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October 12-19, 2025

Bordeaux: Wine, Food and Culture

Bordeaux is many things. It is an elegant, beautiful city surrounded by some of the most famous wine regions in the world. Join us to experience all that the city has to offer, along with focused visits in three of Bordeaux’s wine regions. If you haven’t already, you’ll fall in love, just like we have.

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What You’ll Love about Your Week in Bordeaux

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What You’ll Love about Your Week in Bordeaux

If you love learning about wine, the Bordeaux Culinaria is made for you. We’ll be visiting wineries for tours and tastings in three of Bordeaux’s wine regions: Medoc, Sauternes and Entre-Deux-Mers. You’ll find each visit to be different, with particular attention paid to tradition, adaptation, food-wine pairings, and an introduction to a region not as well known.

Being synonymous with wine, Bordeaux is also home to a new wine museum, Cite du Vin, opened in 2016. Architecturally interesting and full of interactive and sensory wine exhibits, it is a place to learn everything you want to know about wine — worldwide!

The city of Bordeaux itself is spectacular – elegant, approachable, and easily walkable. We’ll have a food tour, stopping in local specialty shops, boulangerie, cheese shops and more, plus a cultural tour, a cooking class and some great meals.

If history is one of your fascinations, we’ll venture to the Dordogne to visit the Lascaux Cave, featuring paintings that are thought to be some of the earliest and most detailed human paintings. While we are there, we’ll visit with a truffle producer and have lunch at a lovely Relais & Chateaux Hotel.

You’ll return home with new wine knowledge and a deeper appreciation for this beautiful city and region.

Registered Dietitians may be eligible to earn continuing education credits pending review and approval from CDR.

Day by Day

Photo courtesy of the InterContinental Bordeaux
Day 1

Sunday, October 12

Check into the beautiful InterContinental Bordeaux and get settled. Take time to explore and walk around your new neighborhood or take a swim in the pool. We’ll meet in the early evening for a Welcome Session and Dinner in the spectacular, historic Sauternes Room in the hotel.

Bordeaux the city of art and wine
Day 2

Monday, October 13

It’s a day for food and wine. We’ll start with a cooking class and lunch with a local chef, and then spend the rest of the day at the Cite du Vin. You’ll have a guided tour and tasting, and then you’ll be free to experience this amazing museum on your own, or to explore the city on your own. You’ll be free for the evening – to dine out or return to the hotel.

Cheese shop
Day 3

Tuesday, October 14

Tuesday morning features a wonderful food, wine and cheese walking tour in Bordeaux. We’ll divide into groups, so you’ll have a very special experience. You won’t be hungry for lunch! In the afternoon, we’ll have our first wine-focused tour at Chateau Lynch-Bages in the Medoc. The winery is both old and new, and the tour concludes with a tasting. We’ll stay in Bages for dinner at Café Lavinal, right next to the winery.

Photo courtesy of Hotel du Centenaire
Day 4

Wednesday, October 15

We’ll start early for the Dordogne, with a 90-minute drive to the Lascaux Cave. Because of the outstanding prehistoric art in the cave, Lascaux was inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage List as an element of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley. After a guided tour, we’ll have a stop at a truffle producer in Les Eyzies before continuing on to lunch at the elegant Les Centenaire restaurant. You’ll be free in the evening after our return to Bordeaux.

Canelé
Day 5

Thursday, October 16

You’ll learn about canelé during our walking food tour on Tuesday; this morning, you’ll learn how to make them! Afterwards, you’ll be free for lunch on your own before we leave for the wine region, Sauternes. We’ll be visiting Chateau La Tour Blanche for a tour, tasting, and dinner – and we’ll also focus on food pairings with sweet wines, like Sauterne.

Entre Deux Mers
Day 6

Friday, October 17

On Friday morning, we’ll venture to a wine region that is less familiar than most — Entre- Deux-Mers. It’s close to the city, and we’ll choose one or two wineries to visit for a tour and tasting and a vineyard lunch. You’ll be free in the evening when we return to Bordeaux.

Bordeaux wine
Day 7

Saturday, October 18

We’ll have a number of choices for you to select for your final full day in Bordeaux – wine or oysters or history/art – or a free day on your own. The Bordeaux Culinaria will conclude with a group dinner at one of Bordeaux’s wonderful restaurants.

Grand Hotel de Bordeaux
Day 8

Sunday, October 19

Departures for home or additional travel.

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Your Accommodations

InterContinental Bordeaux
Photo courtesy of hotel InterContinental Bordeaux

Hotel InterContinental Bordeaux

We’ll be in staying in one hotel for the entire week — the historic and beautiful Grand Hotel de Bordeaux – now the InterContinental Bordeaux. As noted on their website: For more than 200 years, the Grand Hotel de Bordeaux has been the doorway to luxury travel in the heart of Bordeaux. The hotel features stunning architecture, elegant 19th century-inspired guest rooms, and two Michelin-starred restaurants. You can also enjoy the spa, or swim in the indoor pool.

Premium room: (an additional 70€ per night)

With a very generous 35m² space and an elegant decoration, Premium Rooms mix comfort, refinement and modernity thanks to a subtle game of colors and textures. The perfect fusion between contemporary and history makes it a dreamy place to relax after a day discovering the indisputable charm of Bordeaux.

Junior suite: (an additional 190€ per night)

From carpets to drapes, furniture to wall colors, the atmosphere of the Junior Suites displays in 45m² a voluptuous aesthetic through a harmony of materials and tones cared for in every detail. Spacious, they invite you to a true moment of relaxation for a grandiose stay. The Junior Suite with a view of the Opera House is an additional 320€ per night.

Suite: (an additional 250€ per night)

Composed of a spacious 50m² room that can be separated by a door creating two separate spaces, the Suites are ideal for a family stay. Displaying an independent living room with a sofa bed that can accommodate two additional people, these suites will undoubtedly meet all your desires for conviviality and guarantee optimal comfort for all.

Wine bar suite: (an additional 515€ per night)

Charm and delicacy emanate from Wine Bar Suites which, with their private wine bar offer a new occasion to surprise and delight as well as another way to experience your stay. These 70m² suites with a private living room and refined bathroom are unique. Each space has been carefully designed for your greatest comfort.

Prestige suite: (an additional 615€ per night)

The Prestige Suites Opera View offer breathtaking views of both the Cours de l’Intendance and Place de la Comédie and its inconic Opéra National. Neo-Classical inspired, the 70m² suites offer a bright and welcoming living room. With two private entrances and a large bathroom with bright marble, this little corner of paradise will meet all your expectations.

Suite royale: (an additional 1500€ per night)

The Royal Suite invites you into a universe where luxury and pleasure will accompany you throughout the stay. Decorated in an imperial style, this unique 100m² space which consists of a bedroom, a separate living room with a private entrance as well as an impressive bathroom where marble and gilding mixes with elegance and harmony. This room also offers the ultimate privilege: a 90m² spectacular terrace offering a panoramic and unique view of Place de la Comédie and its Opera, the Garonne River, and Allées de Tourny. This private space comes with its private jacuzzi to make of your stay a moment to always remember.

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Bordeaux: Wine, Food and Culture

All major airlines fly to Bordeaux through a European connection (Paris, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Rome, Dublin, Istanbul). A number of regional airlines also fly from European cities (Ryanair, EasyJet, Volotea).

Pricing & Registration

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Pricing & Registration

Bordeaux: Wine, Food and Culture

Please download and complete the registration form below, which includes instructions for how to submit the form and deposit to Oldways.

Prices are based on rates of exchange, taxes, and other costs as of the tour publication date. We reserve the right to correct errors and changes, and to increase program prices to cover increased costs, taris, and taxes received after prices are published and to reflect currency fluctuations.

  • Price per person from $6,105 per person
  • If this trip must be cancelled due to COVID-19, refunds will be issued.

Trip Insurance

Medical Insurance

Oldways has procured medical and evacuation insurance for all Culinaria participants while traveling on one of our Culinarias with an Accident & Health policy from The Hartford.  Additionally, Hartford partners with International Medical Group (IMG), a leading global assistance provider, to give us 24/7 access to medical and travel assistance services anywhere in the world.  The policy also gives you as a Culinaria participant insurance for medical expenses, evacuation, and repatriation.

Since 1990, IMG has offered travel assistance services and a global network of medical providers to millions of people in nearly every country around the world. Working across time zones and in different languages, IMG’s commitment to “Being There” provides end-to-end coordinated care – so you can feel secure while traveling.

Please let us know if you need more information about the medical insurance.

Travel Insurance

While we cannot offer travel insurance for the cost of the trip or your air travel, here are three widely used travel insurance companies:

Allianz

Travelex

Travel Guard by AIG

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For additional questions, please reach out to [email protected] or contact Abby Sloane at  617-896-4875.