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 high quality 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 power all yr spherical, with a calendar filled with thrilling occasions. Pleasure seekers, heritage and tradition lovers, sports activities followers, individuals seeking new resorts: each traveller will discover their very own Bordeaux in 2024!

Wine tourism

Get pleasure from 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 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 artistic endeavors, statues and architectural particulars with a wine connection. Each summer season, the Bordeaux Fête le Vin wine competition 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 need 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 slightly additional out, there are tons of of wine properties which open their doorways large to guests, who come to find a occupation, a ardour, within the coronary heart of a accountable, welcoming winery.

Gastronomy

From high-end connoisseur venues to new, fashionable 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 critically in Bordeaux. A fast overview of what’s new: a mecca of high quality 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 slightly gem that provides an entire menu for €26 at lunchtime. There’s a brand new title and new place for the Cromagnon restaurant: Inima takes its place, nonetheless below the management of proficient, artistic chef Oxana Cretu. At Vivants, the pair of Bordeaux cooks Tanguy Laviale and Maxime Rosselin supply informal high quality eating with round forty seats which brings out the perfect 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, group 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 commemorate artwork in all its types. 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.

A necessary 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 can be accessible 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

Environment, finances, location: the lodging on supply meets everybody’s expectations! New resorts are flourishing within the streets of Bordeaux, promising memorable experiences, like First Identify, 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 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 previous 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 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 lodge scene, whereas the Majestic, positioned within the coronary heart of the town, is having its massive curtain-raiser within the first quarter of 2024. Positioned in Talence, the verdant Domaine de Raba is at the moment 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 way of life, 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 constructive impression for its inhabitants, guests and atmosphere. Involved about its ecological and social impression, the Gironde’s capital is ethically minded and establishes itself completely as a accountable tourism vacation spot. In recent times, it has stood out for its rising dedication to eco-responsibility, rating ninth on the planet within the World Vacation spot Sustainability Index 2022 (GDS Index), a global 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 revel in an analogous 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 greatest journey blogs” and “greatest for luxurious” by The Day by day Telegraph.