Wines to pick up on a trip to France

So I’ve booked my holidays. And before you ask, yes, I’m basing it around food and wine. I’ll report back in July, but I thought readers might be interested in my plan should you be thinking about a similar holiday.

Early in 2019 I wrote about the new Cork to Santander ferry service but couldn’t get myself organised to try it out. The journey takes 26 hours-plus and is ‘economy class’ so has significantly less facilities than the Cork-Roscoff boat, Pont Aven, which is a bit of a floating palace. We couldn’t miss out on this little bit of luxury so we will travel Cork-Roscoff and drive through France to Spain, stopping in Muscadet, Bordeaux, Gascony and possibly the Basque country. Once we get to Spain we plan to visit around five wine regions and eventually return to Ireland via the Santander-Cork ferry. I’m not put off by the 26 hours as I’ve been on ‘economy’ Brittany Ferries boats to the UK and standards are relatively high.