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Travel & Culture: The Bordeaux Wine Region

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The world’s finest wines, sweeping vineyards and fine food couple with a river valley dotted with castles. We sample the best Bordeaux then cruise the lovely Dordogne and Lot rivers with stops at chateaux, ancient watermills, and perched villages.

The wine regions of Bordeaux are a large number of wine growing areas, differing widely in size and sometimes overlapping, which lie within the overarching wine region of Bordeaux, centred on the city of  Bordeaux  and covering the whole area of the  Gironde  department  of  Aquitaine.

The Bordeaux region is naturally divided by the Gironde Estuary into a Left Bank area which includes the Médoc and Graves and a Right Bank area which includes the Libournais, Bourg and Blaye. The Médoc is itself divided into Haut-Médoc (the upstream or southern portion) and Bas-Médoc (the downstream or northern portion, often referred to simply as “Médoc”).

Homes, Travel, Videos, Views

2021 Views: Top 5 Most Viewed Homes In France

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2021 is nearly at its end so we thought we would share with you, before starting a fresh new year of great properties and videos, the ones that you have the most viewed this year.

1 – Impressive château with numerous outbuildings (Ref.: 105225DCO86) Link to the property page on our website: https://www.frenchestateagents.com/fr… Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/GtTJUJm_WSk

2 – Spacious 18th-Century home with walled garden (Ref.: 118505ELI89) Link to the property page on our website: https://www.frenchestateagents.com/fr… Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/dNSn87lI7o4

3 – Rare 12th-Century restored Abbaye in Charente (Ref.: 118465SPO16) Link to the property page on our website: https://www.frenchestateagents.com/fr… Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/r4ZBG1bpYWU

4 – Peaceful country house in the heart of the Dordogne (Ref.: A05137) Link to the property page on our website: https://www.frenchestateagents.com/fr… Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/NzjHntlG2M4

5 – Provencal stone Mas near the Medieval village of Grimaud (Ref.: 117336MMA83) Link to the property page on our website: https://www.frenchestateagents.com/fr… Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/fEWrC0lr_x0

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Cliff Home Tour: La Roque Gageac In France (Video)

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Julien Cohen’s first home was carved into the side of a hill in La Roque Gageac, a troglodytic village stacked against a sheer cliff. He spent 5 years in this sliver of a home where the stone face is everywhere: as the ceiling of his closet and shower, behind the refrigerator, and in the wall looming over the bed. During the Hundred Year’s War,

La Roque Gageac, was one of the few towns that never fell to the English, thanks to a fort perched on the cliff at the top of town whose only access is a tiny staircase (It still stands). The views from the cliff are panoramic perspectives on the Dordogne River and surrounding castles; this is an area Henry Miller called the “Frenchman’s paradise”. Here, Cohen lived for five years until his growing family made the small space too difficult.

La Roque Gageac is one of France’s most beautiful villages. In a stunning position on the north bank of the Dordogne River, and backed by a steep hill / cliff, with little to suggest that much has changed there in the last 300 years, La Roque-Gageac is truly the perfect picture postcard village. It is about 8km from the historic town of Sarlat.

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Tours: The ‘Château de Montastruc’, Dordogne, Southwest France (Video)

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Château de MontastrucThis splendid residence, the Château de Montastruc, is registered in its entirety as a Historical Monument. It is ideally positioned on a rocky promontory, and combines grandeur and simplicity, character and serenity, history and modernity. An ancient troglodyte site and fortress built during its 1500 years of history, the Château de Montastruc in Périgord is today a large and luminous family home and a warm haven of peace, close to major tourist sites of the Dordogne.

Château de Montastruc is offered in its entirety for seasonal rental and can comfortably accommodate up to twenty people for a romantic and perfect holiday in a large residence. It’s an ideal location for beautiful family occasions, holidays with friends, notable events, or a French wedding, the château can be yours for a whole week with daily service. Ten rooms and many common rooms on more than 1,000 square meters, a pool of 15 x 6 meters, a large park and forests are at your disposal.

The Périgord is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne département, now forming the northern part of the Aquitaine région. It is divided into four areas called the Périgord Noir, the Périgord Blanc, the Périgord Vert and the Périgord Pourpre.