Decision
Pierres Dorées or the Crus: Which Beaujolais to Taste
The golden-stone south or the ten crus of the north: soils, villages, whites, half days and which half suits your first visit.
Beaujolais Wine Travel Guides
These are the long reads for the choices you make before you book. Should you taste the golden-stone Pierres Dorées in the south, or the crus of the north? How does a day from Lyon run, hour by hour? Can you taste without a tour, what does each fare pour, and what changes when the Nouveau arrives? When you are ready to choose, compare the wine tasting tours in beaujolais side by side.
Start with Pierres Dorées or the crus if you have not picked a half yet, or with the prices guide if your budget is fixed. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
The Beaujolais in One Day from Lyon: Hour by Hour
What time you leave, where you taste, where lunch happens and when you are back in Lyon, on three different days in the vines.
On your own
Beaujolais Wine Tasting Without a Tour: What Works Alone
The train, a hire car, the Oingt tasting room and a blind tasting in Lyon, told honestly, with what a tour still does better.
Prices
Beaujolais Wine Tour Prices in 2026: What Each Fare Pours
Every fare side by side: the tastings, lunch, per person or per group, what a couple or four friends pay, and the price per wine.
Seasonal
Beaujolais Nouveau and the Harvest: A Wine Traveller's Autumn
Nouveau on Thursday 19 November 2026, the harvest, the winter day by vintage Defender, and the weather from September to December.
The shared days from Place Bellecour are on beaujolais wine tour from lyon, the days for your party alone on private beaujolais tours, and every tour on Beaujolais Tours.