Wine Roads

Red Wine Roads – 2 weeks
France: Southern Burgundy, Bordeaux & the Dordogne

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Our Trips
Overview Map
of all of our routes

Departure Calendar
of our regular trips
What's Included
in the Trip Cost
Additional Services
you can add to the bike trip.

St-Emilion, Monbazillac, the “Côtes” of Nuits & Beaune.... If you can cycle through a town not on a wine label, we’ll treat you to a glass of “gros rouge qui tache.” (Literally, “fat red which stains.” How poetic). Vineyards surround us for much of our route, and this is your definitive chance to decide whether you are a Cabernet boy or a Pinot Noir girl....

Foie gras, snails, roast duck with drippings, whole hams in cream sauces.... De Gaulle once rhetorically asked how he could hope to govern a country with 300 varieties of cheese. A good portion are made along our route. Not exactly a health spa, but if you can’t do this on a bicycle, when can you?
Red Wine Roads
2008 Dates
Baggage Services Offered**
(optional)
Trip Prices*
May 17 - 30 — Trip Full
On these same dates, consider our
Rivers and Canyons trip, which also visits the Dordogne Valley.

Daily
Lite
$3,495 US or C

2,225€
June 29 - July 12 — Trip Full
On these same dates, consider our
C’est Cheese trip, for equally varied wine region cycling.
Half
Lite
Aug. 31 - Sept. 13
Daily
Half
Lite

* Prices in $ and € do not include precisely the same things. Click here for details, and for prices of optional extras: private single rooms, baggage services, and (in the case of the € price only) bike rental and shipping.

** At least 4 riders must subscribe to a given baggage service for it to operate. The services listed are those currently offered on the departure in question. Services which appear in bold already have at least 3 subscribers (so, one more would ensure their operation). See here for a discussion of our baggage services.


Thumbnail view of the trip’s itinerary.
For details within each region, click on the name under “Region Visited”...
Days
Days of the Week
Region Visited
 Details
0
Sa
 Meet in Dijon
1 - 6
Su - Tu
 Vineyards of the Côte d'Or
We & Th
 The Côte Chalonaise, Cluny
Th & Fr
 Dijon, Vercingétorix
7
Sa
Train to the Dordogne Valley
7 - 14
Sa - Mo
 Pomerol, St.-Emilion
Mo - We
 The Dordogne Valley
We - Fr
 Hilltowns, Cro Magnon Caves of the Perigord
15
Sa & Su
The Dordogne Valley,
Post-Access Package travel date
 The trip disbands upon arrival in Souillac on Saturday
The Souillac Access Package includes a return to Paris, and a night there.