Bordeaux charms and attracts guests with its attractive power all yr spherical, with a calendar filled with thrilling occasions. Pleasure seekers, heritage and tradition lovers, sports activities followers, individuals searching for new lodges: each traveller will discover their very own Bordeaux in 2024!

Wine tourism

Get pleasure from a wine tasting workshop in a typical Bordeaux condominium or historic cellar, sip a glass in one of many metropolis’s many wine bars: Bordeaux’s nectars are yours to find and style in all their types! And to know how the tradition and commerce of wine have set the tempo and formed the town for hundreds of years: the strolling tour “Within the footsteps of wine within the metropolis” invitations guests to open their eyes to the artworks, statues and architectural particulars with a wine connection. Each summer time, the Bordeaux Fête le Vin wine pageant really brings the banks of the Garonne to life. See you from 27 to 30 June for the newest version of this pleasant occasion, which brings collectively wine growers and merchants from the area and most people with its tastings and actions.

And for many who wish to prolong the expertise: from the town to the winery, generally it’s only a fast hop by public transport! The Bordeaux metropolis has a dozen wine properties accessible by tram, bus or bicycle. And somewhat additional out, there are tons of of wine properties which open their doorways large to guests, who come to find a career, a ardour, within the coronary heart of a accountable, welcoming winery.

Gastronomy

From high-end gourmand venues to new, stylish eating places, together with locations that concentrate on native merchandise, meals courts and vigorous markets: the artwork of appreciating the great issues in life is taken severely in Bordeaux. A fast overview of what’s new: a mecca of advantageous meals, Ganache is launching festive dinner-evenings on the finish of the week with the idea “Ganache lets its hair down”! Within the metropolis centre, Epicentre is somewhat gem that gives a whole menu for €26 at lunchtime. There’s a brand new identify and new place for the Cromagnon restaurant: Inima takes its place, nonetheless beneath the management of gifted, artistic chef Oxana Cretu. At Vivants, the pair of Bordeaux cooks Tanguy Laviale and Maxime Rosselin supply informal advantageous eating with round forty seats which brings out the perfect in native merchandise. At Souquo, the delicacies is selfmade, vegetarian and actually vibrant! All to be loved in a heat, cosy room. Within the station district, a singular venue will open its doorways within the first half of the yr: Atelier des Citernes will convey collectively 900m² of meals counters, neighborhood areas linked to artwork and gastronomy, and a stage.

Tradition

All yr spherical, Bordeaux satisfies cultural appetites due to a wealthy programme in museums and a bunch of galleries that remember artwork in all its types. The town can also be house to some distinctive cultural locations. Open since 2020 contained in the submarine base, the XXL digital artwork centre Bassins des Lumières hosts a number of immersive exhibitions. From 16 February, the exhibition “From Vermeer to Van Gogh, the Dutch masters” invitations the general public to stroll within the footsteps of the painters from the North. The quick programme pays homage to Piet Mondrian, the architect of color.

An important cease on any go to to Bordeaux, the Cité du Vin is a singular cultural vacation spot. Refurbished final yr, the everlasting exhibition attracts on digital interactive applied sciences to focus on vineyards from all over the world by their cultural, civilisational, heritage and common dimensions. For the second yr, a sensory journey known as By way of Sensoria might be out there from 26 March to three November: guests are invited to expertise a singular tasting second, accompanied by a sommelier, whereas strolling by 4 immersive areas.

Lodging

Ambiance, finances, location: the lodging on supply meets everybody’s expectations! New lodges are flourishing within the streets of Bordeaux, promising memorable experiences, like First Title, a shining 4-star institution within the coronary heart of the Mériadeck district, with a real feel-good spirit, or the Marty Resort, with its vibrant, classic ornament and gallery really feel due to the artworks displayed within the frequent areas, all on the market. In Les Chartrons, the 5-star Mondrian Hôtel des Carmes, designed by Philippe Starck, opened on the positioning of outdated wine cellars courting from the nineteenth century, with 97 rooms and suites, a restaurant and bar combining Japanese culinary artwork and Western flavours, a spa and enormous out of doors terrace. On the quays, the Indigo Bordeaux boutique lodge transports its company right into a bohemian world harking back to Arcachon Bay. As for deliberate reopenings: the 5-star Burdigala has made its comeback on the Bordeaux lodge scene, whereas the Majestic, situated within the coronary heart of the town, is having its huge curtain-raiser within the first quarter of 2024. Positioned in Talence, the verdant Domaine de Raba is presently present process a change, and this yr will supply new rooms within the coronary heart of the forest and rooftop lodges, in addition to a brand new spa. As for vineyards, Château de Léognan has a variety of complementary lodging celebrating the French life-style, and three lodges out within the coronary heart of nature, promising a country, intimate keep.

The Olympic and Paralympic Video games

Yearly, quite a few occasions actually convey Bordeaux and its metropolitan space to life. After the Rugby World Cup final yr, the vacation spot will transfer to the beat of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, with the Olympic flame passing by on 23 Might, and internet hosting seven matches of the ladies’s and males’s soccer event between 24 July and a couple of August. On 21 and 22 June, the TOP 14 semi-finals will enliven the sporting calendar.

Embracing accountable tourism

Bordeaux as a vacation spot is taking motion to advertise tourism with a optimistic influence for its inhabitants, guests and setting. Involved about its ecological and social influence, the Gironde’s capital is ethically minded and establishes itself completely as a accountable tourism vacation spot. Lately, it has stood out for its rising dedication to eco-responsibility, rating ninth on this planet within the World Vacation spot Sustainability Index 2022 (GDS Index), a world barometer which analyses locations’ accountable efficiency.

Welcome to a metropolis the place each keep may be sustainable by way of journey, lodging, leisure… A metropolis that enriches each journey and so permits future generations to come back and luxuriate in an identical expertise!

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxurious Journey Weblog and has labored within the journey business for greater than 30 years. He’s Winner of the Improvements in Journey ‘Greatest Journey Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of many world’s finest journey blogs” and “finest for luxurious” by The Every day Telegraph.