Best area in Bordeaux to stay

Bordeaux is an okay city, but probably not worth worth a week. I would look at a map of the Bordeaux wine region and select a place to stay in those areas. Google Bordeaux wineries map and go from there.

I wouldn't want a week in Bordeaux. I did attend the wine festival there mid June 2018. I'd suggest trying to be there then. They had tall ships on the river, more than 100 wines for tasting and various musician, dance, singing groups all the time. They also had a great fireworks show at night.

I'd stay as near the center as possible. They have a couple tram lines and a handful of bus routes to get in and out of the center. They stop running at 9 - which is earlier than most people finish dinner when they eat out. There were supposed to be buses running later, for the festival, but I never figured out where to find a schedule? I usually waited at a bus stop an inordinate amount of time before giving up and walking.

I'm not really a fan of Bordeaux wines. I much prefer Burgundy. Bordeaux has too much of a mineral flavor for me (I'm the same for Rioja). I only found a couple I really liked. I now have a theory you can test. All the Bordeaux I really liked had a person's name on the label (not a celebrity name, catchy name or winery name). Test it and let me know if you think it's a good theory.

I agree that a week might be too long.

We stayed near this address: 38 Rue Bouffard, 33000 Bordeaux, France...and within walking distance to many things: restaurants, fountains, shopping, a wine tour we bought via Viator (to head out to St. Emillion). Lovely town...a few days is good.