In the afternoon we visited the beautiful town of St. Emilion, arguably the most pictoresque town of the entire region of Bordeaux. It is not an easy town to walk so our cruise director had setup 2 walking courses (normal vs. easy). I opted for the esay as my foot/heel was still giving me trouble.  Over the next 4 hours we drove to St. Emilion, walked the streets, stopped to take pictures, had some wine in a nice wine shop, took a pretty little open train like bus through the vineyards of some of the great wineries of St. Emilion to finally stop at Chateau Soutard for a brief tour and tasting. At Soutard we tasted 3 wines: 2013 Les Jardins de Soutard (their 2nd label wine), the 2013 Chateau Soutard and the 2003 Chateau Soutard. While the first 2 offered an rather elegant portrayal of fruit and round complexity, the 2003 failed miserably as it portrayed all the faults of the vintage itself. 2003 was a very hot year. I remember being here during Vinexpo (June) and the temperature easily reached in the mid 40's. The 2003 showed off pruny, raisinny character with too high alcohol and green, vegetal araomas from the % of cabernet franc.