What’s new in Bordeaux – A Luxurious Journey Weblog

As genuine as it’s dynamic, city and pure, historic but various, Bordeaux has loads going for it! Famed for its vineyards, structure and superb 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 life-style that displays all of the authenticity of the South-West, pleasant and uncomplicated. Liberated and galvanizing, Bordeaux charms and attracts guests with its attractive power all 12 months spherical, with a calendar filled with thrilling occasions. Pleasure seekers, heritage and tradition lovers, sports activities followers, folks in the hunt for new resorts: each traveller will discover their very own Bordeaux in 2024!

Wine tourism

Take pleasure in 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 grasp 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 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 individuals who need to lengthen the expertise: from the town to the winery, typically 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 little bit additional out, there are tons of of wine properties which open their doorways vast 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, fashionable eating places, together with locations that target native merchandise, meals courts and energetic 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 superb 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 little bit gem that gives a whole menu for €26 at lunchtime. There’s a brand new title and new place for the Cromagnon restaurant: Inima takes its place, nonetheless beneath the management of proficient, inventive chef Oxana Cretu. At Vivants, the pair of Bordeaux cooks Tanguy Laviale and Maxime Rosselin provide informal superb eating with round forty seats which brings out one of the best 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 novel venue will open its doorways within the first half of the 12 months: Atelier des Citernes will deliver collectively 900m² of meals counters, group areas linked to artwork and gastronomy, and a stage.

Tradition

All 12 months spherical, Bordeaux satisfies cultural appetites because of a wealthy programme in museums and a bunch of galleries that commemorate artwork in all its types. The town can also be residence 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 novel cultural vacation spot. Refurbished final 12 months, 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 12 months, a sensory journey known as By way of Sensoria will likely be out there from 26 March to three November: guests are invited to expertise a novel tasting second, accompanied by a sommelier, whereas strolling by means of 4 immersive areas.

Lodging

Environment, finances, location: the lodging on provide 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 because of 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 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 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 resort scene, whereas the Majestic, situated within the coronary heart of the town, is having its large 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 12 months will provide 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 deliver Bordeaux and its metropolitan space to life. After the Rugby World Cup final 12 months, 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 event between 24 July and a couple of August. On 21 and 22 June, the TOP 14 semi-finals will brighten up the sporting calendar.

Embracing accountable tourism

Bordeaux as a vacation spot is taking motion to advertise tourism with a optimistic affect for its inhabitants, guests and surroundings. Involved about its ecological and social affect, 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 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 return and revel in the same expertise!

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is Editor of A Luxurious Journey Weblog and has labored within the journey trade 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 Each day Telegraph.