You might want to think about
heading to Bordeaux next summer; the Ideal Wine Company recently learned that
the region’s new ‘Guggenheim of wine’ museum, will open in 2016.
Bordeaux wine-making
If France is the wine-making
capital of the world, Bordeaux is its crowning jewel. Boasting 60 appellations
and producing over two million Euros of wine every year, according
to The Wine Cellar Insider, Bordeaux is the largest wine maker in France.
Bordeaux vintages have developed
a reputation for excellence. The red grapes typically grown in the region,
which include Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot, are
used to produce some of the most spectacular bottles on the planet. You can buy a stunning range of
Bordeauxs from the Ideal Wine Company product list.
Guggenheim of wine
At this point the region is
practically synonymous with wine, which is why it came as no surprise when we
learned that Bordeaux will serve as the home of a new wine museum. The
Drinks Business reported that the museum, called the Cité du Vin wine
centre, will open on 2nd June, 2016.
The £58 million wine centre (80%
public funded, 20% private funded) was designed by French architects Nicolas
Desmazières and Anouk Legendre, from French architecture firm XTU. They created
a building that has been nicknamed the ‘Guggenheim of wine,” because it
resembles the famously avant-garde Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Cité du Vin
The centre has been designed to provide an
“immersive, interactive, multi-sensory experience” for roughly 450,000
visitors every year. It will feature 23 rooms that give visitors the chance to
go on “a tour of the vineyards of the world.” These rooms will house 85
exhibits, each devoted to a different wine-making country, to explain the
history behind the global wine trade.
The museum will also include a
wine bar and a wine shop, which will give you the opportunity to sample some of
the finest vintages Bordeaux has to offer. Furthermore it will feature a
panoramic restaurant on its seventh floor, so you can look out on the beautiful
French scenery as you sip your stunning Bordeaux red.
Buy a Bordeaux
This is why we suggested you
visit France next year – the Cité du Vin Wine Centre will provide you with
a holiday experience you’ll never forget. If you want to see why Bordeaux is
synonymous with wine, you might want to purchase
the Chateau Haut Brion 1996 from the Ideal Wine Company, today!
