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Hotel Chateau de Mercuès, Cahors

One of Cahors’ top wine chateaux is the Chateau de Mercuès, which is also a top class Michelin restaurant and hotel – the barrel-ageing cellar is under the hotel and is sometimes used for functions – such as a wedding breakfast of bread and Cahors wine!!
Owned by one of the top Cahors wine families – [...]

Stay on a vineyard in Cahors

There are numerous options for getting closer to the wines of Cahors (46 Lot, Midi-Pyrenees), with their predominance of the Malbec grape (known locally as Auxerrois or Cot). Several domaines offer either Bed and Breakfast (Chambre d’Hote) or gites to rent.
Chateau les Grauzils at Prayseau sac – gite
Chateau Haut Monplaisir at Lacapelle-Cabanac – Cathy et [...]

Cahors AC wines

The wines of Cahors (Lot Valley, South West France)
CAHORS has been a favourite of ours since the beginning of our interest in wine. The Lot, south of the more crowded Dordogne, is both dramatic and scenic – and the vineyards are very evident – along the valley west of the attractive town of Cahors [...]