Cité du Vin
Golden, curving wine museum rising over the docks, tracing wine's culture and craft across the world.
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This guide to the Cite du Vin in Bordeaux opens with architect Anouk Legendre mid-sip at a tasting ceremony, the moment she and partner Nicolas Desmazieres finally found the shape for a museum they had been struggling to design for months. It follows how that glass of wine became the building's gold and glass tower, and why the team chose this stretch of riverbank, a few streets from the Chartrons, where English, Scottish, Irish and Flemish merchants built trading houses three centuries ago. You'll hear about the Johnstons, a trading family still in the business nine generations on. Look up at the tower's curve before you head inside.
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