Tasting & Lunch At Chateau Rosseau

Delight in refined Château Rousseau de Sipian, a Renaissance-style manor overlooking the Gironde estuary, on this visit with lunch and a wine tasting. You’ll marvel at the striking estate, which is surrounded by an enchanting park and a 15-acre vineyard that produces cabernet sauvignon, merlot and petit verdot grapes. Discover the château was built in 1850, but its graceful style harkens back to the Renaissance, which is reflected in the building’s elegant symmetry, cone-shaped spires and sloping gray roofs. You’ll learn the manor’s combined name reflects the union of prominent 19th-century vintners Marie Bert, owner of the Domaine de Sipian, and Guillaume Rousseau, who ran Domaine Frêche, and that over the decades the estate has changed hands many times, counting among its diverse owners a French railway company and an aircraft manufacturing entrepreneur. After touring the château’s cellars, you’ll be treated to an enticing wine tasting followed by lunch in the well-appointed dining room. Spoil yourself in the lap of luxury on this step back to a more genteel time.

• Wear casual, weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes.
• Bring a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen.