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Terra Aventura is a geocaching in the nature.
Duck and limousine cows breeding.
Visiting and tasting : for groups, appointment required.
At the heart of the south hills of Dordogne, with 57ha and plenty of medals, Château Court-les-Mûts will welcome you in its nice warehouses, its oenology laboratory and its wine museum. Meet and listen to the Sadoux family talk about wine and traditions while you will discover the art of tasting. Discover the peach and pear aromas of dry white wines, the exoticism of sweet wine, a rosé tasting like sweets, and intense red wines. Then, discover the quintessence of Saussignac coming from late harvests and early-maturing Semillon, that is to say a pretty rare wine!
Château La Brie is located at the heart of Bergerac vineyard, on Monbazillac hills, with 35 ha and 2 lands. Originally private, the estate was bought in 1962 by the towns of Bergerac and Monbazillac in order for the Ministry of Agriculture to establish an agricultural and viticultural high school.
The wine estate is a real pedagogical tool, facing economic and environmental realities, which enable the teaching of the future winemakers.
Since 2013, Château La Brie owns the level 3 of the HVE norm (high environmental value certification), which officially shows the environmentally friendly policies used on the exploitation: such as biodiversity, health strategy, fertilizer management and water resources management. Furthermore, it has been certified Organic Agriculture since 2013 on 12 ha.
Located on the banks of the Dordogne, between Bergerac
and Bordeaux, the Canoë Kayak Foyen country, welcomes you.
Delight your senses with a day or half day at an award winning organic and biodynamic vineyard estate that is also a certified WSET wine school.
Experience gourmet pairings like wine and chocolate, a half day with a wine and food pairing lunch, wine growing and winemaking, or a full day playing the winemaker. Reception of groups of upto 20 people and accommodation for 6 people in two luxury ecological gites.
Located between Bordeaux and Sarlat in Saussignac (20 mins west of Bergerac).
The place is inhabited by the Lambert family since the XIIIth century.
Domaine de Montlong is able to create unique wines thanks to its orientation on the hillside looking at the Dordogne valley and its traditional vinification methods.
Camper vans are welcomed.
Lodge on rent during high season (Gîte de France, Tourisme & Handicap labels)
The Plage des Bardoulets beach is supervised every afternoon from Tuesday to Sunday in July and August. It offers a wide range of leisure facilities: slide, swings, beach-volley pitch, wooded picnic area with tables...
Toilet facilities and a shower are available to bathers.
You can also choose between the sandy beach and grass in the shade of pine trees.
There are many parking spaces available for easy parking.
In the shade of a two-centuries-old cedar tree, Château Ladesvignes offers a panoramic view of Bergerac and the Dordogne Valley. Red, rosé and white wines, dry, sweet and dessert wines… discover and taste a full range, not forgetting grape juice for children and adults!
Véronique and Michel offer you: wine tastings, all year round, on weekdays - from May to September, audio tour (French - English) among the vines and in the cellars - every Thursday in July and August, wine tastings accompanied by cheese, with guided tours.
Family area for 3 generations and manage today by families and Métifet Garcia.
Bergerac Domaine dominates the valley on the slopes of Monbazillac.
It is possible to stay in our cottages or guest rooms for short or long stay.
Our property cultivates 70 hectares, has monbazillac dominance.
To discover our vineyard, we have created a path retracing the entire domain
A medieval château with its private 16th century chapel and a half-timbered dovecote on columns,in the midst of a two acre park.
A vineyard sitting on a well drained limestone-clay plateau overlooking the Dordogne riverwhere can be found the traditional Bordeaux grape varieties : Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc for AOC Bergerac reds ; Semillon and Sauvignon for AOC dry Bergerac white and sweet Saussignac. The vineyard has a strict policy of not using any herbicide. Our wines are the true expression of an exceptionnal terroir.
Little 12-ha-property overlooking at the beautiful Dordogne valley, Château le Tap is located on an old quarry site registered in Napoleonic cadaster, in the place called “Tas de pierre” (i.e. pile of stones) shortened as “au Tap”. This is a excepcional terroir with clay-limestone soils.
There are 5,000 vines in each hectare, constituted by 50% of white grape varieties (Sauvignon, Sauvignon Gris, Sémillon, Muscadelle et Chenin), and 50% of red grape varieties (Merlot, Cabernet franc,cabernet Sauvignon et Malbec), they have a great exposure on the hills. Our culture method is organic since 2007, certified in 2010, respecting terroir’s balance, without pesticides nor fertilizers.
Dive in the memory of Château Bélingard and discover a land named by the Celts as the “Sun Garden”.
Beyond an exceptional terroir, Château Bélingard has a true history content. At the heart of the appellations of Bergerac and Monbazillac, the vineyard stands on clay-limestone soils.
The Domaine de Pécoula and its characteristic values exist for 3 generations. Their key words are work, good sense, and constant searching of an irreproachable quality.
By coming to the estate, you will experience a simple, authentic and friendly welcome with the comments of the winemakers, from the grape to the bottle. You will taste Monbazillac, highly awarded, as well as Bergerac rosé, dry, soft and Côtes de Bergerac.
Located 10km away from Bergerac at the south, the property is surrounded by vines from different grape varieties (Sauvignon, Sémillon, Merlot, Cabernet) and it is near the Château de Bridoire that you should visit if you are around!
You will also be close to the Bastides of Périgord.
Organic agriculture since 1989, belonging to the Nature and Progress appellation, I make sure my vineyard respects the lands, its biodiversity, by enjoying fauna and flora wealth to have the best of the land.
On an abundant energy soil, the vine draws everything it needs to produce the best grapes as possible. Once they are picked, they reveal all their aromas and of course the land’s wealth.
I am a farmer and a winemaker not a sorcerer’s apprentice!
After harvesting by hand, the wines in my warehouses are honest and authentic.
Every vintage is a reflection of the year. Each one of them tells a story.
Terra Aventura is a geocaching in the nature.