Best Wine Bars & Tasting Rooms in Bordeaux City Center parisunlocked.com

These are the best places for wine tasting in Bordeaux, from superb city-center wine bars to museums and local tasting rooms.

A few years ago, I spent a little under six weeks living and working in Bordeaux, as I prepared to write a local guide. Like almost everyone, I knew coming in that the capital of the Gironde region was a wine powerhouse. But green as I was, it took me a day or so to figure out that your typical, rustic cellar tastings were almost exclusively something to pursue outside the city walls.

And since I spent most of my time within them, I became almost fixated on the following task: finding the best places to taste excellent wine in Bordeaux