When you hear the word Bordeaux your mouth waters and your nose fills with those various marvellous enjoyable fragrances and you will be carried away with the best beverage in the world… the wine of Bordeaux.
Here is the beginning of our great sailing adventure in the South of France. Here is the paradox of these waters frisking about, in the very heart of a world where vine reigns supreme.
Our history starts in Bordeaux, prettily named "Port de la Lune" (Harbour of the Moon), because of the sketch drawn by the river in its centre, and will come with us all along the river.
You will read it in the castles and palaces around: from the castle of "Vayres" built in the Middle Ages to the palace of "Louvières", an elegant, neo classical building erected during the Revolution.
You will see it in the vineyards that have generated an important international trade for centuries, and the growing progress of famous estates such as Château Yquem on the lands of Sauternes.
There is the environment, too, those beautiful landscapes with the Pyrénées as a background, far off mountains from where the river Garonne springs.
Everything, here, is passion and the sweet things of life and, Montesquieu, who used to enjoy and love this country so deeply, would not disagree. As he wrote: "In those places they create a powerful art of living".