Experience The Best Of Saint Emilion Bordeaux With Wine Tour and Lunch By Bicycle!

we're off to Bordeaux more of a river cruise stop than an ocean cruise stop L relle is probably the most popular ocean Port nearby and it's 2 hours away we're not going around by electric train we've chosen to do a cycle tour but because it's a cycle tour of Vineyards three Vineyards three wine tastings and they are electric bikes so with the electric battery engaged Jean is up the hill first followed by Laura the two Lads are deciding to try and brave it out without the electric kicked in and are pedaling I think they used the batteries at some point during the tour oh this wall by the way is actually not really an A Relic of a church they started to build a new church then realized they already had one so they stopped building that other one enough of that we'll come back to it later back to the tour our bikes have saddle bags so you can keep things you need including a rain cover but as you can see Matt decided he'd cycle in his T-shirt it was a bit damp and grizzly it's October and as you can see the grapes have already been picked and Jean is actually in C A milon let's go ride a bike so we did ride the bikes for the whole day now if it rains too much you can go by Co coach and if it rains in the middle of it they'll get the coach to come and get you so it's all good here's our first stop this is the pomal vineyard the parel of land known as pomal and this is the beautiful chatau Monet so the others went off round to the back to park the bikes and I cycled around pretty quick to try and catch them up with the camera going and then as I turned the corner and saw them there in the distance I hit the gravel and the bik stopped good job I was a stunt man there are a number of bird boxes all around this particular chatau and across the land because they encourage Birds to take care of the insects and bees to pollinate the land they also don't crush their grapes by stamping or pressing they allow the weight of the grapes to gently crush each other and circulate the mixture in the big Vats with the pumps so that the grapes continue to press each other gently once it's ready it's put into these barrels which are hugely expensive we worked out by the end of the day The Vineyards that were using new Oak barrels and we'll go more into that later we're adding a about €2 a bottle to the actual cost of the wine we did a zoom on the butel the bordo region tends to specialize in mainly Mero and malbeck although malbeck dropped off many years ago when they had a problem and now they're gradually bringing it back but it originally came from here so they're famous for their Reds and that's because they have a blue clay soil which kind of does something special to the wine we sampled four wines before lunch and then had a bottle of wine with lunch our next Vineyard was one of the oldest family vineyards in the area shatow bistr lonel I didn't crash this time and before our tour we were lucky enough to meet Jack Camp Dei I open [Laughter] [Applause] in England no it was now time to learn how the vines are pruned so that one side works one year and another side the other year you see here I have my principal Branch arm on this one on this side and this produced uh the the biggest part of the production this year normally so when all the leaves will go uh down uh will fall um I should uh keep one of these parts to do the next uh uh to one of these two uh uh arms to be the next production and and all all of that will disappear all of that sad and and this one it could be argued that the Oak Barrel is as important as the grape after the Vats the wine is moved into the Oak Barrel the Oak and how it is toasted is very important the number of the barrel the ca the maker are listed here above the sign of the wine maker but this Barrel is toasted by putting a heater inside and a medium toast or a heavy toast will make the wood taste differently and the bottom mark on the barrel tells you how much the oak has been toasted here is where the barrel is topped up every month to make sure there's no air inside the barrel barrels are kept for about 18 months then it's put back in the vet for a while and then reared this is the vineyard a wonderful piece of land raining slightly on a on a great day I'm sure is fantastic and there we get to taste these very special wines from a Class A Shadow one wine was a grand Cruise class the other wine was not okay let's get to S milon and this is where they used to do the laundry just below the church the largest church carved out of a single piece of stone in the whole of Europe but the church upset the locals and they went around and chopped the heads off all of the statues so this is why you see the heads missing of all the statues outside the monastery and the church and even some of the birds have had their heads chopped off famous story about s milon the ladies who found they couldn't get pregnant or wanted to get pregnant used to visit him in his cave and after sitting on a special rock they fell pregnant I guess that's how to get a sainthood the town originally began to develop around the bottom the lower end of the monastery and then after the 12th century it expanded to the higher level up above the monaster and that was the two-tier level of St amilon the cloysters here and the first part of the church are both 12th century the painting on the back wall done much later this is actually very new it's [Music] 2018 you see here some of the birds have also had their heads chopped off some of the statues inside the church have survived the church itself 12th century follows a romanist kind of design The Chapel at the end is newer that's medieval in Period almost the end of our tour for the day we leave the church and we're off for our third wine tasting and by the time we get there everybody is very happy see our previous champagne tour this is the mom champagne house the most northern Vineyards in France are where this wine comes from they used to use these great big barrels for the wine but now since 1990 they use stainless steel 25 kilm of these tunnels were carved between 1850 and 1910 to rest this champagne it rests for 3 years to get the flavor in a moment we'll switch the lights on and show you these old bottles of Champaign which date back from the 1890s they keep them here eventually they lose their bubbles but they turn into delicious very valuable bottles of wine yeah Discovery tour you get to smell the three different flavors which are inside the champagne and this is where some of the champagne is drunk the new kunard ship fun fact there are over 2,700 books in this Library so nearly enough for every person on board because the capacity is 3,000 just outside the Artisan Food Hall is the Panorama Pool Club so this is the Royal Court theater and it has about 835 seats beautiful theater just past the par is the bright light Society where you can take part in an immersive interactive show an evening of burlesque dance and immersive theater still on Deck 2 this is the Queen's room this is a very clever space this B room has a balcony around the top but as well as being a ballroom as it's in the round it can transform to having a club fi moving on a long deck to there's the chart room it's quite quiet in here during the day so it's a great place to come and sit and read this is the britania restaurant where we have our dinner and look how beautiful it is the full 18-minute tour is on the Doris visits Channel please hit the Subscribe button and share with your your friends and if you have time I'd love you to read cruise ship Heist the first of our cruise thrillers