Great morning winetasting – We had a great time visiting two wineries in a morning, as well as driving through the Alsace countryside and having some time to explore the small towns. Great guide too.
EXPERIENCE THE MAGIC
of the French wine capital
A great selection of activities while in town
Wholly revitalized since its so-called “Sleeping Beauty” days, Bordeaux is now one of France’s liveliest cities. A capital of art and architecture, culture and wine in France, the city is located at just over 2 hours from Paris by high speed train. Classified UNESCO world heritage site in 2007, Bordeaux France is separated by the Garonne river into right and left bank and today there are endless ways to discover all that Bordeaux has to offer. If you’re curious about the city’s restored architecture, recent feats of urban planning and the history of this formerly rundown town, join us on a guided walking tour or a biking tour. Led by one of our certified tour guides, they will be eager to show you the essential Bordeaux sites to suit your interests. The most famous landmarks include the historical Golden Triangle, the Cathedral of Bordeaux as well as Place de la Bourse and most popular water mirror. A trip to Bordeaux is also a great occasion to participate in a wide variety of activities such as river cruises, a wine tasting bordeaux class, gourmet walking tours, cheese and wine pairing activity, a bordeaux bike wine tour or a visit to the brand new la Cité du Vin wine museum. We at Ophorus can adapt to your wishes and organize all these activities for you.
Wine tours and Wine Tastings beyond the city
If you’re itching to get out of the city, we offer a variety of private tours and shared small group tours of the bordeaux wine region and beyond. Our day trips include wine tasting tours to the famous st emilion wine region or medoc wine producing area that are known to produce some of the best red wines in the world. A typical half or full day wine tour from Bordeaux with Ophorus includes wine tastings and winery visits in carefully selected Grand Cru or Classified Growth Chateaus. These Bordeaux tours are often combined with sightseeing in the vineyards and villages such as the village of st emilion. We also organize fully adapted family friendly Bordeaux wine tours that have been carefully designed so that both parents and children enjoy their day out. After one of our day trips to a surrounding vineyard, bordeaux wine will have no more secrets for you. Other options include day tours to the Cognac and Armagnac regions famous for their brandy’s. On these tours we will take you to both famous and traditional distilleries.
Unique Sightseeing tours to awe-inspiring locations
If wine is not your thing but you’d still like to explore the region of Bordeaux beyond the city, we offer sightseeing excursions to the most important sites of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. One of our favorite and most popular excursion is the Arcachon bay full day tour. On this day trip, discover the Dune du Pyla, the tallest dune in Europe and hike to the top for breathtaking Atlantic ocean views. After the effort, savor great seafood in Arcachon town or Cap Ferret. During the day, visit a local oyster farm to enjoy a tasting of fresh oysters with a glass of white wine. Another most exciting tour is our Dordogne full day tour from Bordeaux. On this day trip you will experience the brand new Lascaux IV museum, visit beautiful medieval villages or towns and drive along the valley of the Dordogne or Vézère Rivers where so many prehistoric caves are located. If time permits ask your guide if a guided tour of Sarlat is feasible as this one of the most well preserved historical city center in France.
EXPLORE OUR SHARED TOURS DEPARTING FROM BORDEAUX
A full day tour to St Emilion, one of Bordeaux’s most famous appellations
Experience one of France’s most enchanting villages.
EXPLORE OUR PRIVATE TOURS DEPARTING FROM BORDEAUX
An exploration of three outstanding wineries on the right bank.
A full day journey through the Medoc wine region.
A unique pairing of wine and architecture in Bordeaux.
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KNOWLEDGABLE, CERTIFIED & LOCAL GUIDES
At Ophorus all our expert guides hold the WSET level 2 in Wines & Spirits, and our drivers are fully accredited and licensed guides.
THE BEST PERSONALIZED TOURS
Live the experience of your dreams with a personalised private tour, visiting France’s most unique areas with the local knowledge of your guide.
Excellent trip – Lovely area, well selected vineyards and Aude was an excellent guide. Highly recommended and one if the highlights of our trip.
Great experience and a lovely guide – With our very nice guide Daniele, a very well mixed group of members and some amazing wines, this trip was totally worth it.
Great wine tasting trip – A tour through beautiful country with a knowledgeable tour leader to visit wineries. Each winery had a range of tastings and a good discourse on the growing of the grape and the wine produced.
Wonderful Trip! – Our guide Bridgette and the tour was wonderful and a perfect amount of time (and wine)! We loved seeing little towns and sampling some of Alsace’s finest wines! Memories of a lifetime!
Don’t miss this tour!! – We had a great time on the Alsace wine route tour. Flo was very friendly, warm and entertaining! We all fell in love with the picturesque little villages along the way and of course the wine was spectacular!
Very informative and relaxed tour – Our guide was great and gave us ample time to tour and relax. She was very knowledgeable and stayed on time.
Wonderful tours in Bordeaux – During our stay in Bordeaux, we went on two wine tours. We enjoyed them a lot! My favorite was the tour of Margaux. Delphine is a sweet girl, she is a great tour guide!
Great tour to Medoc! – Highly recommend this tour, will do it again next time someone visits. Our guide was enthusiastic, funny and knowledgeable, and we learnt a lot at the château’s we visited.
Excellent!! – Very nice trip. Our guide Karim was very cool and showed a great knowledge about wines. The wineries visited were very good too!
Totally enjoyed the experience! – Found the tour guides to be knowledgeable and competent of the area and wineries. They were highly courteous and respectful.
Memorable Day – We had an awesome day with Marion, our guide. She was so incredibly knowledgeable and was a joy to spend the day with. It was like taking a prehistoric history class with a professor that students work their schedule around just to be in her class. We hung on her every word. A bonus was that she took us to a tiny village for lunch and we bought some food to eat at a picnic table along the Dodorgne River on a perfect “bluebird day”.
Fantastic tour company – We signed up for 2 tours. We went to see the Lascaux Caves and our guide was very knowledgable we liked the tour so much we decided to sign up for another tour. They do small tours in a van. We can’t recommend this tour company enough. If you are in Sarlat make sure to do a tour with them. Our guide also recommended restaurants and other interesting places to visit.
A great moment! – It was just a-ma-zing. A great moment with our very clever guide who learned us a lot of things. Thank you! Sarlat is a beautiful city and the castles are very interesting. We hope to come back very quickly because all the excursions seems to be amazing! I’m very lucky to chose this excursion and I say thank you to Ophorus!
Guide was great, best way to see the sights in this beautiful area. – We had no car while staying in Sarlat, but even if we had, it would be unlikely we would have seen all the sights our guide Marion drove us to in one day. The distances we covered were long, sometimes windy & very rural, so really needed to know the best route to squeeze in all the highlights. We would recommend considering the day tours Ophorus offers.
Perfect in every way! – Ophorus staff were helpful from the planning stage to the execution of our tours. We had a wonderful Guide (Florence). Her knowledge of history, local agriculture, politics, local issues and art was amazing. This area of France is so beautiful and a post card at every turn but coupled with an Ophorus tour it’s a wonderful experience. Thanks again Florence and Ophorus!
Very informative and relaxed tour – Our guide was great and gave us ample time to tour and relax. She was very knowledgeable and stayed on time.
Loved every minute of it! – We had a wonderful guide Delphine. She took very good care of us! It was great!
Loved every minute of it! – We had a wonderful guide Delphine. She took very good care of us! It was great!
Efficient and knowledgeable – Friendly, knowledgeable and efficiently organised. We loved the fact that Alain, our guide, was as excited about visiting the estates as we were. We have used them twice already and will certainly do so again.
Fantastic fun – Wonderful! everyone should experience it because there is no words to explain &our guide was very good educative fun co-operative.
Excellent day out with Adeline yesterday! – Her knowledge of speaking English was only surpassed by her extensive knowledge of her subject – Wine and vineyards!! We shared a joke, and lots of anecdotal history of the area, (all this whilst still driving really well).
Felt that our Chateau visits (3) were very special and personal. Absolutely sure we wouldn’t have got the same access if we had just tried to get in without the company.