St-Emilion is a beautiful town surrounded by city walls with fascinating Romanesque churches and ruins stretching all along steep and narrow streets. The town of Saint Emilion is the focal point of the vineyards and wineries on the “right bank” in Bordeaux. Wine making here goes back to the 2nd century when Romans planted the first vineyards in the region. St-Emilion exported a lot of wine to England in the 1600 and 1700s.

Saint-Emilion is a key wine town in the Libournais district of Bordeaux, important in terms of both quality and quantity. It lies just a few miles north of the Dordogne, in the final stages of the river's journey from the hills of the Massif Central hills to the Gironde estuary. The town is renowned as much for its beautiful buildings and scenery as for its wine. Its steep, narrow, cobbled streets, overlooked by its Romanesque church and the iconic 13th-century Tour du Roy tower are a reminder of the town's long history.

There have vineyards around Saint-Emilion since Roman times, and today the Saint-Emilion wine appellation is one of the most prolific in the Bordeaux region, generating more than 250,000 hL of wine each vintage. It is also responsible for some of the most prestigious, long-lived and expensive wines in the world; Chateaux Cheval Blanc, Ausone, Angelus, Figeac and Pavie, whose wines sell for hundreds of dollars per bottle, are all situated in and around Saint-Emilion.