Lire cet article en français : Passion Saint-Émilion, dans la vinothèque secrète. Part of the Bordeaux Confidentiel team spent a morning at Passion Saint-Émilion, the winegrowers' cooperative of the right bank, invited by Gilles Blanchard and Marielle Masquefa, head...

An old 1870 mill planted in the middle of Château Lagüe vineyard, a jaw-dropping view over Saint-Émilion, Pomerol and Lussac, a generous bistronomic cuisine and a painter-owner who signs his own wine labels. We spent an evening at Magnus La Table, 5 minutes from Libourne. Verdict.

Twenty minutes from Bordeaux, on the Fronsac heights above the Dordogne, a medieval fortress hides 25 kilometres of underground galleries, an underground river and 1,200 years of history. First part of our series on one of the right bank’s most fascinating places.