Véronique Dargier de Saint Vaulry
Centre Equestre de Montcharlon 58 170 CHIDDES
Tel/Fax : 03 86 30 42 78
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Horse and wine!
What a great plan, especially when travel is made easier to combine those two pleasures.
20H00 at gare de Lyon in Paris, you will embark on the TGV train, which will take you to Le Creusot station in just 1H20.
Departure for Mercurey through the Charolais farmland and the first vineyard. In Rully, we’ll stop for our first tasting just before reaching our hotel in Fontaine. You won’t be asked to blow into the bag on horseback!
Chassagne-Montrachet is just a few hours horse ride away. The most prestigious white wine will be waiting for you there. In the afternoon, we will travel through splendid landscapes – result of the erosion on calcareous rocks - before discovering La Rochepot castle, where we’ll spend our second night.
Monday :
We will reach Pommard, via the hills overlooking the vineyards, for a timeless visit. We will visit Pommard castle where Napoleon, who was very fond of this vineyard, stayed. We will also visit the castle’s cellars, where the wine-making secrets will be partially unveiled, before tasting the local production.
After this tasting, we will head back to the hills to go round Beaune, which we’ll reach from the North.
A horseback visit is a must in the wines capital. Our horses will take the pavement streets of the old town, pass by the Hospices before heading toward the station. You will then say goodbye to your horses before getting on the 16H44 train to Paris Gare de Lyon via Dijon. Arrival in London at 22H28.