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Tain-l'Hermitage: A Wine Village on the Rhône
Less than an hour by train from Lyon lies a village overlooked by one of the most famous wine hills in France. The Hermitage appellation covers just 135 hectares and was ranked in the first class as early as 1816 - and yet the village below it pours free tastings with no appointment. I'll add the legend of the hermit and a tip on how to save with Crozes-Hermitage.
Saint-Émilion: A Wine Village Near Bordeaux
Fewer than two thousand locals and more than a million visitors a year - and even at the height of the season I had the lanes to myself. Saint-Émilion is a medieval wine village near Bordeaux with a church carved into the rock, cellars under the streets and a wine classification the châteaux keep fighting over in court. Here is what to see, what to taste and why it deserves at least two days.
La Cité du Vin: The Wine Museum in Bordeaux
The glass building on the bank of the Garonne is meant to suggest wine swirling in a glass - even if half the guidebooks call it a decanter. Inside La Cité du Vin you sniff your way through aromas trapped under glass domes, you click through videos in whatever order you like, and the tour ends with a glass of wine on the eighth-floor belvedere. In the shop I even came across a Moravian Pálava.