Adventure

Amboise: Caves Ambacia Visit and Wine Tasting

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68 reviews

Activity provider: Caves Ambacia
Adventure

Amboise: Caves Ambacia Visit and Wine Tasting

Activity provider: Caves Ambacia
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Tease your 5 senses at Les Caves Ambacia, wine merchants since 1874. Discover 16th century troglodyte caves dug in limestone. Tour the wine collection and taste 3 wines with a sommelier. Opt to pair your wine with food, if you wish.

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Duration 75 minutes
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Live tour guide
Esperanto, French, English
Wheelchair accessible
Small group
Limited to 10 participants

Experience

Highlights
  • Feel your senses come alive on a sensorial tour of Les Caves Ambacia winery
  • Explore 150 years of wine history and discover a vintage wine collection
  • Sample 3 wines with a sommelier
  • Pair your wine with some food, if option selected
Full description

Discover the original wines and matured vintages on offer at the house Duhard, founded in 1874. Visit their 16th-century troglodyte caves facing the Loire near the historical center of Amboise and enjoy a wine tour experience in 2 parts. First, awaken and stimulate your 5 senses and learn more about wine on the Sensorial tour. Then, travel through 150 years of wine history on the Vintages Odyssey tour of  Les Caves Ambacia (formerly Les Caves Duhard) wine collection. Follow your tour with a tasting of 3 wines with a sommelier, with an optional food and wine pairing also available. After, enjoy the delicatessen boutique and purchase wines with shipping available worldwide. Tours in English take place at 12 PM, 2 PM, and 4 PM. Tours in French take place at 11 AM, 3 PM, and 5 PM.

Includes
  • Wine tour with Sensorial Experience, the Vintage Odyssey, and Sommelier Wine Tasting (3 wines)
  • Food pairing (if option selected)
  • Gratuities
  • Personal expenses

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Les Caves Duhard. Please arrive at the meeting point 10 minutes before the activity starts.

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  • Please arrive at the meeting point 10 minutes before the activity starts
  • Tours in English take place at 12 PM, 2 PM, and 4 PM
  • Tours in French take place at 11 AM, 3 PM, and 5 PM
Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.5 /5

based on 68 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.7/5
  • Value for money
    4.5/5
  • Service
    5/5
  • Organization
    5/5

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Super fun! Learned more about the history of this local wine growing area. The presentation was innovative and used large posters and video displays to create an informative and interactive approach to winemaking in this region. Our host spoke English clearly and was always understandable.

March 27, 2023

What a brilliant tour, we knew nothing about wines and learned so much that now we can appreciate the good "stuff". Our guide was the winery owner and he was great, he had a wonderful sense of humour and was so enthusiastic about his wines and taught us a lot. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone if you want to learn about wines or even if you know a lot about them as the tasting part was fantastic.

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March 27, 2023

Excellent tour of the caves as well as lesson from a sommelier in understanding and enjoying wines. The tour included some interesting videos of wine in the Loire Valley over the past century: very informative. And then the wine tasting itself was enjoyable and educational with food pairing addition.

March 27, 2023

Product ID: 279552