Great Wine Capitals
The D2 (the ‘route des Châteaux’ or ‘Quality Stree’) is possibly the most famous road in the Bordeaux region, and driving up the D2 is like driving through a wine list. Passing one grand example of architecture after another, the road sweeps through the famous appellations of Médoc, Margaux, Saint Julien, Pauillac and Saint Estèphe. And most of these have great roadside restaurants.
The Great Wine Capitals (GWC) is an organisation that spans both the northern and southern hemispheres, the only such network to encompass the so-called Old and New World of wines. It exists to encourage wine tourism and business exchanges between internationally-renowned wine centres
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The Old and the New World of wine celebrated their most exciting visitor programmes with the announcement of the 2008 International Best of Wine Tourism Winners at a ceremony in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Oporto, Portugal. All winners are situated in the Great Wine Capitals, an association of world class wine cities: Bordeaux, Bilbao-Rioja, [...]
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