Did Jay-Z and Beyoncé travel through Bordeaux aboard the legendary Orient-Express train this weekend? The story seems totally surreal, and yet the most famous couple in the music industry spent the weekend in the Bordeaux region, several photos having circulated on social networks.
The two international stars would have come to spend the weekend in the region to celebrate the 54th birthday of the New York rapper. And to do this they would have taken the Orient-Express, revealed Monday evening the newspaper The Resistantafter having filmed the famous train at Libourne station a little before 6 p.m.
According to our information, Jay-Z and Beyoncé were indeed “guests of LVMH”, now owner of the Venice Simplon Orient-Express (VSOE)after having bought in 2019 the British group Belmond which operates the train.
Two very notable stops in Bordeaux and Libourne
Earlier in the day, at exactly 12:40 p.m., the Orient-Express had already made a fifteen-minute stop at Saint-Jean station in Bordeaux, before leaving at 12:54 p.m. towards Marmande, reveals on his side South West. Only the train staff (chefs, stewards, musicians, etc.) were able to board, and they remained silent as to its occupants, continues the daily. In any case, the train did not go unnoticed in Bordeaux, especially since the South-West of France is obviously not part of its usual journeys, which usually take it to Venice, Vienna, Budapest or even Istanbul.
The Venice Simplon Orient-Express, however, is not the “original” Orient-Express, but a luxury train created in 1982 by James Sherwood. Launched in 1883, the Orient-Express has not been operated since the end of the 1970s. The brand is now owned by SNCF, which is carrying out a project to revive the original luxury train.
Tasting of Petrus 1969
The journey, in VSOE therefore, in Bordeaux started on Sunday for the two stars and a few happy fewwho visited the region for tastings of great wines, notably Petrus 1969, the year of the singer’s birth.
We also see him on social networks, glass of red wine in hand, in the park of a wine estate. Speculation is rife as to the property in question. They were only able to go “to Yquem or Cheval Blanc”, two properties of the LVMH group, we are still told. Château d’Yquem, the famous Premier Grand Cru Supérieur Classé 1855 from Sauternes, or Cheval-Blanc, the Premier Grand Cru Classé A in Saint-Emilion, can indeed correspond. “More like Cheval Blanc,” says another source. When contacted, neither property wished to communicate.