There’s an outdoor pool, dining terrace plus one room can be a self-catering apartment. 5 Lasserre is a large country house in the St Emilion area, with contemporary-style rooms set against stripped floorboards and exposed-stone walls.Interiors are cool, light and spacious with a modern country-house feel mixing antiques and contemporary pieces, and all set against pale walls and stripped floorboards. On the edge of St Emilion town, Le Pavillon is a luxury B&B in a handsome pale-stone villa.The result is an elegant yet relaxed feel, plus there’s a small pool and garden. In the St Emilion region, the 18th-century manor house of Clos 1906 sets cool, contemporary furnishings against the house’s classical original features.The chateau has a large pool, wide terrace and romantic outside dining. On the banks of the Garonne and just 15 minutes from the centre of Bordeaux (water-taxi available), Chateau Grattequina is a handsome 19th-century chateau with light, contemporary-style rooms.One room is offered as a self-catering apartment. Interiors are stylishly chic with stripped-wood floors, panelled walls in Farrow and Ball colours, and bold modern art. For a town-based stay, La Chartreuse des Eyres, in Podensac in the Graves and Sauternes wine regions, is an excellent-value ‘petit chateau’.
There’s also a pool and glorious views over the surrounding vineyards. Interiors are cool and colonial in style, some bedrooms with exposed-stone walls, and an effective mix of antiques and more contemporary fabrics. Also offering good value for money is Chateau de la Grave, a turreted affair dating back to medieval times.There are wine-tastings of its 300-year-old vineyard, plus a large outdoor pool. The handsome Le Clos de Meyre offers excellent value for money with just eight, light and traditionally furnished rooms.
The hosts offer vineyard tours and cellar-tastings. The three rooms, with their wooden floorboards and floral fabrics, have a country-house feel, plus there’s a beautiful exposed-stone kitchen for hearty breakfasts.
The handsome Chateau Giscours is a classical 19th-century building of pale stone, terraces and large shuttered windows.As well as a small spa and outdoor pool, there’s a terrace and gardens plus far-reaching views over vineyards. The adults-only Chateau du Palanquey offers just five large and sophisticated rooms that cleverly mix contemporary and vintage pieces.After dinner in nearby St Emilion, return to a nightcap from the well-stocked cellar. Bedrooms are boldly decorated with themes such as Out of Africa and French country house. Also with a pool, Le Relais de Franc Mayne is a substantial sandstone house surrounded by its vineyards.Tours of their small surrounding vineyard can be arranged by the friendly hosts, plus there’s a pool for a refreshing dip. The fairytale Chateau de Pitray, near St Emilion, with its towers and turrets and creeper-covered pale stone, has just four rooms, elegant with antiques and beautiful garden views.We’ve picked out some of the best wine hotels in Bordeaux – including chateaux, luxury hotels and those on vineyards. There are walks, bird-watching and the port city of Bordeaux, with its flourish of elegant buildings, modern museums (including, yes, a wine museum) and a revamped dockside, to explore. Staying in one of Bordeaux’s wine hotels is surely the best way to learn, sample and appreciate these heady wines. This region in south-west France, and centred on the rivers Gironde, Garonne and Dordogne, produces some of the world’s greatest wines, including clarets such as Pomerol and St-Emilion. Mention the word Bordeaux and even the least knowledgeable wine-lover sits up.
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