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The vineyard owners welcome you in with open arms and at no point did we feel pressured to buy the wines we tasted. If you let on your ignorance, rather than sneering, most owners proudly launch into a long presentation about their wines, their grapes and their history.

If you are on a budget, going around Bordeaux and France’s other wine regions is probably the best way to taste wines that usually you wouldn’t be able to afford.

The tourist centre is amazingly helpful and will provide you with all the maps, routes, or any other information you might need.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/23099 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/22589
Taking shelter in one of the Oxfam shops we found some rubber overalls with elasticated arms and legs and hoods. I'm not sure what they're meant for, maybe chemical spills, but we bought them and oh, what a joy. Warm, wipe clean and waterproof, we could sit anywhere, lie in the mud, dance in the rain, and be clean and dry when we took them of at the end of the day.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/22589