We were in Dijon in March and we took the France guidebook’s advice and hired Colette Barbier to give us an all day tour of the regions near Dijon. What a tour it was! We pride ourselves on our wine knowledge, but Colette helped us not only realize we didn’t know that much, but also filled in essential steps and tools when tasting wine. Her knowledge is so vast that we could tour again with Colette and learn many more things. She’s a wonderful guide and very kind. We highly recommend taking a wine tour with her!!
Ron
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TX, USA
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Ron, sounds like a lovely day. Do you mind sharing how much it was? And sharing a little more about your trip and how the day fit?
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OP
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Happy to provide more details.
Our tour started at 9:30 when Colette met us at our apartment in Dijon. She is licensed to drive tour persons cars, so she drove our rental to show around. Much better for us as we are not having to fry our brains with directions. You are driving thru medieval villages, so roads are narrow and there’s lots of quirky issues on the roads. Our tour cost $350 each for 2 people. That did not include lunch, but we went to a great family owned bistro outside of Dijon and was great, perfectly reasonable cost, Colette paid for her lunch. I think our cost was approximately 35 euros for our portion.
We visited 3 excellent wineries, all family owned and on the small production end of the scale. Our your ended at 6pm. There was so much we did, that it would be hard to list it all. We stopped up at the Romanee Conti Vineyard and many other historic and important sites.
Best,
Ron
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TX, USA
5139 posts
Thank you very much. I have not yet been to this area (on my “eventual” list), but am never interested in trying to transport myself on a wine tour.
This was your first post (welcome to the forum) so you may not know we have a whole section for Trip Reports, meant to help future travelers. So all the information is most welcome - I hope you’ll hang around and post more!