Experience the luxurious vinotherapy at the chateau hotel Les Sources de Caudalie in Bordeaux, France
A château near Bordeaux, in the French region of Aquitaine, offers tourists an opportunity...
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NARRATOR: Bordeaux, in France - about 50 kilometers away from the seaside there is a small chateau that is surrounded by vineyards. A Parisian businessman actually planned to make this estate his retirement home so he could fulfil his dream of producing his own wine. But then his wife discovered that she could make a fantastic cosmetic from the grape remains. It was the beginning of vinotherapy in France. Wellness that harnesses the power of grapes as it were. His prospective retirement villa was turned into a hotel with one of the most luxurious wellness centers in France. Guests come here to be pampered in a peaceful place, one where you can coincidentally also rid yourself of stress and wrinkles.
ALEXANDRA: "It is not easy to take the time. So we have to do that if we work a lot and, you know, if you have a family, children, you have to take care of other people all the time, I think you have to - sometimes you have to stop everything and say 'Ok, now I'll take the time for me.' And that's it, so that's what we do here."
NARRATOR: Nearly all guests at the chateau hotel Les Sources de Caudalie start their wellness therapy in a wine vat. The staff prepare a spa bath with highly concentrated grape extracts and grape seed oil that is supposed to work wonders at regenerating skin. Although some guests might have wished their wine bath to have a slightly higher alcohol content.
Even if guests don't get to bathe in wine, grapes are the core of all activity here. Grape seeds and skins are particularly prized as true wonder workers when it comes to warding off wrinkles. The scientific reason for this is that they contain a high concentration of polyphenols, which do actually keep skin from ageing. And with science that is applied as pleasurably as this you can bet no one who has indulged in wine and wellness here in Bordeaux will ever want to leave.
ALEXANDRA: "It is not easy to take the time. So we have to do that if we work a lot and, you know, if you have a family, children, you have to take care of other people all the time, I think you have to - sometimes you have to stop everything and say 'Ok, now I'll take the time for me.' And that's it, so that's what we do here."
NARRATOR: Nearly all guests at the chateau hotel Les Sources de Caudalie start their wellness therapy in a wine vat. The staff prepare a spa bath with highly concentrated grape extracts and grape seed oil that is supposed to work wonders at regenerating skin. Although some guests might have wished their wine bath to have a slightly higher alcohol content.
Even if guests don't get to bathe in wine, grapes are the core of all activity here. Grape seeds and skins are particularly prized as true wonder workers when it comes to warding off wrinkles. The scientific reason for this is that they contain a high concentration of polyphenols, which do actually keep skin from ageing. And with science that is applied as pleasurably as this you can bet no one who has indulged in wine and wellness here in Bordeaux will ever want to leave.