Cité du Vin increases its commitment to the ecological transition
Already holding NF environment - Visitor sites and CSR Sustainable Entertainment certification, the Cité du Vin is continuing to make its mark as a committed player in culture and tourism by going even further to make its activities as environmentally friendly as possible. With the development of a CSR (corporate social responsibility) policy, participation in CEC NA – Convention des entreprises pour le climat (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), performing a carbon audit, raising awareness, recycling, etc., the Foundation for Wine Culture and Civilisations (which manages and develops the Cité du Vin) is stepping up its move towards more sustainable and responsible activity.
The return of Via Sensoria, the Sensory tasting journey at the Cité du Vin!
The Sensory tasting journey Via Sensoria makes its return to the Cité du Vin! After a successful first edition, this original and intimate journey, in which sensory experiences and tastings meet in the heart of unique dreamlike spaces, returns from 26 March to 3 November. Sessions in French, English and Spanish will be offered every day to visitors to the Cité du Vin, who will be invited by Via Sensoria to take a unique sensory journey As the seasons pass. Several new features have been added for the 2024 edition, including elements of sophrology to help explore these feelings even more deeply, a new selection of drinks to taste (wines and alcohol-free) and the addition of olfactory objects for each season. An activity accessible to all, including families and those who may not be wine lovers, to be discovered soon in Bordeaux!
Cité du Vin: positive results for visitor numbers in 2023 and a committed road map in place for 2024
The Cité du Vin welcomed 385.000 visitors from nearly 100 different nationalities in 2023. These numbers are representative of very positive visit-levels, very close to those in 2022, even though the site was closed for an entire month for the renewal of the Permanent Exhibition. By the end of 2023, the Cité du Vin had welcomed more than 2.7 million visitors since it opened, boosted its appeal to foreign visitors - who account for more than half of the total number - and attracted a steady stream of locals to its cultural events. The new range of cultural events offered over the past 12 months has met with a very receptive audience. Bolstered by this success, the Cité du Vin now wants to strengthen its CSR policy to offer visitors an activity that is just as popular, but even more sustainable and responsible.
Via Sensoria, the sensory tasting journey, is back in 2024
The Sensory tasting journey Via Sensoria returns from 26 March at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux. After a successful first edition, this original and intimate tasting experience, allowing visitors to discover wines from around the world or alcohol-free drinks in unique dreamlike spaces, will once again be open to visitors to the Cité du Vin until 3 November. An artistic and digital creation designed by GEDEON Programmes and scenographer Sylvain Roca at the request of the Foundation for wine culture and civilisations, Via Sensoria takes visitors on an original sensory journey, As the seasons pass. There are some new features for this 2024 edition (choice of drinks, staging layout, etc.). An activity accessible to all, to be (re)discovered in 2024
After more than a month of work, the Cité du Vin is opening the doors of its new Permanent Exhibition to the public on Saturday 4 February 2023. For the first time since the opening of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux in 2016, the Permanent Exhibition has been extensively redesigned and modified to include new staging, digital equipment and multimedia content. This large-scale project is part of an overall programme to renew the cultural offer at the Cité du Vin, providing visitors with an ever-more original and unforgettable experience.
2022 review: 391,000 visitors welcomed to the Cité du Vin
The Cité du Vin welcomed 391,000 visitors of 93 different nationalities in 2022. These visitor numbers are close to those seen by the Cité du Vin before the Covid-19 crisis. With 391,000 visitors in 2022 and the milestone of 2 million visitors since opening reached in the spring, the Cité du Vin confirms its appeal to French and international visitors and remains one of the unmissable attractions of a stay in Bordeaux. It is precisely to maintain its appeal that the Foundation for Wine Culture and Civilisations initiated a major project in 2022 to renew the cultural offer at the Cité du Vin, with the results to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
Picasso and wine: an exhibition to be presented in 2022 at the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux
Picasso and wine, the fifth temporary exhibition at the Cité du Vin, will be dedicated to one of the greatest artists of the 20th century: Picasso. A first in Bordeaux! This exceptional exhibition will be presented from 15 April to 28 August 2022.
The Cité du Vin is creating the unmissable event of spring 2022 in Bordeaux, devoting a major exhibition to one of the most important artists of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. Picasso, the effervescence of shapes, running from 15 April to 28 August 2022, explores the place of wine and popular spirits in the work of Pablo Picasso, through a wide variety of media (paintings, drawings, ceramics, films, etc.).
