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We're in the heart of wine country in St. Méard de Gurçon! Here you can enjoy award-winning local red, rosé and white Bergerac and Montravel wines, made at properties a short walk from your holiday home. Just 40 minutes away are St. Emilion and Pomerol, exclusive districts of the vast Bordeaux vineyards and home to some of the finest (and at Ch. Petrus, the most expensive!) wines in the world.
Good English is spoken at all of our featured chateau properties. This is less likely to be the case with the co-operatives, though a few words may be possible - but where else can you stock up on good, everyday red for just €1.10/litre (about 60p a bottle), sold direct from the vat? It puts a new slant on the phrase "bring your own bottle"! Click
here for an introduction to our local wines and specialities.
Tel.:
05.53.82.48.41
Tel.: 05.53.82.48.31
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05.53.80.76.34
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05.53.22.94.40
Tel.:
05.57.74.49.41 - please call before visiting!
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05.53.82.81.50
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05.53.27.52.22
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Welcome
to wine country!
This
page is an introduction both to the wines and to some of the many
local producers who'd love to meet you, show you around and let
you try their wares! There are far too many to list - so be sure
to ask your hosts for some of their favourites too.
Chateau
Le Raz
- Just outside the village on the hillsides to the south lie the
vineyards of Chateau Le Raz. Here they make a dizzying range of
wines (especially so after a degustation),
to award-winning standards, and are suppliers to a number of major
London hotels and restaurants. I bet it costs more at the Ritz,
though! 
Clos
D'Yvigne
- Just a twenty minute drive away across to the south side of the
Dordogne valley you'll find Clos D'Yvigne. Owned and run by Patricia
Atkinson, whose bestselling book "
Chateau
la Rose Cotes Rol
- A visit to St. Emilion is a must for all wine-lovers. The medieval
town is by far the most picturesque in the Bordeaux wine-making
region, but with literally hundreds of chateaux to choose from where
do you start? How about Pierre Mirande at Ch. la Rose Côtes
Rol - a young and enthusiastic winemaker, blending his family
traditions with new skills and techniques to produce superb St.
Emilion Grand Cru wines.
La
Grappe de Gurson
- Probably the best-value wine in the area, prices start at €1.10
a litre for the basic rouge. As well as wine on tap (en
vrac), there's a wide range of bottles to try, including excellent
value pink Champage-style wines made according to traditional methods,
which seem to be on permanent special offer!
Based
at Carsac de Gurson, a stone's throw from the beach at Lac de Gurson.
St
Vivien & Bonneville
- Or, to give its full, snappy title, Les Viticulteurs Reunis
de St. Vivien et Bonneville, this co-operative is remarkable
not only for its 1930's-built concrete construction - it's widely
regarded locally as being consistantly one of the best co-operatives
in the area. A regular international award-winner!