Provence Wine Tours (Marseilles) #1 on TrpAdv.. Which location? Provence or Cassis Ba

[mikeysed]

Which 1 is better... Bandol & Cassis or Aix en Provence?

 

 

 

"Thank you for your email. We will be pleased to host you on a wine tour during your cruise stop in Marseilles on Monday September 28th, 2015.

 

Please find hereafter the program of the tour we will run that day with 2 people traveling on your ship. We have 6 spots available and you're welcome to join if you'd like.

 

Full-day wine tour around Bandol & Cassis:

- Departure/Return: 9am-4pm at the latest

- Pick up/drop off from your ship at the cruise pier in Marseilles - Look for someone holding a 'Provence Wine Tours' sign

- Visit & tastings to 2 wineries in the morning

- 1h30 free time to lunch and to visit the charming fishermen town of Cassis - on your own (not included in the price)

- Stop at Cape Canaille (high cliff on top of sea offering a beautiful panorama over Cassis)

- Price: 95€/person

- Prepayment required to confirm the booking

 

Price includes the visit & tasting fees, english-speaking wine guide, transportation in a comfortable A/C minivan.

Please note there will be other people joining this regular tour - little group of 8 persons max in total.

 

 

We could do the same program below or the program described below:

 

Full-day wine tour around Aix en Provence:

- Departure/Return: 9am-4pm at the latest

- Pick up/drop off from your ship at the cruise pier in Marseille - Look for someone holding a 'Provence Wine Tours' sign

- Visit & tastings to 2 wineries in the morning

- 2h free time to lunch and to visit the elegant city of Aix en Provence- on your own (not included in the price)

- Prepayment required to confirm the booking

 

If you'd like to book, thanks to tell me which tour you'd like to do (regular or private and the program if private) and to send me your 2, 4, 6 or 8 names and a cell phone number working while on cruise if possible.

I will then send you the corresponding payment request through our online secured payment system to finalize the booking.

 

Note: it is of course possible to split the payment - thanks to send me then the email adress of each "Paying person" - each person or couple will be responsible of their own booking.

Also, if you find some people on cruise critic interested in joining the tour, feel free to share my email address with them and I will handle their reservation directly with them.

 

Do not hesitate to ask should you have any question.

Kind regards,

Marion

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Marion Biju-Duval

Provence Wine Tours

 

 

 

 

Option 1 – Wine Tour around Aix-en-Provence

Available from Marseille & Toulon Ports

 

Immerse yourself in the beautiful wine regions of Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire & Côteaux d’Aix-en-Provence located at the foothills of the famous Sainte-Victoire mountain. With your wine guide, learn about these terroirs typicities : soil, climate, local grape varieties and about the winemaking process while visiting family-owned wineries and cellars. Discover the elegant city of Aix-en-Provence during your lunch break.

 

 

 

Option 2 – Wine Tour around Cassis & Bandol

Available from Marseille, Toulon, Sanary & Bandol Ports

 

Through the outstanding landscapes of Bandol & Cassis wine regions bordering the mediterranean sea, visit some typical wineries with its vineyards planted on terraces. Discover the characteristics of these areas and enjoy each tasting from the Cassis white wines to the Bandol rosé and red wines, widely praised by connoisseurs. Don’t miss the breathtaking view from Cape Canaille and the lunch free-time in the charming fishermen town of Cassis !

[Hlitner]

We do not think this is a "better" issue but rather one of your personal preference. You might want to give consideration to the fact that Cassis is a very small cute village wheras Aix is medium size city (over 140,000). So your preference of the smaller village vs larger city might influence your decision.

 

Hank

[marazul]

You might want to learn more about which wineries they plan to visit. Some are very scenic chateaux, some might be more farm like. This could affect your decision. A close reading of the TripAdvisor posts will give you an idea of the wineries visited. Most wine tour companies tend to have arrangements with a few vintners to take their clients to.

 

You could also consider a more traditional guided sightseeing tour visiting Aix and Cassis. You can enjoy the very fine wines from the region at lunch. Either a Bandol rose or a white Cassis.

[fabnfortysomething]

we used provence wine tours on a port trip from Toulon

we visited 3 wineries which were all small farm like locations

Cassis was a lunchtime visit and a very pretty fishing village

they also took us to a picturesque viewing point

my vote would be for a countryside tour as opposed to town based on our [admittedly] different itinery

[AngloinProvence]

Depends on your personal taste. The scenery around Cassis is more spectacular and Cassis itself is a charming (though very touristy) coastal fishing village. Aix is inland and a stunning and elegant medium-sized historic city.

 

No-one has mentioned the wines. Cassis is renowned for its crisp, lemony white wines, which are rarely available outside the area (it's a very small appellation). Bandol is famed for its reds.

 

The Aix wines, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly roses and much less special (although very tasty and drinkable on a hot day!) So, if you're a wine buff, I would definitely take the Cassis tour.