What’s new in Bordeaux – A Luxurious Journey Weblog

As genuine as it’s dynamic, city and pure, historic but different, Bordeaux has loads going for it! Famed for its vineyards, structure and tremendous meals, the vacation spot additionally impresses with its cool perspective, cultural pleasure and laid-back lifestyle. Between land and ocean, Bordeaux is influenced from all instructions, and divulges a way of life that displays all of the authenticity of the South-West, pleasant and uncomplicated. Liberated and galvanizing, Bordeaux charms and attracts guests with its engaging vitality all yr spherical, with a calendar stuffed with thrilling occasions. Pleasure seekers, heritage and tradition lovers, sports activities followers, folks looking for new inns: each traveller will discover their very own Bordeaux in 2024!

Wine tourism

Take pleasure in a wine tasting workshop in a typical Bordeaux condo 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 varieties! And to know how the tradition and commerce of wine have set the tempo and formed 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 competition actually brings the banks of the Garonne to life. See you from 27 to 30 June for the most recent 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 need to lengthen the expertise: from 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 a bit of additional out, there are lots of of wine properties which open their doorways broad to guests, who come to find a occupation, 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 target 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 tremendous 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 a bit of gem that provides 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 underneath the management of gifted, inventive chef Oxana Cretu. At Vivants, the pair of Bordeaux cooks Tanguy Laviale and Maxime Rosselin supply informal tremendous eating with round forty seats which brings out the most effective in native merchandise. At Souquo, the delicacies is home made, 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 because of a wealthy programme in museums and a number of galleries that commemorate artwork in all its varieties. The town can 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 brief 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 around the globe by means of their cultural, civilisational, heritage and common dimensions. For the second yr, a sensory journey known as Through Sensoria shall be accessible from 26 March to three November: guests are invited to expertise a singular tasting second, accompanied by a sommelier, whereas strolling by means of 4 immersive areas.

Lodging

Ambiance, finances, location: the lodging on supply meets everybody’s expectations! New inns 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 Lodge, with its vibrant, classic ornament and gallery really feel because of the artworks displayed within the widespread 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 relationship from the nineteenth century, with 97 rooms and suites, a restaurant and bar combining Japanese culinary artwork and Western flavours, a spa and huge out of doors terrace. On the quays, the Indigo Bordeaux boutique resort transports its visitors right into a bohemian world paying homage to Arcachon Bay. As for deliberate reopenings: the 5-star Burdigala has made its comeback on the Bordeaux resort scene, whereas the Majestic, situated within the coronary heart of town, is having its huge curtain-raiser within the first quarter of 2024. Situated in Talence, the verdant Domaine de Raba is at present present process a metamorphosis, 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 means of on 23 Could, and internet hosting seven matches of the ladies’s and males’s soccer match 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 impression for its inhabitants, guests and setting. Involved about its ecological and social impression, 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 the same 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 ‘Finest Journey Influencer’ Award from WIRED journal. Along with different awards, the weblog has additionally been voted “one of many world’s greatest journey blogs” and “greatest for luxurious” by The Every day Telegraph.